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Mel Gibson

March 16, 2024

This article is about the actor. For the basketball player and coach, see Mel Gibson (basketball).

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson[3] AO (born January 3, 1956[4]) is an American actor and film director. He is known for his action hero roles, particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post-apocalyptic action series Mad Max and as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop action-comedy film series Lethal Weapon.

Mel Gibson

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Gibson in 2016
Born
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson

(1956-01-03) January 3, 1956 (age 68)
Peekskill, New York, U.S.
Citizenship
EducationNational Institute of Dramatic Art (BFA)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • film director
  • producer
Years active1976–present
WorksFull list
Spouse
Robyn Moore
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(m. 1980; div. 2011)​
Partner(s)Oksana Grigorieva (2009–2010)
Rosalind Ross (2014–present)
Children9, including Milo
Parent
RelativesDonal Gibson (brother)
Eva Mylott (grandmother)
AwardsFull list

Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia, when he was 12 years old. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he starred opposite Judy Davis in a production of Romeo and Juliet. During the 1980s, he founded Icon Entertainment, a production company, which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called "an alternative to the studio system".[5] Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the World War I drama Gallipoli (1981), which earned Gibson a Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute.[6] In 1985, Gibson was named as People magazine's first Sexiest Man Alive.[7]

In 1995, Gibson produced, directed, and starred in Braveheart, a historical epic, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the Academy Award for Best Director, and the Academy Award for Best Picture. He later directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a biblical drama that was both financially successful and highly controversial. He received further critical notice for his directorial work of the action-adventure film Apocalypto (2006), which is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century.

After several legal issues and controversial statements leaked to the public, Gibson's popularity in Hollywood declined, affecting his careers in acting and directing.[8] His career began seeing a resurgence with his performance in Edge of Darkness (2010) and Jodie Foster's The Beaver (2011). His directorial comeback after an absence of 10 years, Hacksaw Ridge (2016), won two Academy Awards,[9][10] and was nominated for another four including Best Picture and Best Director for Gibson, his second nomination in the category.

Early life

Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, of Irish descent, the sixth of 11 children, and the second son of Hutton Gibson, a writer, and Irish-born Anne Patricia (née Reilly, died 1990).[11][12] Gibson's paternal grandmother was opera contralto Eva Mylott (1875–1920), who was born in Australia to Irish parents,[13] while his paternal grandfather, John Hutton Gibson, was a millionaire tobacco businessman from the Southern United States.[14][15] One of Gibson's younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor. Gibson's first name is derived from St Mel's Cathedral, situated in his mother's hometown of Longford.[16] His second name, Colmcille,[17] is also shared with an Irish saint.[18] Because of his mother, Gibson retains dual Irish and American citizenship.[19] Gibson is also an Australian permanent resident.[20][21]

Gibson's father was awarded US$145,000 in a work-related-injury lawsuit against the New York Central Railroad on February 14, 1968 (equivalent to $1,220,220 in 2022), and soon afterwards relocated his family to West Pymble, Sydney, Australia.[22] Gibson was 12 years old at the time. The move to his grandmother's native Australia was for economic reasons, and his father's expectation that the Australian Defence Forces would reject his eldest son for the draft during the Vietnam War.[23]

During his high school years, Gibson was educated by members of the Congregation of Christian Brothers at St Leo's Catholic College in Wahroonga, New South Wales.[24][25]

Career

Overview

Gibson gained very favorable notices from film critics when he first entered the cinematic scene, as well as comparisons to several classic movie stars. In 1982, Vincent Canby wrote that "Mr. Gibson recalls the young Steve McQueen... I can't define 'star quality,' but whatever it is, Mr. Gibson has it."[26] Gibson has also been likened to "a combination Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart."[27] Gibson's roles in the Mad Max series of films, Peter Weir's Gallipoli (1981), and the Lethal Weapon series of films earned him the label of "action hero".[28]

Later, Gibson expanded into a variety of acting projects including human dramas such as the Franco Zeffirelli film version of Hamlet (1990), and comedic roles such as those in Maverick (1994) and What Women Want (2000). He expanded beyond acting into directing and producing, with: The Man Without a Face (1993), Braveheart (1995), The Passion of the Christ (2004), and Apocalypto (2006). Jess Cagle of Time compared Gibson with Cary Grant, Sean Connery, and Robert Redford.[28] Connery once suggested Gibson should play the next James Bond to Connery's "M". Gibson turned down the role, reportedly because he feared being typecast.[29]

Acting

 
Gibson in 1985

Gibson studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.[30] As students, Gibson and actress Judy Davis played the leads in Romeo and Juliet, and Gibson played the role of Queen Titania in an experimental production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.[31] After graduation in 1977,[32] Gibson immediately began work on the filming of Mad Max, but continued to work as a stage actor, and joined the State Theatre Company of South Australia in Adelaide. Gibson's theatrical credits include the character Estragon (opposite Geoffrey Rush) in Waiting for Godot, and the role of Biff Loman in a 1982 production of Death of a Salesman in Sydney. Gibson's most recent theatrical performance, opposite Sissy Spacek, was the 1993 production of Love Letters by A. R. Gurney, in Telluride, Colorado.[33]

While a student at NIDA, Gibson made his film debut in the 1977 film Summer City, for which he was paid $400.[34] Gibson then played the title character in the film Mad Max (1979). He was paid $15,000 for this role.[34] Shortly after making the film he did a season with the South Australian Theatre Company. During this period he shared a $30 a week apartment in Adelaide with his future wife Robyn Moore. After Mad Max, Gibson also played a mentally slow youth in the film Tim (also 1979).[35] During this period Gibson also appeared in Australian television series guest roles. He appeared in serial The Sullivans as naval lieutenant Ray Henderson,[36] in police procedural Cop Shop,[35] and in the pilot episode of prison serial Punishment which was produced in 1980, screened 1981.[37][38]

Gibson joined the cast of the World War II action film Attack Force Z, which was not released until 1982 when Gibson had become a bigger star. Director Peter Weir cast Gibson as one of the leads in the World War I drama Gallipoli (1981), which earned Gibson another Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute.[6] Gallipoli also helped to earn Gibson the reputation of a serious, versatile actor and gained him the Hollywood agent Ed Limato. The sequel Mad Max 2 (1982) was his first hit in America, where it was released as The Road Warrior. Gibson again received positive notices for his role in Peter Weir's romantic thriller The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Following a one-year hiatus from film acting after the birth of his twin sons, Gibson took on the role of Fletcher Christian in The Bounty (1984). Gibson earned his first million dollar salary for playing Max Rockatansky for the third time, in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).[39][40]

Gibson's first American film was Mark Rydell's drama The River (1984), in which he and Sissy Spacek played struggling Tennessee farmers. Gibson then starred in the Gothic romance Mrs. Soffel (also 1984) for Australian director Gillian Armstrong. He and Matthew Modine played condemned convict brothers opposite Diane Keaton as the warden's wife who visits them to read the Bible. In 1985, after working on four films in a row, Gibson took almost two years off at his Australian cattle station.[41] He returned to play the role of Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon (1987), a film which helped to cement his status as a Hollywood "leading man".[42] Gibson's next film was Robert Towne's Tequila Sunrise (1988), followed by Lethal Weapon 2 (1989). Gibson next starred in three films back-to-back, all released in 1990: Bird on a Wire, Air America, and Hamlet.

 
Gibson in 1990 at an Air America premiere

During the 1990s, Gibson alternated between commercial and personal projects. His films in the first half of the decade were Forever Young, Lethal Weapon 3, Maverick, and Braveheart. He then starred in Ransom, Conspiracy Theory, Lethal Weapon 4, and Payback. Gibson also served as the speaking and singing voice of John Smith in Disney's Pocahontas.

Gibson was paid a record salary of $25 million to appear in The Patriot (2000).[43] It grossed over $100 million, as did two other films he featured in that year, Chicken Run and What Women Want.[28] In 2002, Gibson appeared in the Vietnam War drama We Were Soldiers and M. Night Shyamalan's Signs, which became the highest-grossing film of Gibson's acting career.[44]

While promoting Signs, Gibson said that he no longer wanted to be a movie star and would only act in film again if the script were truly extraordinary. In 2010, Gibson appeared in Edge of Darkness, which marked his first starring role since 2002[45] and was an adaptation of the BBC miniseries, Edge of Darkness.[46] In June of the same year, Gibson was in Brownsville, Texas, filming scenes for the film Get the Gringo, about a career criminal put in a tough prison in Mexico.[47]

In 2010, following an outburst at his ex-girlfriend that was made public, Gibson was dropped from the talent agency of William Morris Endeavor.[48] Gibson was lined up for a small role in The Hangover Part II but he was removed from the film after the cast and crew objected to his involvement.[49]

Gibson also played two villains: Luther Voz in Machete Kills in 2013, opposite Danny Trejo, and Conrad Stonebanks in The Expendables 3 opposite Sylvester Stallone in 2014.

 
Gibson with Expendables co-star Sylvester Stallone (background) in 2014

Gibson appeared in the lead role of director S. Craig Zahler's police brutality-themed film Dragged Across Concrete, released in 2018.[50] He then starred in The Professor and the Madman – he and the director both disowned the film.

Producing

Main article: Icon Productions

After his success in Hollywood with the Lethal Weapon series, Gibson began to move into producing and directing. With partner Bruce Davey, Gibson formed Icon Productions in 1989 in order to make Hamlet. In addition to producing or co-producing many of Gibson's own star vehicles, Icon has turned out many other small films, ranging from Immortal Beloved to An Ideal Husband. Gibson has taken supporting roles in some of these films, such as The Million Dollar Hotel and The Singing Detective. Gibson has also produced a number of projects for television, including a biopic on the Three Stooges and the 2008 PBS documentary Carrier. Icon has grown from being just a production company to also be an international distribution company and film exhibitor in Australia and New Zealand.[51] Gibson is credited as an executive producer of the 2023 movie Sound of Freedom, a film based on a true story which revolves around the topic of trafficking of children.[52]

Directing

According to Robert Downey Jr., studio executives encouraged Gibson in 1989 to try directing, an idea he rebuffed at the time.[53] Gibson made his directorial debut in 1993 with The Man Without a Face, followed two years later by Braveheart, which earned Gibson the Academy Award for Best Director. Gibson had long planned to direct a remake of Fahrenheit 451, but in 1999 the project was indefinitely postponed because of scheduling conflicts.[54] Gibson was scheduled to direct Robert Downey Jr. in a Los Angeles stage production of Hamlet in January 2001, but Downey's drug relapse ended the project.[55] In 2002, while promoting We Were Soldiers and Signs to the press, Gibson mentioned that he was planning to pare back on acting and return to directing.[56] In September 2002, Gibson announced that he would direct a film called The Passion in Aramaic and Latin with no subtitles because he hoped to "transcend language barriers with filmic storytelling."[57]

In 2004, he released the controversial film The Passion of the Christ, with subtitles, which he co-wrote, co-produced, and directed. The film went on to become the highest-grossing rated R film at the time with $370,782,930 in U.S. box office sales.[58] Gibson directed a few episodes of Complete Savages for the ABC network. In 2006, he directed the action-adventure film Apocalypto, his second film to feature sparse dialogue in a non-English language.

Gibson has expressed an intention to direct a movie set during the Viking Age, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Like The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto, he wants this speculative film to feature dialogue in period languages.[59] However, DiCaprio ultimately opted out of the project.[60] In a 2012 interview, Gibson announced that the project, which he has titled Berserker, was still moving forward.[61]

In 2011, it was announced that Gibson had commissioned a screenplay from Joe Eszterhas about the Maccabees. The film is to be distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures. The announcement generated significant controversy.[62] In April 2012, Eszterhas wrote a letter to Gibson accusing him of sabotaging their film about the Maccabees because he "hates Jews", and cited a series of private incidents during which he allegedly heard Gibson express extremely racist views. Although written as a private letter, it was subsequently published on a film industry website.[63] In response, Gibson stated that he still intends to make the film, but will not base it upon Eszterhas's script, which he called substandard.[64] Eszterhas then claimed his son had secretly recorded a number of Gibson's alleged "hateful rants".[65] In a 2012 interview, Gibson explained that the Maccabees film was still in preparation. He explained that he was drawn to the Biblical account of the uprising due to its similarity to the American Old West genre.[61]

 
Gibson in 2007

In June 2016, Gibson announced that he will reunite with Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace to make a sequel for The Passion of the Christ, focusing on the resurrection of Jesus.[66] In early November 2016, Gibson revealed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that the sequel's title will be The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection. He also stated that the project could "probably be three years off" because "it's a big subject".[67] In January 2023, it was reported that the sequel will begin filming later that year.[68]

In November 2016, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz named Gibson as "the pre-eminent religious filmmaker in the United States".[69]

In May 2018, it was announced that Gibson would be directing a WWII film titled Destroyer.[70] Destroyer, similar to Hacksaw Ridge, will also deal with the Battle of Okinawa in the Pacific Theater, although from a different front. It will be based on the heroic story of the crew belonging to USS Laffey (DD-724), who defended their ship from 22 kamikaze attacks.

In September 2018, it was announced that Gibson would direct and co-write a remake of the 1969 film, The Wild Bunch.[71] In May 2019, Deadline reported that Gibson was courting Michael Fassbender, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Dinklage to star in the project; that Jerry Bruckheimer will produce the film, and Warner Bros. will finance and release the project.[72]

In 2021, after the death of Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner, Gibson has stated that he will direct, and also star, in a Lethal Weapon 5.[73]

In May 2023, it was announced that Gibson would direct a film titled Flight Risk, starring Mark Wahlberg. Set to be released by Lionsgate, the film will star Wahlberg as "a pilot transporting a dangerous criminal for trial."[74] It was later reported that the film had begun shooting in Las Vegas on June 16. Filming was reportedly unaffected by the SAG-AFTRA strike, having been exempted as an independent project.[75]

Directing style

Gibson has credited his directors, particularly George Miller, Peter Weir, and Richard Donner, with teaching him the craft of filmmaking and influencing him as a director. As a director, Gibson sometimes breaks the tension on set by having his actors perform serious scenes wearing a red clown nose.[76] Helena Bonham Carter, who appeared alongside him in Hamlet, said of him, "He has a very basic sense of humor. It's a bit lavatorial and not very sophisticated."[77] During the filming of Hamlet, Gibson would relieve pressure on the set by mooning the cast and crew, directly following a serious scene.[78] Gibson inserted a single frame of himself smoking a cigarette into the 2005 teaser trailer of Apocalypto.[79]

Film work

Main article: Mel Gibson filmography

Gibson's screen acting career began in 1976, with a role on the Australian television series The Sullivans. In his career, Gibson has appeared in 43 films, including the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon film series. In addition to acting, Gibson has also directed four films, including Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ; produced 11 films; and written two films. Films either starring or directed by Mel Gibson have earned over US$2.5 billion, in the United States alone.[80][81] Gibson's filmography includes television series, feature films, television films, and animated films.

Mad Max series

Main article: Mad Max (franchise)

Gibson got his breakthrough role as the leather-clad post-apocalyptic survivor in George Miller's Mad Max. The independently financed blockbuster helped to make him an international star. In the United States, the actors' Australian accents were dubbed with American accents.[82] The original film spawned two sequels: Mad Max 2 (known in North America as The Road Warrior) and Mad Max 3 (known in North America as Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome). A fourth movie, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), was made with Tom Hardy in the title role.[83]

Gallipoli

Main article: Gallipoli (1981 film)

The 1981 Peter Weir film Gallipoli is about a group of young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I. They are sent to invade the Ottoman Empire, where they take part in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign. During the course of the movie, the young men slowly lose their innocence about the war. The climax of the movie centers on the catastrophic Australian offensive known as the Battle of the Nek.

Peter Weir cast Gibson in the role of Frank Dunne, an Irish-Australian drifter with an intense cynicism about fighting for the British Empire. Newcomer Mark Lee was recruited to play the idealistic Archy Hamilton after participating in a photo session for the director. Gibson later recalled:

I'd auditioned for an earlier film and he told me right up front, "I'm not going to cast you for this part. You're not old enough. But thanks for coming in, I just wanted to meet you." He told me he wanted me for Gallipoli a couple of years later because I wasn't the archetypal Australian. He had Mark Lee, the angelic-looking, ideal Australian kid, and he wanted something of a modern sensibility. He thought the audience needed someone to relate to of their own time.[84]

Gibson later said that Gallipoli is, "Not really a war movie. That's just the backdrop. It's really the story of two young men."

The critically acclaimed film helped to further launch Gibson's career.[85][86] He won the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role from the Australian Film Institute.[6]

The Year of Living Dangerously

Main article: The Year of Living Dangerously (film)

Gibson played a naïve but ambitious journalist opposite Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt in Peter Weir's atmospheric 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously, based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Koch. The movie was both a critical and commercial success, and the upcoming Australian actor was heavily marketed by MGM studio. In his review of the film, Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "If this film doesn't make an international star of Mr. Gibson, then nothing will. He possesses both the necessary talent and the screen presence."[87] According to John Hiscock of The Daily Telegraph, the film did, indeed, establish Gibson as an international talent.[88]

Gibson was initially reluctant to accept the role of Guy Hamilton. "I didn't necessarily see my role as a great challenge. My character was, like the film suggests, a puppet. And I went with that. It wasn't some star thing, even though they advertised it that way."[89] Gibson saw some similarities between himself and the character of Guy. "He's not a silver-tongued devil. He's kind of immature and he has some rough edges and I guess you could say the same for me."[27]

The Bounty

Main article: The Bounty (1984 film)

Gibson followed the footsteps of Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, and Marlon Brando by starring as Fletcher Christian in a cinematic retelling of the Mutiny on the Bounty. The resulting 1984 film The Bounty is considered to be the most historically accurate version. However, Gibson has expressed a belief that the film's revisionism did not go far enough. He has stated that his character should have been portrayed as the film's antagonist. He has further praised Anthony Hopkins's performance as Lieutenant William Bligh as the best aspect of the film.[89]

Lethal Weapon series

Main article: Lethal Weapon (film series)

Gibson moved into more mainstream commercial filmmaking with the popular action comedy film series Lethal Weapon, which began with the 1987 original. In the films he played LAPD Detective Martin Riggs, a recently widowed Vietnam veteran with a death wish and a penchant for violence and gunplay. In the films, he is partnered with a reserved family man named Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) and starting with the second film, they're joined by a hyperactive informant named Leo Getz (Joe Pesci). Following the success of Lethal Weapon, director Richard Donner and principal cast revisited the characters in three sequels, Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Lethal Weapon 3 (1993), and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998). With its fourth installment, the Lethal Weapon series embodied "the quintessence of the buddy cop pic".[90]

The film series has since been rebooted with a television adaptation, which aired for three seasons on FOX.

On November 15, 2021, Gibson confirmed that he will direct the fifth Lethal Weapon film following the death of director Richard Donner. "The man who directed all the 'Lethal films', Richard Donner, he was a big guy. He was developing the screenplay and he got pretty far along with it. And he said to me one day, 'Listen kid, if I kick the bucket you will do it.' And I said: 'Shut up.' But he did indeed pass away. But he did ask me to do it and at the time I didn't say anything. He said it to his wife and to the studio and the producer. So I will be directing the fifth one" Gibson said.[91]

Hamlet

Main article: Hamlet (1990 film)

Gibson made the unusual transition from action to classical drama, playing William Shakespeare's Danish prince in Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet. Gibson was cast alongside experienced Shakespearean actors Ian Holm, Alan Bates, and Paul Scofield. He compared working with Scofield to being "thrown into the ring with Mike Tyson".[92] Scofield said of Gibson "Not the sort of actor you'd think would make an ideal Hamlet, but he had enormous integrity and intelligence."[93]

Braveheart

Main article: Braveheart
 
Gibson (right) on the set of Braveheart

In 1995, Gibson directed, produced, and starred in Braveheart, a biographical film of Sir William Wallace, a Scottish nationalist who was executed in 1305 for "high treason" against King Edward I of England. Gibson received two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Picture, for his second directorial effort. In winning the Academy Award for Best Director, Gibson became only the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to do so.[94] Braveheart influenced the Scottish nationalist movement and helped to revive the film genre of the historical epic; the Battle of Stirling Bridge sequence is considered by critics to be one of the all-time best-directed battle scenes.[95]

The film's depiction of the Prince of Wales as an effeminate homosexual caused the film to be attacked by the Gay Alliance. The Gay Alliance was especially enraged by a scene in which King Edward I murders his son's male lover by throwing him out of a castle window.

Gibson, who had previously been reported making several homophobic statements,[96] now replied, "The fact that King Edward throws this character out a window has nothing to do with him being gay ... He's terrible to his son, to everybody."[97]

Gibson asserted that the reason that King Edward I kills his son's lover is because the king is a "psychopath".[98] Gibson also expressed bewilderment that some filmgoers laughed at this murder:

We cut a scene out, unfortunately ... where you really got to know that character (Edward II) and to understand his plight and his pain... But it just stopped the film in the first act so much that you thought, "When's this story going to start?"[99]

The Passion of the Christ

Main article: The Passion of the Christ

Gibson directed, produced, co-wrote, and funded the film The Passion of the Christ (2004), which chronicled the passion and death of Jesus (Jim Caviezel). The film was shot exclusively in Aramaic, Latin, and Hebrew. Gibson originally intended to release the film without subtitles, but eventually relented for theatrical exhibition. The film sparked divergent reviews, ranging from high praise to criticism of the violence. The Anti-Defamation League accused Gibson of antisemitism over the film's unflattering depiction of Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin.

In The Nation, reviewer Katha Pollitt wrote: "Gibson has violated just about every precept of the (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) conference's own 1988 'Criteria' for the portrayal of Jews in dramatizations of the Passion (no bloodthirsty Jews, no rabble, no use of Scripture that reinforces negative stereotypes of Jews, etc.) ... The priests have big noses and gnarly faces, lumpish bodies, yellow teeth; Herod Antipas and his court are a bizarre collection of oily-haired, epicene perverts. The 'good Jews' look like Italian movie stars (Magdalene actually is an Italian movie star, the lovely Monica Bellucci); Mary, who would have been around 50 and appeared 70, could pass for a ripe 35."[100]

Among those to defend Gibson were Orthodox Jewish rabbi Daniel Lapin and radio personality Michael Medved.[101] Referring to ADL National Director Abraham Foxman, Rabbi Lapin said that by calling The Passion of the Christ antisemitic, "what he is saying is that the only way (for Christians) to escape the wrath of Foxman is to repudiate (their own) faith."[101]

In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Gibson stated: "If anyone has distorted Gospel passages to rationalize cruelty towards Jews or anyone, it's in defiance of repeated Papal condemnation. The Papacy has condemned racism in any form... Jesus died for the sins of all times, and I'll be the first on the line for culpability".[102]

Eventually, the continued media attacks began to anger Gibson. After Hutton Gibson's Holocaust denial was used to attack his son's film in print by The New York Times writer Frank Rich,[103] an enraged Mel Gibson retorted, "I want to kill him. I want his intestines on a stick.... I want to kill his dog."[104][105]

Gibson's Traditionalist Catholic upbringing was also the target of criticism. In a 2006 interview with Diane Sawyer, Gibson stated that he feels that his "human rights were violated" by the often vitriolic attacks on his person, his family, and his religious beliefs which were sparked by The Passion.[106]

The film grossed US$611,899,420 worldwide and $370,782,930 in the U.S. alone,[107] surpassing any motion picture starring Gibson.[108] In U.S. box offices, it became the seventh-highest-grossing (at the time) film in history[109] and the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.[110] The film was nominated for three Academy Awards[111] and won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture.[112]

Apocalypto

Main article: Apocalypto

Gibson received further critical acclaim for his directing of the 2006 action-adventure film Apocalypto.[113] Gibson's fourth directorial effort is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century against the turbulent end times of a Maya civilization. The sparse dialogue is spoken in the Yucatec Maya language by a cast of Native American descent.[114][115]

Gibson himself has stated that the film is an attempt at making a deliberate point about great civilizations and what causes them to decline and disintegrate. Gibson said, "People think that modern man is so enlightened, but we're susceptible to the same forces—and we are also capable of the same heroism and transcendence."[116][117] This theme is further explored by a quote from Will Durant, which is superimposed at the very beginning of the film: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

The Beaver

 
Gibson with Jodie Foster at the premiere of The Beaver at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival

Gibson starred in The Beaver, a domestic drama about a depressed alcoholic directed by former Maverick costar Jodie Foster.[118] The Beaver premiered at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas on March 16, 2011. The opening weekend in 22 theaters was considered a flop; it made $104,000 which comes to a per-theater average of $4,745.[119] The film's distributor, Summit Entertainment, had originally planned for a wide release of The Beaver for the weekend of May 20, but after the initial box-office returns for the film, the company changed course and decided instead to give the film a "limited art-house run".[120] Michael Cieply of The New York Times observed on June 5, 2011, that the film had cleared just about $1 million, making it a certified "flop".[121] Director Jodie Foster opined that the film did not do well with American audiences because it was a dramedy, and "very often Americans are not comfortable with [that]".[122]

Before its release, much of the coverage focussed on the unavoidable association between the protagonist's issues and Mel Gibson's own well-publicized personal and legal problems (see § Alcohol abuse and legal issues), including a conviction of battery of his ex-girlfriend.[123] Wrote Time magazine, "The Beaver is a somber, sad domestic drama featuring an alcoholic in acute crisis ... It's hard to separate Gibson's true-life story from what's happening onscreen."[124]

Hacksaw Ridge

In 2014, Gibson signed on to direct Hacksaw Ridge, a World War II drama based on the true story of conscientious objector Desmond T. Doss, played by Andrew Garfield.[125] The film premiered at the 73rd Venice Film Festival in September 2016[126] and received what The New Zealand Herald calls "rave reviews".[127][128] It has won or been nominated for many awards, including Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture, Best Director for Gibson, and Best Actor for Garfield. Hacksaw Ridge was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing.[129][130] The film grossed $164 million worldwide, four times its production costs.[131]

Personal life

Relationships

Robyn Denise Moore

 
Gibson and Moore at the 60th Academy Awards in 1988

Gibson met Robyn Denise Moore in 1977,[132] soon after filming Mad Max, in Adelaide, South Australia. At the time, Robyn was a dental nurse and Mel was an unknown actor working for the South Australian Theatre Company.[133] On June 7, 1980, Mel and Robyn were married in a Catholic church in Forestville, New South Wales.[134] They have one daughter, Hannah (b. 1980), and six sons: twins Edward and Christian (b. 1982), William (b. 1985), Louis (b. 1988), Milo (b. 1990), and Thomas (b. 1999); and three grandchildren as of 2011.[135][136]

After 26 years of marriage, Gibson and Robyn separated on July 29, 2006.[137][138] In a 2011 interview, Gibson stated that the separation began the day following his arrest for drunk driving in Malibu.[139] Robyn Gibson filed for divorce on April 13, 2009, citing irreconcilable differences. In a joint statement, the Gibsons declared, "Throughout our marriage and separation we have always striven to maintain the privacy and integrity of our family and will continue to do so."[17] The divorce filing followed the March 2009 release of photographs appearing to show him on a beach embracing his live-in girlfriend of one year, Russian songwriter and pianist Oksana Grigorieva.[140][141]

The Gibsons' divorce was finalized on December 23, 2011, and the settlement with his ex-wife was said to be the highest in Hollywood history at over $400 million.[142] The couple reportedly did not have a prenuptial agreement; because California is a community property state,[143] Robyn Gibson received half of everything her husband had earned during their marriage.[142]

Oksana Grigorieva

In a 2010 interview, Grigorieva stated that, when she first began being wooed by Gibson, she was surprised and only accepted his advances after learning that the actor-director and his wife had been separated for more than 18 months. Grigorieva added, "He wrote me a lot of poetry. It was very beautiful, impressionistic, like an edgy, modern iambic pentameter. Mel has a really good grasp of language, he's fantastic with words."[144]

On April 28, 2009, Gibson made a red carpet-appearance with Grigorieva. Grigorieva, who had previously had a son with actor Timothy Dalton,[145] gave birth to Gibson's daughter Lucia on October 30, 2009.[146][147][148] By April 2010, Gibson and Grigorieva had split.[149] On June 21, 2010, Grigorieva filed a restraining order against Gibson to keep him away from her and their child. The restraining order was modified the next day regarding Gibson's contact with their child.[150] Gibson obtained a restraining order against Grigorieva on June 25, 2010.[150][151]

 
Gibson's 2011 mugshot from booking with El Segundo Police Department[152]

Grigorieva accused Gibson of domestic violence, leading to an investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in July 2010.[153][154] On July 9, 2010, some audio recordings of a rant, allegedly directed by Gibson toward Grigorieva, were posted on the internet.[155] The same day Gibson was dropped by his agency, William Morris Endeavor.[155] Gibson's estranged wife Robyn filed a court statement declaring that she never experienced any abuse from Gibson[156] while forensic experts have questioned the validity of some of the tapes, Gibson himself did not deny they were accurate at the time.[157] In March 2011, Mel Gibson agreed to plead no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge.[158] In April 2011, Gibson finally broke his silence about the incident in question. In an interview with Deadline Hollywood, Gibson expressed gratitude to longtime friends Whoopi Goldberg and Jodie Foster, both of whom had spoken publicly in his defense. About the recordings, Gibson said,

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality—period. I don't blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It's one terribly awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn't represent what I truly believe or how I've treated people my entire life.[139]

In the same interview, Gibson stated

I was allowed to end the case and still maintain my innocence. It's called a West Plea[159] and it's not something that prosecutors normally allow. But in my case, the prosecutors and the judge agreed that it was the right thing to do. I could have continued to fight this for years and it probably would have come out fine. But I ended it for my children and my family. This was going to be such a circus. You don't drag other people in your life through this sewer needlessly, so I'll take the hit and move on.[139]

In August 2011, Gibson settled with Grigorieva, who was awarded $750,000, joint legal custody, and a house in Sherman Oaks, California until their daughter Lucia turns 18. In 2013, Grigorieva sued her attorneys, accusing them of advising her to sign a bad agreement, including a term that taking legal action against Gibson would compromise her financial settlement.[160]

Rosalind Ross

As of 2014, Gibson is in a relationship with former champion equestrian vaulter and writer Rosalind Ross.[161][162] Ross gave birth to their son, and Gibson's ninth child, Lars Gerard, on January 20, 2017, in Los Angeles.[163]

Investments

Gibson is a property investor, with multiple properties in Malibu, California, several locations in Costa Rica, a private island in Fiji, and properties in Australia.[164][165] In December 2004, Gibson sold his 300 acres (1.2 km2) Australian farm in the Kiewa Valley for $6 million.[166] Also in December 2004, Gibson purchased Mago Island in Fiji from Tokyu Corporation of Japan for $15 million. Descendants of the original native inhabitants of Mago, who were displaced in the 1860s, have protested the purchase. Gibson stated it was his intention to retain the pristine environment of the undeveloped island.[167]

In early 2005, he sold his 45,000 acres (180 km2) Montana ranch to a neighbor.[168] In April 2007, he purchased a 400 acres (1.6 km2) ranch in Costa Rica for $26 million, and, in July 2007, he sold his 76 acres (31 ha) Tudor estate in Connecticut (which he purchased in 1994 for $9 million) for $40 million to an unnamed buyer.[169] Also that month, he sold a Malibu property for $30 million that he had purchased for $24 million two years before.[170]

In 2008, he purchased the Malibu home of actors David Duchovny and Téa Leoni.[171]

Jersey Leaks

Records of Gibson using offshore accounts and business were revealed in the Jersey Leaks, records of more than 20,000 individuals held with the wealth management firm Kleinwort Benson.[172]

Philanthropy

 
Gibson at the Christmas party for charity Mending Kids International in 2007. His former wife Robyn was president of the charity.

Gibson and his former wife have contributed a substantial amount of money to various charities, one of which is Healing the Children. According to Cris Embleton, one of the founders, the Gibsons gave millions to provide lifesaving medical treatment to needy children worldwide.[173][174] They also supported the restoration of Renaissance artwork[175] and gave millions of dollars to NIDA.[176]

Gibson donated $500,000 to the El Mirador Basin Project to protect the last tract of virgin rain forest in Central America and to fund archeological excavations in the "cradle of Mayan civilization".[177] In July 2007, Gibson again visited Central America to make arrangements for donations to the indigenous population. Gibson met with Costa Rican President Óscar Arias to discuss how to "channel the funds".[178] During the same month, Gibson pledged to give financial assistance to a Malaysian company named Green Rubber Global for a tire recycling factory located in Gallup, New Mexico.[179] While on a business trip to Singapore in September 2007, Gibson donated to a local charity for children with chronic and terminal illnesses.[180] Gibson is also a supporter of Angels at Risk, a nonprofit organization focusing on education about drug and alcohol abuse among teens.[181]

In a 2011 interview, Gibson said of his philanthropic works, "It gives you perspective. It's one of my faults, you tend to focus on yourself a lot. Which is not always the healthiest thing for your psyche or anything else. If you take a little time out to think about other people, it's good. It's uplifting."[182]

Religious and political views

Faith

Gibson was raised a sedevacantist traditionalist Catholic (who reject the sitting pope, and usually several prior ones as well).[23] During the filming of The Passion of The Christ, he had daily visits from both local priests and priests from the Institute of Christ the King (a non-sedevacantist group) in France.[183]

When asked about the Catholic doctrine of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, Gibson replied, "There is no salvation for those outside the Church ... I believe it. Put it this way. My wife is a saint. She's a much better person than I am. Honestly. She's ... Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, she knows Jesus, she believes in that stuff. And it's just not fair if she doesn't make it, she's better than I am. But that is a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it."[104][184] When he was asked whether John 14:6 is an intolerant position, he said that "through the merits of Jesus' sacrifice ... even people who don't know Jesus are able to be saved, but through him."[185]

Gibson's acquaintance Fr. William Fulco said in 2009 that Gibson denies neither the pope nor Vatican II; even so, as of 2021, Gibson attended the Church of the Holy Family, a traditionalist church he founded and funds in Southern California.[186] Gibson has told Diane Sawyer that he believes non-Catholics and non-Christians can go to Heaven.[106][187]

In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, Gibson said: "God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them. One can't decide for oneself who comes into this world and who doesn't. That decision doesn't belong to us."[188]

Politics

In a July 1995 interview with Playboy, Gibson said President Bill Clinton was a "low-level opportunist" and someone was "telling him what to do". He said that the Rhodes Scholarship was established for young men and women who want to strive for a "new world order" and this was a campaign for Marxism.[189] Gibson later backed away from such conspiracy theories saying, "It was like: 'Hey, tell us a conspiracy'... so I laid out this thing, and suddenly, it was like I was talking the gospel truth, espousing all this political shit like I believed in it."[190] In the same 1995 Playboy interview, Gibson argued against ordaining women to the priesthood.[191]

In 2004, he publicly spoke out against taxpayer-funded embryonic stem-cell research that involves the cloning and destruction of human embryos.[192] In March 2005, he condemned the outcome of the Terri Schiavo case, referring to Schiavo's death as "state-sanctioned murder".[193]

Gibson questioned the Iraq War in March 2004.[194] In 2006, Gibson said that the "fearmongering" depicted in his film Apocalypto "reminds me a little of President Bush and his guys."[195] He later said in 2016 that he is anti-war but has an appreciation for the sacrifices made by "warriors".[196]

Gibson complimented filmmaker Michael Moore and his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 when he and Moore were recognized at the 2005 People's Choice Awards.[197] Gibson's Icon Productions originally agreed to finance Moore's film but later sold the rights to Miramax Films. Moore said that his agent Ari Emanuel claimed that "top Republicans" called Gibson to tell him, "don't expect to get more invitations to the White House".[198] Icon's spokesman dismissed this story, saying "We never run from a controversy. You'd have to be out of your mind to think that of the company that just put out The Passion of the Christ."[199]

In a 2011 interview, Gibson stated:

The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I'll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they're all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I'm not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it's a whole other world. Once you've been exposed to it, once or twice or however many times, if you know the facts and see how they're presented, it's mind-boggling. It's a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.[139]

Gibson revealed in a 2016 interview with Jorge Ramos that he voted for neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election.[200] In July 2021, Gibson was filmed saluting Trump while attending UFC 264, which went viral over the Internet.[201][202][203]

In October 2020, Gibson released a statement regarding the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and expressing solidarity with the Armenian people.[204]

Alcohol abuse and legal issues

Gibson has said that he started drinking at the age of 13.[205] In a 2002 interview for the documentary actingclassof1977.com, made by his former National Institute of Dramatic Art colleague Sally McKenzie, Gibson said, "I had really good highs but some very low lows."[206]

Gibson was banned from driving in Ontario, Canada, for three months in 1984, after rear-ending a car in Toronto while under the influence of alcohol.[207] He retreated to his Australian farm for over a year to recover, but he continued to struggle with drinking. Despite this problem, Gibson gained a reputation in Hollywood for professionalism and punctuality such that frequent collaborator Richard Donner was shocked when Gibson confided that he was drinking five pints of beer for breakfast.[106] Reflecting in 2003 and 2004, Gibson said that despair in his mid-30s led him to contemplate suicide, and he meditated on Christ's Passion to heal his wounds.[106][184][208] He took more time off acting in 1991 and sought professional help.[209] That year, Gibson's attorneys were unsuccessful at blocking the Sunday Mirror from publishing what Gibson shared at AA meetings.[210][clarification needed] In 1992, Gibson provided financial support to Hollywood's Recovery Center, saying, "Alcoholism is something that runs in my family. It's something that's close to me. People do come back from it, and it's a miracle."[211]

On August 17, 2006, Gibson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge and was sentenced to three years' probation.[212] He was ordered to attend self-help meetings five times a week for four-and-a-half months and three times a week for the remainder of the first year of his probation. He was also ordered to attend a First Offenders Program and fined $1,300, and his license was restricted for 90 days.[212]

Controversies

See also: Braveheart § Portrayal of Longshanks and Prince Edward, and The Passion of the Christ § Allegations of antisemitism

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) accused Gibson of homophobia after a December 1991 interview in the Spanish newspaper El País in which he made derogatory comments about gay people.[96][213] Gibson later defended his comments,[96] and rejected calls to apologize even as he faced fresh accusations of homophobia in the wake of his film Braveheart.[189] Gibson joined GLAAD in hosting 10 lesbian and gay filmmakers for an on-location seminar on the set of the movie Conspiracy Theory in January 1997.[214] In 1999, when asked about the comments to El País, Gibson said, "I shouldn't have said it, but I was tickling a bit of vodka during that interview, and the quote came back to bite me on the ass."[190]

On July 28, 2006, Gibson was arrested by Sheriff's Deputy James Mee of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for driving under the influence (DUI) while speeding in his vehicle with an open container of alcohol. According to a 2011 article in Vanity Fair, Gibson first told the arresting officer, "My life is over. I'm fucked. Robyn's going to leave me."[215] According to the arrest report, Gibson exploded into an angry tirade when the arresting officer would not allow him to drive home. In what Vanity Fair was later told was an attempt at suicide by cop,[215] Gibson said to the arresting officer, "Fucking Jews... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. Are you a Jew?"[216][217][218]

After the arrest report was leaked on TMZ.com, Gibson issued two apologies through his publicist,[219] and—in a televised interview with Diane Sawyer—he affirmed the accuracy of the quotations.[220] He further apologized for his "despicable" behavior, saying that the comments were "blurted out in a moment of insanity",[212] and asked to meet with Jewish leaders to help him "discern the appropriate path for healing."[221] After Gibson's arrest, his publicist said he had entered a recovery program to battle alcoholism.

In July 2010, Gibson had been recorded during a phone call with Grigorieva suggesting that if she got "raped by a pack of niggers", she would be to blame.[222][223][224][225] Grigorieva said the voices on the multiple recordings leaked were of herself and Gibson, according to CNN.[226] He was barred from coming near Grigorieva or their daughter due to a domestic violence-related restraining order.[222] The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department launched a domestic violence investigation against Gibson,[154] later dropped when Gibson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge.[158]

Gibson's controversial statements resulted in him being blacklisted in Hollywood for almost a decade.[227] Both Robert Downey Jr. and journalist Allison Hope Weiner advocated for forgiveness for Gibson in 2014.[228][229] In 2016, Gibson's film Hacksaw Ridge, which received six Academy Award nominations, resulted in what was perceived as a "thaw" in his reputation.[230]

Filmography

Main article: Mel Gibson filmography
Year Title[231] Domestic box office Notes Ref(s)
1993 The Man Without a Face $24.8 million
1995 Braveheart $75.6 million Winner of Academy Award for Best Director
Also producer; winner of Academy Award for Best Picture 		[232]
2004 The Passion of the Christ $370.8 million
2006 Apocalypto $50.9 million
2016 Hacksaw Ridge $67.2 million Nominated—Academy Award for Best Director [233]

Awards and honors

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Mel Gibson
Year Title Academy Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe Awards
Nominations Wins Nominations Wins Nominations Wins
1995 Braveheart 10 5 7 3 4 1
2004 The Passion of the Christ 3
2006 Apocalypto 3 1 1
2016 Hacksaw Ridge 6 2 5 1 3
Total 22 7 13 4 8 1

In 1985, Gibson was named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People, the first person to be named so.[234] Gibson quietly declined the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government in 1995 as a protest against France's resumption of nuclear testing in the Southwest Pacific.[235] On July 25, 1997, Gibson was named an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), in recognition of his "service to the Australian film industry". The award was honorary because substantive awards are made only to Australian citizens.[236][237]

Nominations

Notes

  1. ^ Distinguished service of a high degree to Australia or to humanity at large.

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General bibliography

  • McCarty, John (September 2001). The Films of Mel Gibson. New York: Citadel. ISBN 0-8065-2226-7.
  • Clarkson, Wensley (September 2004). Mel Gibson: Man on a Mission. London: John Blake. ISBN 1-85782-537-3.

Further reading

  • DeAngelis, Michael (2001). Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2728-7.

External links

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gibson, this, article, about, actor, basketball, player, coach, basketball, columcille, gerard, gibson, born, january, 1956, american, actor, film, director, known, action, hero, roles, particularly, breakout, role, rockatansky, first, three, films, post, apoc. This article is about the actor For the basketball player and coach see Mel Gibson basketball Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson 3 AO born January 3 1956 4 is an American actor and film director He is known for his action hero roles particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post apocalyptic action series Mad Max and as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop action comedy film series Lethal Weapon Mel GibsonAOGibson in 2016BornMel Columcille Gerard Gibson 1956 01 03 January 3 1956 age 68 Peekskill New York U S CitizenshipUnited StatesIreland 1 2 EducationNational Institute of Dramatic Art BFA OccupationsActorfilm directorproducerYears active1976 presentWorksFull listSpouseRobyn Moore m 1980 div 2011 wbr Partner s Oksana Grigorieva 2009 2010 Rosalind Ross 2014 present Children9 including MiloParentHutton Gibson father RelativesDonal Gibson brother Eva Mylott grandmother AwardsFull listBorn in Peekskill New York Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney Australia when he was 12 years old He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art where he starred opposite Judy Davis in a production of Romeo and Juliet During the 1980s he founded Icon Entertainment a production company which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called an alternative to the studio system 5 Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the World War I drama Gallipoli 1981 which earned Gibson a Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute 6 In 1985 Gibson was named as People magazine s first Sexiest Man Alive 7 In 1995 Gibson produced directed and starred in Braveheart a historical epic for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Picture He later directed and produced The Passion of the Christ a biblical drama that was both financially successful and highly controversial He received further critical notice for his directorial work of the action adventure film Apocalypto 2006 which is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century After several legal issues and controversial statements leaked to the public Gibson s popularity in Hollywood declined affecting his careers in acting and directing 8 His career began seeing a resurgence with his performance in Edge of Darkness 2010 and Jodie Foster s The Beaver 2011 His directorial comeback after an absence of 10 years Hacksaw Ridge 2016 won two Academy Awards 9 10 and was nominated for another four including Best Picture and Best Director for Gibson his second nomination in the category Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Overview 2 2 Acting 2 3 Producing 2 4 Directing 2 4 1 Directing style 3 Film work 3 1 Mad Max series 3 2 Gallipoli 3 3 The Year of Living Dangerously 3 4 The Bounty 3 5 Lethal Weapon series 3 6 Hamlet 3 7 Braveheart 3 8 The Passion of the Christ 3 9 Apocalypto 3 10 The Beaver 3 11 Hacksaw Ridge 4 Personal life 4 1 Relationships 4 1 1 Robyn Denise Moore 4 1 2 Oksana Grigorieva 4 1 3 Rosalind Ross 4 2 Investments 4 2 1 Jersey Leaks 4 3 Philanthropy 4 4 Religious and political views 4 4 1 Faith 4 4 2 Politics 4 5 Alcohol abuse and legal issues 5 Controversies 6 Filmography 7 Awards and honors 7 1 Nominations 8 Notes 9 Citations 10 General bibliography 11 Further reading 12 External linksEarly lifeGibson was born in Peekskill New York of Irish descent the sixth of 11 children and the second son of Hutton Gibson a writer and Irish born Anne Patricia nee Reilly died 1990 11 12 Gibson s paternal grandmother was opera contralto Eva Mylott 1875 1920 who was born in Australia to Irish parents 13 while his paternal grandfather John Hutton Gibson was a millionaire tobacco businessman from the Southern United States 14 15 One of Gibson s younger brothers Donal is also an actor Gibson s first name is derived from St Mel s Cathedral situated in his mother s hometown of Longford 16 His second name Colmcille 17 is also shared with an Irish saint 18 Because of his mother Gibson retains dual Irish and American citizenship 19 Gibson is also an Australian permanent resident 20 21 Gibson s father was awarded US 145 000 in a work related injury lawsuit against the New York Central Railroad on February 14 1968 equivalent to 1 220 220 in 2022 and soon afterwards relocated his family to West Pymble Sydney Australia 22 Gibson was 12 years old at the time The move to his grandmother s native Australia was for economic reasons and his father s expectation that the Australian Defence Forces would reject his eldest son for the draft during the Vietnam War 23 During his high school years Gibson was educated by members of the Congregation of Christian Brothers at St Leo s Catholic College in Wahroonga New South Wales 24 25 CareerOverview Gibson gained very favorable notices from film critics when he first entered the cinematic scene as well as comparisons to several classic movie stars In 1982 Vincent Canby wrote that Mr Gibson recalls the young Steve McQueen I can t define star quality but whatever it is Mr Gibson has it 26 Gibson has also been likened to a combination Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart 27 Gibson s roles in the Mad Max series of films Peter Weir s Gallipoli 1981 and the Lethal Weapon series of films earned him the label of action hero 28 Later Gibson expanded into a variety of acting projects including human dramas such as the Franco Zeffirelli film version of Hamlet 1990 and comedic roles such as those in Maverick 1994 and What Women Want 2000 He expanded beyond acting into directing and producing with The Man Without a Face 1993 Braveheart 1995 The Passion of the Christ 2004 and Apocalypto 2006 Jess Cagle of Time compared Gibson with Cary Grant Sean Connery and Robert Redford 28 Connery once suggested Gibson should play the next James Bond to Connery s M Gibson turned down the role reportedly because he feared being typecast 29 Acting nbsp Gibson in 1985Gibson studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney 30 As students Gibson and actress Judy Davis played the leads in Romeo and Juliet and Gibson played the role of Queen Titania in an experimental production of A Midsummer Night s Dream 31 After graduation in 1977 32 Gibson immediately began work on the filming of Mad Max but continued to work as a stage actor and joined the State Theatre Company of South Australia in Adelaide Gibson s theatrical credits include the character Estragon opposite Geoffrey Rush in Waiting for Godot and the role of Biff Loman in a 1982 production of Death of a Salesman in Sydney Gibson s most recent theatrical performance opposite Sissy Spacek was the 1993 production of Love Letters by A R Gurney in Telluride Colorado 33 While a student at NIDA Gibson made his film debut in the 1977 film Summer City for which he was paid 400 34 Gibson then played the title character in the film Mad Max 1979 He was paid 15 000 for this role 34 Shortly after making the film he did a season with the South Australian Theatre Company During this period he shared a 30 a week apartment in Adelaide with his future wife Robyn Moore After Mad Max Gibson also played a mentally slow youth in the film Tim also 1979 35 During this period Gibson also appeared in Australian television series guest roles He appeared in serial The Sullivans as naval lieutenant Ray Henderson 36 in police procedural Cop Shop 35 and in the pilot episode of prison serial Punishment which was produced in 1980 screened 1981 37 38 Gibson joined the cast of the World War II action film Attack Force Z which was not released until 1982 when Gibson had become a bigger star Director Peter Weir cast Gibson as one of the leads in the World War I drama Gallipoli 1981 which earned Gibson another Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute 6 Gallipoli also helped to earn Gibson the reputation of a serious versatile actor and gained him the Hollywood agent Ed Limato The sequel Mad Max 2 1982 was his first hit in America where it was released as The Road Warrior Gibson again received positive notices for his role in Peter Weir s romantic thriller The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Following a one year hiatus from film acting after the birth of his twin sons Gibson took on the role of Fletcher Christian in The Bounty 1984 Gibson earned his first million dollar salary for playing Max Rockatansky for the third time in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 39 40 Gibson s first American film was Mark Rydell s drama The River 1984 in which he and Sissy Spacek played struggling Tennessee farmers Gibson then starred in the Gothic romance Mrs Soffel also 1984 for Australian director Gillian Armstrong He and Matthew Modine played condemned convict brothers opposite Diane Keaton as the warden s wife who visits them to read the Bible In 1985 after working on four films in a row Gibson took almost two years off at his Australian cattle station 41 He returned to play the role of Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon 1987 a film which helped to cement his status as a Hollywood leading man 42 Gibson s next film was Robert Towne s Tequila Sunrise 1988 followed by Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Gibson next starred in three films back to back all released in 1990 Bird on a Wire Air America and Hamlet nbsp Gibson in 1990 at an Air America premiereDuring the 1990s Gibson alternated between commercial and personal projects His films in the first half of the decade were Forever Young Lethal Weapon 3 Maverick and Braveheart He then starred in Ransom Conspiracy Theory Lethal Weapon 4 and Payback Gibson also served as the speaking and singing voice of John Smith in Disney s Pocahontas Gibson was paid a record salary of 25 million to appear in The Patriot 2000 43 It grossed over 100 million as did two other films he featured in that year Chicken Run and What Women Want 28 In 2002 Gibson appeared in the Vietnam War drama We Were Soldiers and M Night Shyamalan s Signs which became the highest grossing film of Gibson s acting career 44 While promoting Signs Gibson said that he no longer wanted to be a movie star and would only act in film again if the script were truly extraordinary In 2010 Gibson appeared in Edge of Darkness which marked his first starring role since 2002 45 and was an adaptation of the BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness 46 In June of the same year Gibson was in Brownsville Texas filming scenes for the film Get the Gringo about a career criminal put in a tough prison in Mexico 47 In 2010 following an outburst at his ex girlfriend that was made public Gibson was dropped from the talent agency of William Morris Endeavor 48 Gibson was lined up for a small role in The Hangover Part II but he was removed from the film after the cast and crew objected to his involvement 49 Gibson also played two villains Luther Voz in Machete Kills in 2013 opposite Danny Trejo and Conrad Stonebanks in The Expendables 3 opposite Sylvester Stallone in 2014 nbsp Gibson with Expendables co star Sylvester Stallone background in 2014Gibson appeared in the lead role of director S Craig Zahler s police brutality themed film Dragged Across Concrete released in 2018 50 He then starred in The Professor and the Madman he and the director both disowned the film Producing Main article Icon Productions After his success in Hollywood with the Lethal Weapon series Gibson began to move into producing and directing With partner Bruce Davey Gibson formed Icon Productions in 1989 in order to make Hamlet In addition to producing or co producing many of Gibson s own star vehicles Icon has turned out many other small films ranging from Immortal Beloved to An Ideal Husband Gibson has taken supporting roles in some of these films such as The Million Dollar Hotel and The Singing Detective Gibson has also produced a number of projects for television including a biopic on the Three Stooges and the 2008 PBS documentary Carrier Icon has grown from being just a production company to also be an international distribution company and film exhibitor in Australia and New Zealand 51 Gibson is credited as an executive producer of the 2023 movie Sound of Freedom a film based on a true story which revolves around the topic of trafficking of children 52 Directing According to Robert Downey Jr studio executives encouraged Gibson in 1989 to try directing an idea he rebuffed at the time 53 Gibson made his directorial debut in 1993 with The Man Without a Face followed two years later by Braveheart which earned Gibson the Academy Award for Best Director Gibson had long planned to direct a remake of Fahrenheit 451 but in 1999 the project was indefinitely postponed because of scheduling conflicts 54 Gibson was scheduled to direct Robert Downey Jr in a Los Angeles stage production of Hamlet in January 2001 but Downey s drug relapse ended the project 55 In 2002 while promoting We Were Soldiers and Signs to the press Gibson mentioned that he was planning to pare back on acting and return to directing 56 In September 2002 Gibson announced that he would direct a film called The Passion in Aramaic and Latin with no subtitles because he hoped to transcend language barriers with filmic storytelling 57 In 2004 he released the controversial film The Passion of the Christ with subtitles which he co wrote co produced and directed The film went on to become the highest grossing rated R film at the time with 370 782 930 in U S box office sales 58 Gibson directed a few episodes of Complete Savages for the ABC network In 2006 he directed the action adventure film Apocalypto his second film to feature sparse dialogue in a non English language Gibson has expressed an intention to direct a movie set during the Viking Age starring Leonardo DiCaprio Like The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto he wants this speculative film to feature dialogue in period languages 59 However DiCaprio ultimately opted out of the project 60 In a 2012 interview Gibson announced that the project which he has titled Berserker was still moving forward 61 In 2011 it was announced that Gibson had commissioned a screenplay from Joe Eszterhas about the Maccabees The film is to be distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures The announcement generated significant controversy 62 In April 2012 Eszterhas wrote a letter to Gibson accusing him of sabotaging their film about the Maccabees because he hates Jews and cited a series of private incidents during which he allegedly heard Gibson express extremely racist views Although written as a private letter it was subsequently published on a film industry website 63 In response Gibson stated that he still intends to make the film but will not base it upon Eszterhas s script which he called substandard 64 Eszterhas then claimed his son had secretly recorded a number of Gibson s alleged hateful rants 65 In a 2012 interview Gibson explained that the Maccabees film was still in preparation He explained that he was drawn to the Biblical account of the uprising due to its similarity to the American Old West genre 61 nbsp Gibson in 2007In June 2016 Gibson announced that he will reunite with Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace to make a sequel for The Passion of the Christ focusing on the resurrection of Jesus 66 In early November 2016 Gibson revealed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that the sequel s title will be The Passion of the Christ Resurrection He also stated that the project could probably be three years off because it s a big subject 67 In January 2023 it was reported that the sequel will begin filming later that year 68 In November 2016 film critic Matt Zoller Seitz named Gibson as the pre eminent religious filmmaker in the United States 69 In May 2018 it was announced that Gibson would be directing a WWII film titled Destroyer 70 Destroyer similar to Hacksaw Ridge will also deal with the Battle of Okinawa in the Pacific Theater although from a different front It will be based on the heroic story of the crew belonging to USS Laffey DD 724 who defended their ship from 22 kamikaze attacks In September 2018 it was announced that Gibson would direct and co write a remake of the 1969 film The Wild Bunch 71 In May 2019 Deadline reported that Gibson was courting Michael Fassbender Jamie Foxx and Peter Dinklage to star in the project that Jerry Bruckheimer will produce the film and Warner Bros will finance and release the project 72 In 2021 after the death of Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner Gibson has stated that he will direct and also star in a Lethal Weapon 5 73 In May 2023 it was announced that Gibson would direct a film titled Flight Risk starring Mark Wahlberg Set to be released by Lionsgate the film will star Wahlberg as a pilot transporting a dangerous criminal for trial 74 It was later reported that the film had begun shooting in Las Vegas on June 16 Filming was reportedly unaffected by the SAG AFTRA strike having been exempted as an independent project 75 Directing style Gibson has credited his directors particularly George Miller Peter Weir and Richard Donner with teaching him the craft of filmmaking and influencing him as a director As a director Gibson sometimes breaks the tension on set by having his actors perform serious scenes wearing a red clown nose 76 Helena Bonham Carter who appeared alongside him in Hamlet said of him He has a very basic sense of humor It s a bit lavatorial and not very sophisticated 77 During the filming of Hamlet Gibson would relieve pressure on the set by mooning the cast and crew directly following a serious scene 78 Gibson inserted a single frame of himself smoking a cigarette into the 2005 teaser trailer of Apocalypto 79 Film workMain article Mel Gibson filmography Gibson s screen acting career began in 1976 with a role on the Australian television series The Sullivans In his career Gibson has appeared in 43 films including the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon film series In addition to acting Gibson has also directed four films including Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ produced 11 films and written two films Films either starring or directed by Mel Gibson have earned over US 2 5 billion in the United States alone 80 81 Gibson s filmography includes television series feature films television films and animated films Mad Max series Main article Mad Max franchise Gibson got his breakthrough role as the leather clad post apocalyptic survivor in George Miller s Mad Max The independently financed blockbuster helped to make him an international star In the United States the actors Australian accents were dubbed with American accents 82 The original film spawned two sequels Mad Max 2 known in North America as The Road Warrior and Mad Max 3 known in North America as Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome A fourth movie Mad Max Fury Road 2015 was made with Tom Hardy in the title role 83 Gallipoli Main article Gallipoli 1981 film The 1981 Peter Weir film Gallipoli is about a group of young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I They are sent to invade the Ottoman Empire where they take part in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign During the course of the movie the young men slowly lose their innocence about the war The climax of the movie centers on the catastrophic Australian offensive known as the Battle of the Nek Peter Weir cast Gibson in the role of Frank Dunne an Irish Australian drifter with an intense cynicism about fighting for the British Empire Newcomer Mark Lee was recruited to play the idealistic Archy Hamilton after participating in a photo session for the director Gibson later recalled I d auditioned for an earlier film and he told me right up front I m not going to cast you for this part You re not old enough But thanks for coming in I just wanted to meet you He told me he wanted me for Gallipoli a couple of years later because I wasn t the archetypal Australian He had Mark Lee the angelic looking ideal Australian kid and he wanted something of a modern sensibility He thought the audience needed someone to relate to of their own time 84 Gibson later said that Gallipoli is Not really a war movie That s just the backdrop It s really the story of two young men The critically acclaimed film helped to further launch Gibson s career 85 86 He won the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role from the Australian Film Institute 6 The Year of Living Dangerously Main article The Year of Living Dangerously film Gibson played a naive but ambitious journalist opposite Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt in Peter Weir s atmospheric 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Koch The movie was both a critical and commercial success and the upcoming Australian actor was heavily marketed by MGM studio In his review of the film Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote If this film doesn t make an international star of Mr Gibson then nothing will He possesses both the necessary talent and the screen presence 87 According to John Hiscock of The Daily Telegraph the film did indeed establish Gibson as an international talent 88 Gibson was initially reluctant to accept the role of Guy Hamilton I didn t necessarily see my role as a great challenge My character was like the film suggests a puppet And I went with that It wasn t some star thing even though they advertised it that way 89 Gibson saw some similarities between himself and the character of Guy He s not a silver tongued devil He s kind of immature and he has some rough edges and I guess you could say the same for me 27 The Bounty Main article The Bounty 1984 film Gibson followed the footsteps of Errol Flynn Clark Gable and Marlon Brando by starring as Fletcher Christian in a cinematic retelling of the Mutiny on the Bounty The resulting 1984 film The Bounty is considered to be the most historically accurate version However Gibson has expressed a belief that the film s revisionism did not go far enough He has stated that his character should have been portrayed as the film s antagonist He has further praised Anthony Hopkins s performance as Lieutenant William Bligh as the best aspect of the film 89 Lethal Weapon series Main article Lethal Weapon film series Gibson moved into more mainstream commercial filmmaking with the popular action comedy film series Lethal Weapon which began with the 1987 original In the films he played LAPD Detective Martin Riggs a recently widowed Vietnam veteran with a death wish and a penchant for violence and gunplay In the films he is partnered with a reserved family man named Roger Murtaugh Danny Glover and starting with the second film they re joined by a hyperactive informant named Leo Getz Joe Pesci Following the success of Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner and principal cast revisited the characters in three sequels Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Lethal Weapon 3 1993 and Lethal Weapon 4 1998 With its fourth installment the Lethal Weapon series embodied the quintessence of the buddy cop pic 90 The film series has since been rebooted with a television adaptation which aired for three seasons on FOX On November 15 2021 Gibson confirmed that he will direct the fifth Lethal Weapon film following the death of director Richard Donner The man who directed all the Lethal films Richard Donner he was a big guy He was developing the screenplay and he got pretty far along with it And he said to me one day Listen kid if I kick the bucket you will do it And I said Shut up But he did indeed pass away But he did ask me to do it and at the time I didn t say anything He said it to his wife and to the studio and the producer So I will be directing the fifth one Gibson said 91 Hamlet Main article Hamlet 1990 film Gibson made the unusual transition from action to classical drama playing William Shakespeare s Danish prince in Franco Zeffirelli s Hamlet Gibson was cast alongside experienced Shakespearean actors Ian Holm Alan Bates and Paul Scofield He compared working with Scofield to being thrown into the ring with Mike Tyson 92 Scofield said of Gibson Not the sort of actor you d think would make an ideal Hamlet but he had enormous integrity and intelligence 93 Braveheart Main article Braveheart nbsp Gibson right on the set of BraveheartIn 1995 Gibson directed produced and starred in Braveheart a biographical film of Sir William Wallace a Scottish nationalist who was executed in 1305 for high treason against King Edward I of England Gibson received two Academy Awards Best Director and Best Picture for his second directorial effort In winning the Academy Award for Best Director Gibson became only the sixth actor turned filmmaker to do so 94 Braveheart influenced the Scottish nationalist movement and helped to revive the film genre of the historical epic the Battle of Stirling Bridge sequence is considered by critics to be one of the all time best directed battle scenes 95 The film s depiction of the Prince of Wales as an effeminate homosexual caused the film to be attacked by the Gay Alliance The Gay Alliance was especially enraged by a scene in which King Edward I murders his son s male lover by throwing him out of a castle window Gibson who had previously been reported making several homophobic statements 96 now replied The fact that King Edward throws this character out a window has nothing to do with him being gay He s terrible to his son to everybody 97 Gibson asserted that the reason that King Edward I kills his son s lover is because the king is a psychopath 98 Gibson also expressed bewilderment that some filmgoers laughed at this murder We cut a scene out unfortunately where you really got to know that character Edward II and to understand his plight and his pain But it just stopped the film in the first act so much that you thought When s this story going to start 99 The Passion of the Christ Main article The Passion of the Christ Gibson directed produced co wrote and funded the film The Passion of the Christ 2004 which chronicled the passion and death of Jesus Jim Caviezel The film was shot exclusively in Aramaic Latin and Hebrew Gibson originally intended to release the film without subtitles but eventually relented for theatrical exhibition The film sparked divergent reviews ranging from high praise to criticism of the violence The Anti Defamation League accused Gibson of antisemitism over the film s unflattering depiction of Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin In The Nation reviewer Katha Pollitt wrote Gibson has violated just about every precept of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops conference s own 1988 Criteria for the portrayal of Jews in dramatizations of the Passion no bloodthirsty Jews no rabble no use of Scripture that reinforces negative stereotypes of Jews etc The priests have big noses and gnarly faces lumpish bodies yellow teeth Herod Antipas and his court are a bizarre collection of oily haired epicene perverts The good Jews look like Italian movie stars Magdalene actually is an Italian movie star the lovely Monica Bellucci Mary who would have been around 50 and appeared 70 could pass for a ripe 35 100 Among those to defend Gibson were Orthodox Jewish rabbi Daniel Lapin and radio personality Michael Medved 101 Referring to ADL National Director Abraham Foxman Rabbi Lapin said that by calling The Passion of the Christ antisemitic what he is saying is that the only way for Christians to escape the wrath of Foxman is to repudiate their own faith 101 In an interview with The Globe and Mail Gibson stated If anyone has distorted Gospel passages to rationalize cruelty towards Jews or anyone it s in defiance of repeated Papal condemnation The Papacy has condemned racism in any form Jesus died for the sins of all times and I ll be the first on the line for culpability 102 Eventually the continued media attacks began to anger Gibson After Hutton Gibson s Holocaust denial was used to attack his son s film in print by The New York Times writer Frank Rich 103 an enraged Mel Gibson retorted I want to kill him I want his intestines on a stick I want to kill his dog 104 105 Gibson s Traditionalist Catholic upbringing was also the target of criticism In a 2006 interview with Diane Sawyer Gibson stated that he feels that his human rights were violated by the often vitriolic attacks on his person his family and his religious beliefs which were sparked by The Passion 106 The film grossed US 611 899 420 worldwide and 370 782 930 in the U S alone 107 surpassing any motion picture starring Gibson 108 In U S box offices it became the seventh highest grossing at the time film in history 109 and the highest grossing R rated film of all time 110 The film was nominated for three Academy Awards 111 and won the People s Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture 112 Apocalypto Main article Apocalypto Gibson received further critical acclaim for his directing of the 2006 action adventure film Apocalypto 113 Gibson s fourth directorial effort is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century against the turbulent end times of a Maya civilization The sparse dialogue is spoken in the Yucatec Maya language by a cast of Native American descent 114 115 Gibson himself has stated that the film is an attempt at making a deliberate point about great civilizations and what causes them to decline and disintegrate Gibson said People think that modern man is so enlightened but we re susceptible to the same forces and we are also capable of the same heroism and transcendence 116 117 This theme is further explored by a quote from Will Durant which is superimposed at the very beginning of the film A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within The Beaver nbsp Gibson with Jodie Foster at the premiere of The Beaver at the 2011 Cannes Film FestivalGibson starred in The Beaver a domestic drama about a depressed alcoholic directed by former Maverick costar Jodie Foster 118 The Beaver premiered at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin Texas on March 16 2011 The opening weekend in 22 theaters was considered a flop it made 104 000 which comes to a per theater average of 4 745 119 The film s distributor Summit Entertainment had originally planned for a wide release of The Beaver for the weekend of May 20 but after the initial box office returns for the film the company changed course and decided instead to give the film a limited art house run 120 Michael Cieply of The New York Times observed on June 5 2011 that the film had cleared just about 1 million making it a certified flop 121 Director Jodie Foster opined that the film did not do well with American audiences because it was a dramedy and very often Americans are not comfortable with that 122 Before its release much of the coverage focussed on the unavoidable association between the protagonist s issues and Mel Gibson s own well publicized personal and legal problems see Alcohol abuse and legal issues including a conviction of battery of his ex girlfriend 123 Wrote Time magazine The Beaver is a somber sad domestic drama featuring an alcoholic in acute crisis It s hard to separate Gibson s true life story from what s happening onscreen 124 Hacksaw Ridge In 2014 Gibson signed on to direct Hacksaw Ridge a World War II drama based on the true story of conscientious objector Desmond T Doss played by Andrew Garfield 125 The film premiered at the 73rd Venice Film Festival in September 2016 126 and received what The New Zealand Herald calls rave reviews 127 128 It has won or been nominated for many awards including Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture Best Director for Gibson and Best Actor for Garfield Hacksaw Ridge was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing 129 130 The film grossed 164 million worldwide four times its production costs 131 Personal lifeRelationships Robyn Denise Moore nbsp Gibson and Moore at the 60th Academy Awards in 1988Gibson met Robyn Denise Moore in 1977 132 soon after filming Mad Max in Adelaide South Australia At the time Robyn was a dental nurse and Mel was an unknown actor working for the South Australian Theatre Company 133 On June 7 1980 Mel and Robyn were married in a Catholic church in Forestville New South Wales 134 They have one daughter Hannah b 1980 and six sons twins Edward and Christian b 1982 William b 1985 Louis b 1988 Milo b 1990 and Thomas b 1999 and three grandchildren as of 2011 update 135 136 After 26 years of marriage Gibson and Robyn separated on July 29 2006 137 138 In a 2011 interview Gibson stated that the separation began the day following his arrest for drunk driving in Malibu 139 Robyn Gibson filed for divorce on April 13 2009 citing irreconcilable differences In a joint statement the Gibsons declared Throughout our marriage and separation we have always striven to maintain the privacy and integrity of our family and will continue to do so 17 The divorce filing followed the March 2009 release of photographs appearing to show him on a beach embracing his live in girlfriend of one year Russian songwriter and pianist Oksana Grigorieva 140 141 The Gibsons divorce was finalized on December 23 2011 and the settlement with his ex wife was said to be the highest in Hollywood history at over 400 million 142 The couple reportedly did not have a prenuptial agreement because California is a community property state 143 Robyn Gibson received half of everything her husband had earned during their marriage 142 Oksana Grigorieva In a 2010 interview Grigorieva stated that when she first began being wooed by Gibson she was surprised and only accepted his advances after learning that the actor director and his wife had been separated for more than 18 months Grigorieva added He wrote me a lot of poetry It was very beautiful impressionistic like an edgy modern iambic pentameter Mel has a really good grasp of language he s fantastic with words 144 On April 28 2009 Gibson made a red carpet appearance with Grigorieva Grigorieva who had previously had a son with actor Timothy Dalton 145 gave birth to Gibson s daughter Lucia on October 30 2009 146 147 148 By April 2010 Gibson and Grigorieva had split 149 On June 21 2010 Grigorieva filed a restraining order against Gibson to keep him away from her and their child The restraining order was modified the next day regarding Gibson s contact with their child 150 Gibson obtained a restraining order against Grigorieva on June 25 2010 150 151 nbsp Gibson s 2011 mugshot from booking with El Segundo Police Department 152 Grigorieva accused Gibson of domestic violence leading to an investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department in July 2010 153 154 On July 9 2010 some audio recordings of a rant allegedly directed by Gibson toward Grigorieva were posted on the internet 155 The same day Gibson was dropped by his agency William Morris Endeavor 155 Gibson s estranged wife Robyn filed a court statement declaring that she never experienced any abuse from Gibson 156 while forensic experts have questioned the validity of some of the tapes Gibson himself did not deny they were accurate at the time 157 In March 2011 Mel Gibson agreed to plead no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge 158 In April 2011 Gibson finally broke his silence about the incident in question In an interview with Deadline Hollywood Gibson expressed gratitude to longtime friends Whoopi Goldberg and Jodie Foster both of whom had spoken publicly in his defense About the recordings Gibson said I ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender race religion or sexuality period I don t blame some people for thinking that though from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes which have been edited You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally heated discussion at the height of a breakdown trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship It s one terribly awful moment in time said to one person in the span of one day and doesn t represent what I truly believe or how I ve treated people my entire life 139 In the same interview Gibson stated I was allowed to end the case and still maintain my innocence It s called a West Plea 159 and it s not something that prosecutors normally allow But in my case the prosecutors and the judge agreed that it was the right thing to do I could have continued to fight this for years and it probably would have come out fine But I ended it for my children and my family This was going to be such a circus You don t drag other people in your life through this sewer needlessly so I ll take the hit and move on 139 In August 2011 Gibson settled with Grigorieva who was awarded 750 000 joint legal custody and a house in Sherman Oaks California until their daughter Lucia turns 18 In 2013 Grigorieva sued her attorneys accusing them of advising her to sign a bad agreement including a term that taking legal action against Gibson would compromise her financial settlement 160 Rosalind Ross As of 2014 Gibson is in a relationship with former champion equestrian vaulter and writer Rosalind Ross 161 162 Ross gave birth to their son and Gibson s ninth child Lars Gerard on January 20 2017 in Los Angeles 163 Investments Gibson is a property investor with multiple properties in Malibu California several locations in Costa Rica a private island in Fiji and properties in Australia 164 165 In December 2004 Gibson sold his 300 acres 1 2 km2 Australian farm in the Kiewa Valley for 6 million 166 Also in December 2004 Gibson purchased Mago Island in Fiji from Tokyu Corporation of Japan for 15 million Descendants of the original native inhabitants of Mago who were displaced in the 1860s have protested the purchase Gibson stated it was his intention to retain the pristine environment of the undeveloped island 167 In early 2005 he sold his 45 000 acres 180 km2 Montana ranch to a neighbor 168 In April 2007 he purchased a 400 acres 1 6 km2 ranch in Costa Rica for 26 million and in July 2007 he sold his 76 acres 31 ha Tudor estate in Connecticut which he purchased in 1994 for 9 million for 40 million to an unnamed buyer 169 Also that month he sold a Malibu property for 30 million that he had purchased for 24 million two years before 170 In 2008 he purchased the Malibu home of actors David Duchovny and Tea Leoni 171 Jersey Leaks Records of Gibson using offshore accounts and business were revealed in the Jersey Leaks records of more than 20 000 individuals held with the wealth management firm Kleinwort Benson 172 Philanthropy nbsp Gibson at the Christmas party for charity Mending Kids International in 2007 His former wife Robyn was president of the charity Gibson and his former wife have contributed a substantial amount of money to various charities one of which is Healing the Children According to Cris Embleton one of the founders the Gibsons gave millions to provide lifesaving medical treatment to needy children worldwide 173 174 They also supported the restoration of Renaissance artwork 175 and gave millions of dollars to NIDA 176 Gibson donated 500 000 to the El Mirador Basin Project to protect the last tract of virgin rain forest in Central America and to fund archeological excavations in the cradle of Mayan civilization 177 In July 2007 Gibson again visited Central America to make arrangements for donations to the indigenous population Gibson met with Costa Rican President oscar Arias to discuss how to channel the funds 178 During the same month Gibson pledged to give financial assistance to a Malaysian company named Green Rubber Global for a tire recycling factory located in Gallup New Mexico 179 While on a business trip to Singapore in September 2007 Gibson donated to a local charity for children with chronic and terminal illnesses 180 Gibson is also a supporter of Angels at Risk a nonprofit organization focusing on education about drug and alcohol abuse among teens 181 In a 2011 interview Gibson said of his philanthropic works It gives you perspective It s one of my faults you tend to focus on yourself a lot Which is not always the healthiest thing for your psyche or anything else If you take a little time out to think about other people it s good It s uplifting 182 Religious and political views Faith Gibson was raised a sedevacantist traditionalist Catholic who reject the sitting pope and usually several prior ones as well 23 During the filming of The Passion of The Christ he had daily visits from both local priests and priests from the Institute of Christ the King a non sedevacantist group in France 183 When asked about the Catholic doctrine of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus Gibson replied There is no salvation for those outside the Church I believe it Put it this way My wife is a saint She s a much better person than I am Honestly She s Episcopalian Church of England She prays she believes in God she knows Jesus she believes in that stuff And it s just not fair if she doesn t make it she s better than I am But that is a pronouncement from the chair I go with it 104 184 When he was asked whether John 14 6 is an intolerant position he said that through the merits of Jesus sacrifice even people who don t know Jesus are able to be saved but through him 185 Gibson s acquaintance Fr William Fulco said in 2009 that Gibson denies neither the pope nor Vatican II even so as of 2021 Gibson attended the Church of the Holy Family a traditionalist church he founded and funds in Southern California 186 Gibson has told Diane Sawyer that he believes non Catholics and non Christians can go to Heaven 106 187 In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters Gibson said God is the only one who knows how many children we should have and we should be ready to accept them One can t decide for oneself who comes into this world and who doesn t That decision doesn t belong to us 188 Politics In a July 1995 interview with Playboy Gibson said President Bill Clinton was a low level opportunist and someone was telling him what to do He said that the Rhodes Scholarship was established for young men and women who want to strive for a new world order and this was a campaign for Marxism 189 Gibson later backed away from such conspiracy theories saying It was like Hey tell us a conspiracy so I laid out this thing and suddenly it was like I was talking the gospel truth espousing all this political shit like I believed in it 190 In the same 1995 Playboy interview Gibson argued against ordaining women to the priesthood 191 In 2004 he publicly spoke out against taxpayer funded embryonic stem cell research that involves the cloning and destruction of human embryos 192 In March 2005 he condemned the outcome of the Terri Schiavo case referring to Schiavo s death as state sanctioned murder 193 Gibson questioned the Iraq War in March 2004 194 In 2006 Gibson said that the fearmongering depicted in his film Apocalypto reminds me a little of President Bush and his guys 195 He later said in 2016 that he is anti war but has an appreciation for the sacrifices made by warriors 196 Gibson complimented filmmaker Michael Moore and his documentary Fahrenheit 9 11 when he and Moore were recognized at the 2005 People s Choice Awards 197 Gibson s Icon Productions originally agreed to finance Moore s film but later sold the rights to Miramax Films Moore said that his agent Ari Emanuel claimed that top Republicans called Gibson to tell him don t expect to get more invitations to the White House 198 Icon s spokesman dismissed this story saying We never run from a controversy You d have to be out of your mind to think that of the company that just put out The Passion of the Christ 199 In a 2011 interview Gibson stated The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this I ll get a newspaper to read between the lines Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they re all in a box And you watch Fox claw CNN and CNN claw Fox Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me I quietly support candidates I m not out there banging a drum for candidates But I have supported a candidate and it s a whole other world Once you ve been exposed to it once or twice or however many times if you know the facts and see how they re presented it s mind boggling It s a very scary arena to be in but I do vote I go in there and pull the lever It s kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you Why should we trust any of these people None of them ever deliver on anything It s always disappointing 139 Gibson revealed in a 2016 interview with Jorge Ramos that he voted for neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election 200 In July 2021 Gibson was filmed saluting Trump while attending UFC 264 which went viral over the Internet 201 202 203 In October 2020 Gibson released a statement regarding the Second Nagorno Karabakh War and expressing solidarity with the Armenian people 204 Alcohol abuse and legal issues Gibson has said that he started drinking at the age of 13 205 In a 2002 interview for the documentary actingclassof1977 com made by his former National Institute of Dramatic Art colleague Sally McKenzie Gibson said I had really good highs but some very low lows 206 Gibson was banned from driving in Ontario Canada for three months in 1984 after rear ending a car in Toronto while under the influence of alcohol 207 He retreated to his Australian farm for over a year to recover but he continued to struggle with drinking Despite this problem Gibson gained a reputation in Hollywood for professionalism and punctuality such that frequent collaborator Richard Donner was shocked when Gibson confided that he was drinking five pints of beer for breakfast 106 Reflecting in 2003 and 2004 Gibson said that despair in his mid 30s led him to contemplate suicide and he meditated on Christ s Passion to heal his wounds 106 184 208 He took more time off acting in 1991 and sought professional help 209 That year Gibson s attorneys were unsuccessful at blocking the Sunday Mirror from publishing what Gibson shared at AA meetings 210 clarification needed In 1992 Gibson provided financial support to Hollywood s Recovery Center saying Alcoholism is something that runs in my family It s something that s close to me People do come back from it and it s a miracle 211 On August 17 2006 Gibson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge and was sentenced to three years probation 212 He was ordered to attend self help meetings five times a week for four and a half months and three times a week for the remainder of the first year of his probation He was also ordered to attend a First Offenders Program and fined 1 300 and his license was restricted for 90 days 212 ControversiesSee also Braveheart Portrayal of Longshanks and Prince Edward and The Passion of the Christ Allegations of antisemitismThe Gay amp Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation GLAAD accused Gibson of homophobia after a December 1991 interview in the Spanish newspaper El Pais in which he made derogatory comments about gay people 96 213 Gibson later defended his comments 96 and rejected calls to apologize even as he faced fresh accusations of homophobia in the wake of his film Braveheart 189 Gibson joined GLAAD in hosting 10 lesbian and gay filmmakers for an on location seminar on the set of the movie Conspiracy Theory in January 1997 214 In 1999 when asked about the comments to El Pais Gibson said I shouldn t have said it but I was tickling a bit of vodka during that interview and the quote came back to bite me on the ass 190 On July 28 2006 Gibson was arrested by Sheriff s Deputy James Mee of the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department for driving under the influence DUI while speeding in his vehicle with an open container of alcohol According to a 2011 article in Vanity Fair Gibson first told the arresting officer My life is over I m fucked Robyn s going to leave me 215 According to the arrest report Gibson exploded into an angry tirade when the arresting officer would not allow him to drive home In what Vanity Fair was later told was an attempt at suicide by cop 215 Gibson said to the arresting officer Fucking Jews the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world Are you a Jew 216 217 218 After the arrest report was leaked on TMZ com Gibson issued two apologies through his publicist 219 and in a televised interview with Diane Sawyer he affirmed the accuracy of the quotations 220 He further apologized for his despicable behavior saying that the comments were blurted out in a moment of insanity 212 and asked to meet with Jewish leaders to help him discern the appropriate path for healing 221 After Gibson s arrest his publicist said he had entered a recovery program to battle alcoholism In July 2010 Gibson had been recorded during a phone call with Grigorieva suggesting that if she got raped by a pack of niggers she would be to blame 222 223 224 225 Grigorieva said the voices on the multiple recordings leaked were of herself and Gibson according to CNN 226 He was barred from coming near Grigorieva or their daughter due to a domestic violence related restraining order 222 The Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department launched a domestic violence investigation against Gibson 154 later dropped when Gibson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge 158 Gibson s controversial statements resulted in him being blacklisted in Hollywood for almost a decade 227 Both Robert Downey Jr and journalist Allison Hope Weiner advocated for forgiveness for Gibson in 2014 228 229 In 2016 Gibson s film Hacksaw Ridge which received six Academy Award nominations resulted in what was perceived as a thaw in his reputation 230 FilmographyMain article Mel Gibson filmography Directed features Year Title Distribution1993 The Man Without a Face Warner Bros 1995 Braveheart Paramount Pictures 20th Century Fox2004 The Passion of the Christ Icon Productions2006 Apocalypto Buena Vista Pictures 20th Century Fox2016 Hacksaw Ridge LionsgateTBA Flight RiskYear Title 231 Domestic box office Notes Ref s 1993 The Man Without a Face 24 8 million1995 Braveheart 75 6 million Winner of Academy Award for Best DirectorAlso producer winner of Academy Award for Best Picture 232 2004 The Passion of the Christ 370 8 million2006 Apocalypto 50 9 million2016 Hacksaw Ridge 67 2 million Nominated Academy Award for Best Director 233 Awards and honorsMain article List of awards and nominations received by Mel Gibson Year Title Academy Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe AwardsNominations Wins Nominations Wins Nominations Wins1995 Braveheart 10 5 7 3 4 12004 The Passion of the Christ 32006 Apocalypto 3 1 12016 Hacksaw Ridge 6 2 5 1 3Total 22 7 13 4 8 1In 1985 Gibson was named the Sexiest Man Alive by People the first person to be named so 234 Gibson quietly declined the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government in 1995 as a protest against France s resumption of nuclear testing in the Southwest Pacific 235 On July 25 1997 Gibson was named an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia AO in recognition of his service to the Australian film industry The award was honorary because substantive awards are made only to Australian citizens 236 237 Australian Film Institute Award Best Actor in a Lead Role for Tim 1979 238 and Gallipoli 1981 239 Academy Award Best Picture for Braveheart 1995 94 Academy Award Best Director for Braveheart 1995 94 People s Choice Awards Favorite Motion Picture Actor 1991 240 1997 241 2001 242 2003 243 2004 244 People s Choice Awards Favorite Motion Picture Star in a Comedy 2001 242 ShoWest Award Male Star of the Year 1993 245 ShoWest Award Director of the Year 1996 246 American Cinematheque Gala Tribute American Cinematheque Award 1995 247 Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year 1997 248 Australian Film Institute Global Achievement Award 2002 249 Honorary Doctorate Recipient and Undergraduate Commencement Speaker Loyola Marymount University 2003 250 World s most powerful celebrity by U S business magazine Forbes 2004 251 The Hollywood Reporter Innovator of the Year 2004 252 Honorary fellowship in Performing Arts by Limkokwing University 2007 253 Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Award at the Irish Film and Television Awards 2008 254 AACTA Awards Best Film for Hacksaw Ridge 2016 255 256 257 AACTA Awards Best Direction for Hacksaw Ridge 2016 255 256 257 Hollywood Film Awards Hollywood Director Award for Hacksaw Ridge 2016 258 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for Daddy s Home 2 259 nbsp Officer of the Order of Australia Honorary AO a Australia Nominations Saturn Award for Best Actor for Mad Max 2 1981 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss with Rene Russo and Most Desirable Male for Lethal Weapon 3 1992 BAFTA Award for Best Direction Directors Guild of America Award MTV Movie Award for Best Performance Male and MTV Movie Award for Most Desirable Male for Braveheart 1995 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Drama for Ransom 1996 MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence with Danny Glover for Lethal Weapon 4 1998 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for What Women Want 2000 MTV Movie Award for Best Performance Male for The Patriot 2000 Satellite Award for Best Director for The Passion of the Christ 2004 BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Apocalypto 2006 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for The Expendables 3 2014 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for Dangerous 2021 Notes Distinguished service of a high degree to Australia or to humanity at large Citations American star Mel Gibson is an Irish citizen and says Ireland feels like home ireland calling com August 16 2020 Lonergan Aidan 11 celebrities you never realised had an Irish passport The Irish Post McDannell Colleen 2008 Catholics in the Movies Oxford University Press USA ISBN 978 0 19 530656 9 UPI Almanac for Thursday Jan 3 2019 United Press International January 3 2019 Archived from the original on January 3 2019 Retrieved September 3 2019 actor director Mel Gibson in 1956 age 63 Brian D Johnson December 25 2006 Mad Mel s passion for vengeance Maclean s a b c The Australian Film Institute Past Winners Archived July 23 2010 at the Wayback Machine This is every Sexiest Man Alive winner since 1985 November 7 2022 Grady Constance July 24 2018 Mel Gibson has set the blueprint for a MeToo comeback Expect other men to follow it Vox Retrieved July 24 2018 Hacksaw Ridge wins 2 Oscar awards honoring local Desmond Doss February 28 2017 Archived from the original on March 1 2017 Retrieved February 28 2017 OSCAR WINNERS 2017 SEE THE COMPLETE LIST February 27 2017 Retrieved July 9 2017 Mel Gibson to be honoured at 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2016 Mel Gibson doesn t deserve to be hailed as a prodigal son after his misogyny racism The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved June 4 2018 Fischer Paul Mel returns to war Femail com au Trellian Retrieved June 4 2018 Clarkson Wensley 1993 Mel Gibson Living Dangerously New York Thunder s Mouth Press p 30 a b Grossman Wendy July 31 2003 Is the Pope Catholic Dallas Observer Archived from the original on November 8 2013 Retrieved April 7 2023 Mel Gibson s Biography Filmography Celebrity Gossip Entertainment News Arts And Entertainment Fox News Channel August 8 2006 Archived from the original on March 20 2014 Retrieved July 13 2010 A son s dangerous passion in the name of the father OpinionGerardHenderson The Sydney Morning Herald March 2 2004 Retrieved July 13 2010 Canby Vincent August 29 1982 New Faces Brighten a Mixed Batch of Movies The New York Times a b Vernon Scott February 24 1983 Mel Gibson Australia s new hunk United Press International a b c Cagle Jess December 11 2000 Cinema A Softer Side of Mel Time Archived from the original on July 24 2010 Retrieved July 20 2010 Clarkson Wensley 1993 Mel Gibson Living Dangerously New York Thunder s Mouth Press pp 170 171 Graeme Blundell May 24 2008 Youth with stars in their eyes The Australian Archived from the original on May 28 2008 Retrieved June 1 2008 A Night on Mount Edna December 15 1990 Huong Nhu August 18 2006 Mel Gibson Convicted on Drink driving Sai Gon Giải Phong Archived from the original on July 21 2011 Retrieved July 23 2010 Robert Weller July 17 1993 Welcome to Telluride Now Go Away Associated Press a b Gibson blushes as first screen kiss surfaces The Sunday Times July 10 2005 Archived from the original on July 23 2010 Retrieved July 20 2010 a b Atterton Margot Ed The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz Sunshine Books 1984 ISBN 0 86777 057 0 p 86 Mercado Andrew Super Aussie Soaps Pluto Press Australia 2004 ISBN 1 86403 191 3 p 111 Mercado Andrew Super Aussie Soaps Pluto Press Australia 2004 ISBN 1 86403 191 3 pp 154 156 Moran Albert Moran s Guide to Australian TV Series Allen amp Unwin 1993 ISBN 0 642 18462 3 pp 371 2 Valdez Joe December 20 2007 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 This Distracted Globe Archived from the original on July 27 2009 Retrieved May 24 2009 Vagg Stephen August 18 2019 Australian Movie Stars Filmink Morris Mark July 16 2000 Mel Gibson Proud or prejudiced The Observer UK Retrieved July 19 2010 Adler Shawn December 7 2006 From Mad Max To His Infamous Rant Mel Gibson s Highs And Lows MTV Retrieved July 19 2010 Livin Large Entertainment Weekly No 540 Spring 2000 p 117 Mel Gibson Box Office Mojo Retrieved May 24 2009 Fleming Michael April 28 2008 Mel Gibson returns for Darkness Variety Archived from the original on March 30 2009 Retrieved March 29 2009 Michael Fleming April 28 2008 Mel Gibson returns for Darkness Variety Archived from the original on July 13 2008 Retrieved October 22 2008 Hollywood Hits Home Mel Gibson film crew shoot scenes in Brownsville Archived June 10 2010 at the Wayback Machine The Brownsville Herald Shahid Aliyah July 10 2010 Mel Gibson s agency drops actor after racist and sexist rant alleged attack against ex girlfriend Daily News New York Archived from the original on July 12 2010 Retrieved July 11 2010 Cieply Michael October 21 2010 No Hangover for Mel Gibson The New York Times Retrieved October 21 2010 McNary Dave February 1 2017 Mel Gibson Vince Vaughn to Star in Movie About Police Brutality Variety Retrieved February 3 2017 Press release October 25 2007 PBS Icon Productions and Carrier Project Granted Unprecedented Access to U S Aircraft Carrier to Film Revealing 10 Part Series Carrier Press release PBS Retrieved July 19 2010 Sound of Freedom From award winning executive producer Mel Gibson Apple TV February 7 2023 Retrieved February 7 2023 McWhirter Erin May 1 2008 Robert Downey Jr has irons in the fire The Courier Mail Archived from the original on July 27 2009 Retrieved July 2 2023 Fleming Michael Cox Dan February 1 1999 Gibson in talks for Patriot Variety Archived from the original on February 17 2013 Gibson Downey Jr becomes Hamlet BBC News September 21 2000 Rose Tiffany September 8 2002 Mel Gibson I think I m mellowing in my old age The Independent UK Archived from the original on July 23 2010 Jesus Christ What Ain t It Cool News The best in movie TV DVD and comic book news Aintitcool com Retrieved October 22 2008 All Time Box Office Box Office Mojo Retrieved December 22 2010 Mel Gibson to direct DiCaprio in Viking movie report France 24 December 14 2009 Archived from the original on February 2 2010 Retrieved January 18 2010 EXCLUSIVE Leo DiCaprio Pulling Out Of Mel Gibson Movie Radaronline com July 29 2010 Retrieved July 24 2011 a b Mel Gibson on his Mad Max past and new epic aspirations Los Angeles Times February 6 2012 Archived from the original on March 19 2012 Jewish Leaders Slam Mel Gibson and Warner Brothers for Judah Maccabee Movie Eszterhas Joe April 11 2012 Joe Eszterhas open letter to Mel Gibson April 9 2011 Archived from the original on March 4 2020 Retrieved February 19 2020 Mel Gibson Joe Eszterhas is a Liar and His Script SUCKED TMZ April 11 2012 Joe Eszterhas My Son Taped A Lot Of Mel s Hateful Rants TMZ April 12 2012 Bond Paul June 9 2016 Mel Gibson Planning Passion of the Christ Sequel Exclusive The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved July 18 2016 Lee Ashley November 2 2016 Mel Gibson s Passion of the Christ Sequel Titled Resurrection The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved February 23 2017 Wise Talia January 6 2023 Mel Gibson s Passion of the Christ Sequel Resurrection to Begin Production This Spring CBN News Duralde Alonso November 5 2016 Matt Zoller Seitz Doctor Strange Trolls Hacksaw Ridge I m Not Ashamed Linoleum Knife Archived from the original on November 6 2016 Retrieved November 6 2016 Borys Kit April 30 2018 Mel Gibson Eyes Kamikaze War Thriller Destroyer as Next Directing Gig Exclusive The Hollywood Reporter Los Angeles California 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I like them But their thing is not my thing When the interviewer asked if Gibson was afraid that people would think he is gay because he s an actor Gibson replied Do I sound like a homosexual Do I talk like them Do I move like them What happens is when you re an actor they stick that label on you Gay Alliance Has Gibson s Braveheart in Its Sights Daily News New York May 11 1995 Archived from the original on June 4 2011 Retrieved February 13 2010 Zoller Seitz Matt Mel Gibson talks about Braveheart movie stardom and media treachery Dallas Observer Archived from the original on January 26 2009 Retrieved January 27 2008 USA Today May 24 1995 Gibson has faith in family and freedom by Marco R della Cava Pollitt Katha March 11 2004 The Protocols of Mel Gibson The Nation Archived from the original on October 18 2010 Retrieved August 20 2008 a b Cattan Nacha March 5 2004 Passion Critics Endanger Jews Angry Rabbis Claim Attacking Groups Foxman fordward com Retrieved March 5 2004 Mel Gibson 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Times June 5 2011 Retrieved June 6 2011 Director says movie struck out in the U S because it s a dramedy Newsok com May 20 2011 Retrieved July 24 2011 Cieply Michael March 17 2011 Jodie Foster Talks About The Beaver and Mel Gibson The New York Times The Beaver Are We Ready to Forgive Mel Gibson Time May 4 2011 Jaafar Ali November 20 2014 Mel Gibson In Talks To Direct Hacksaw Ridge With Andrew Garfield Starring In War Hero Pic Deadline Hollywood Retrieved November 23 2014 Tartaglione Nancy September 5 2016 Mel Gibson s Hacksaw Ridge Rivets With 10 Minute Ovation At World Premiere Venice Deadline Hollywood Retrieved September 11 2016 Mel Gibson finds redemption with Hacksaw Ridge getting rave reviews New Zealand Herald September 6 2016 Retrieved December 25 2016 Hacksaw Ridge 2016 Rotten Tomatoes November 4 2016 Retrieved November 4 2016 Nordyke Kimberly January 24 2017 Oscars La La Land Ties Record With 14 Nominations The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved January 24 2017 Oscar Nominations 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