"depiction of history. The film holds a 76% approval rating at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 7.2/10, based on 72 reviews. The site's consensus states ""Distractingly violent and historically dodgy, Mel Gibson's ""Braveheart"" justifies its epic length by delivering enough sweeping action, drama, and romance to match its ambition."" The film also has a score of 68 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 20 critic reviews indicating ""generally favorable reviews"". Caryn James of ""The New York Times"" praised the film, calling it ""one of the most spectacular entertainments in years."" Roger Ebert gave the film"
"Mayer when producer Alan Ladd, Jr. picked up the project from Randall Wallace before Ladd departed from MGM. Despite initially declining, Gibson eventually decided to direct the film, as well as starring as Wallace. Budgeted around $65-70 million, ""Braveheart"" was produced by Gibson's Icon Productions and The Ladd Company; Paramount Pictures distributed the film in North America and 20th Century Fox released the film internationally. Released on May 25, 1995, ""Braveheart"" received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances, directing, production values, battle sequences, and musical score; but criticized its inaccuracies regarding Wallace's battles, titles, love interests, and"
"Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award. On its opening weekend, ""Braveheart"" grossed $9,938,276 in the United States and $75.6 million in its box office run in the U.S. and Canada. Worldwide, the film grossed $210,409,945 and was the thirteenth highest-grossing film of 1995. ""Braveheart"" earned positive reviews; critics praised Gibson's direction and performance as Wallace, the performances of its cast, and its screenplay, production values, Horner's score, and the battle sequences. The depiction of the Battle of Stirling Bridge was listed by CNN as one of the best battles in cinema history. However, it was also criticised for its"
"Braveheart (1925 film) Braveheart is a 1925 American silent western film directed by Alan Hale Sr. and starring Rod La Rocque. The story focuses on members of a tribe of Indians who are being intimidated by the owners of a canning company seeking to violate the treaty protecting the tribe's fishing grounds. A project by Cecil B. DeMille, initially it is named ""Strongheart"" after a play written by his brother William C. deMille circa 1904 and produced on Broadway in 1905 as his first major success. A film had been developed in 1914 from it. However, as the success of"
"speaker at the Fellowship Foundation National Prayer Breakfast on 3 February 2011. Wallace also served as the commencement speaker at the Liberty University graduation ceremony on May 14, 2011. Randall Wallace Randall Wallace is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the historical drama film ""Braveheart"" (1995). His work on the film earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America Award in the same category. He has since directed films such as ""The Man in the Iron Mask"" (1998), ""We Were"
"day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, ""Braveheart"" author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film. Several of the actors also attended including James Robinson (Young William), Andrew Weir (Young Hamish), Julie Austin (the young bride) and Mhairi Calvey (Young Murron). ""Braveheart"" was nominated for many awards during the 1995 Oscar season, though it was not viewed by many as a major contender such as ""Apollo 13"", """", ""Leaving Las Vegas"", ""Sense and Sensibility"","
"spent several years writing for television in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He gained recognition and commercial success by penning the screenplay for ""Braveheart"" (1995), which was inspired by a trip to Scotland to learn more about his Scottish roots. While there, he discovered the legend of the medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace; he is not, however, related to William Wallace in any way. ""Braveheart"" became Wallace’s first screenplay to be produced, after drawing the interest of director and star, Mel Gibson. It ended up as one of the most successful films of 1995, earning the Academy Award for"
"Randall Wallace Randall Wallace is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the historical drama film ""Braveheart"" (1995). His work on the film earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America Award in the same category. He has since directed films such as ""The Man in the Iron Mask"" (1998), ""We Were Soldiers"" (2002), ""Secretariat"" (2010) and ""Heaven Is for Real"" (2014). Born in Jackson, Tennessee, he lived in Memphis and Henderson County, Tennessee before moving to Virginia. Wallace began writing"
"""Braveheart"" (1995). Nearly a decade later, Gibson finally agreed to direct, a decision announced in November 2014. The same month, Andrew Garfield was confirmed to play the role of Desmond Doss. With a budget of $40 million, the team still faced many challenges. ""Hacksaw Ridge"" became an international co-production, with key players and firms located in both the United States and Australia. When Australian tax incentives were taken off the table, the film had to qualify as Australian to receive government subsidies. Despite being American-born, Gibson's early years in Australia helped the film qualify, along with most of the cast"
"Thunderheart Thunderheart is a 1992 contemporary western mystery film directed by Michael Apted from an original screenplay by John Fusco. The film is a loosely based fictional portrayal of events relating to the Wounded Knee incident in 1973, when followers of the American Indian Movement seized the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee in protest against federal government policy regarding Native Americans. Incorporated in the plot is the character of Ray Levoi, played by actor Val Kilmer, as an FBI agent with Sioux heritage investigating a murder on a Native American reservation. Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward and Sheila"
"he founded Icon Entertainment, a production company, which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called ""an alternative to the studio system"". Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the critically acclaimed World War I drama ""Gallipoli"" (1981), which earned Gibson a Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute, as well as a reputation as a serious, versatile actor. Gibson produced, directed, and starred in the epic historical drama film ""Braveheart"" (1995), for which he won the Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for Best Director, along with the Academy Award for Best Picture. He later"
"Ford Coppola, Edward Zwick, Cameron Crowe and The Wachowskis. He was presented with the ASC's Lifetime Achievement Award on February 14, 2016. He is married to Lois Burwell who also worked on ""Braveheart"" as the make-up artist (for which she won an Oscar, too). John Toll John Toll, A.S.C. (born June 15, 1952) is an American cinematographer. Toll's filmography spans a wide variety of genres, including epic period drama, comedy, science fiction, and contemporary drama. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in both 1994 and 1995 for ""Legends of the Fall"" and ""Braveheart"" respectively, and has also won"
"""Braveheart"" writer and ""Secretariat"" director Randall Wallace signed on to direct. On March 19, 2013, it was announced that Greg Kinnear was in talks to star, and he later joined the cast. On April 15, 2013, actress Kelly Reilly joined the film. On July 17, it was reported that composer Nick Glennie-Smith would score the film, and behind the scenes, the director of photography was Dean Semler. Shooting began in the last week of July 2013 in Selkirk, Manitoba. The film was released on April 16, 2014 and held a 3,048 theater count through its 4th week. At the end"
"Bulletproof Heart (film) Bulletproof Heart (also known as Killer) is a 1995 independent Canadian-American drama-thriller film directed by Mark Malone. It stars Anthony LaPaglia and Mimi Rogers, alongside a supporting cast featuring Matt Craven, Peter Boyle, Monika Schnarre, Joseph Maher, and Mark Acheson. The film first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Houston International Festival in 1994, and was later released to the United States and the United Kingdom in 1995. The story concerns a professional assassin Anthony LaPaglia who is pressured into accepting a new assignment as a favour to his boss Peter Boyle. He later finds"
"Dragonheart DragonHeart is a 1996 British-American fantasy action-adventure film directed by Rob Cohen. It stars Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, and the voice of Sean Connery. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and various other awards in 1996 and 1997. An English knight of 'The Old Code', Bowen, mentors a Saxon prince named Einon, in his ideals with the hope that he will be a better king than his tyrannical father King Freyne. While suppressing a peasant rebellion, the king is killed and Kara, a young peasant girl, accidentally causes Einon to"
"to a rise in anti-English prejudice"". Braveheart was released on DVD on August 29, 2000. It was released on Blu-ray which is part of the Paramount Sapphire Series on September 1, 2009. It was released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray, which is part of the 4K upgrade of the Paramount Sapphire series, on May 15, 2018. On February 9, 2018, a sequel titled ""Robert the Bruce"" was announced. The film will lead directly on from ""Braveheart"" and follow the widow Moira, portrayed by Anna Hutchison, and her family (portrayed by Gabriel Bateman and Talitha Bateman), who save Robert the Bruce, with"
"Sweethearts (1997 film) Sweethearts is a 1997 American independent film written and directed by Aleks Horvat and starring Janeane Garofalo and Mitch Rouse. The supporting cast features Margaret Cho and Bobcat Goldthwait as well as a cameo appearance by singer/guitarist Stephen Malkmus of the band Pavement. Arliss meets Jasmine on a blind date at a coffee house, but it turns out Jasmine has bipolar, carrying a gun and contemplating suicide. Jasmine introduces herself to Arliss as ""Emily"", a fake character she created to pretend she is not his date. She pretends to be somebody else that went to the same"
"over the 66th ceremony in 1994. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Richard Dreyfuss. ""Braveheart"" won five awards, including Best Director for Mel Gibson and Best Picture. Other winners included ""Apollo 13"", ""Pocahontas"", ""Restoration"" and ""The Usual Suspects"" with two awards, and ""Anne Frank Remembered"", ""Antonia's Line"", ""Babe"", ""A Close Shave"", ""Dead Man Walking"", """", ""Leaving Las Vegas"", ""Lieberman in Love"", ""Mighty Aphrodite"", ""One Survivor Remembers"" and ""Sense and Sensibility"" with one. The telecast garnered almost"
"Ladd Jr. initially had the project at MGM-Pathé Communications when he picked up the script from Wallace. When MGM was going through new management in 1993, Ladd left the studio and took some of its top properties, including ""Braveheart"". Gibson picked up the script and although he liked it, he initially passed on it. However, the thought of it kept coming back to him and he ultimately decided to take on the project. Gibson's production company, Icon Productions, had difficulty raising enough money even if he were to star in the film. Warner Bros. was willing to fund the project"
"""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"". Scofield said of Gibson ""Not the sort of actor you'd think would make an ideal Hamlet, but he had enormous integrity and intelligence."" In 1995, Mel 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"
"It was the first film produced by Icon Productions, a production company he co-founded with Bruce Davey. Gibson's directorial debut was ""The Man Without a Face"" (1993), an adaptation of Isabelle Holland's novel of the same name. Two years later he directed and produced ""Braveheart"", a historical epic drama in which he also portrayed Sir William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish knight. The film earned him a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Director, and the film won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Gibson went on to star in ""Ransom"" (1996), ""Payback"" (1999), ""What Women Want"" and"
"effort. In winning the Academy Award for Best Director, Gibson became only the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to do so. ""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. 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"
"Wild at Heart (film) Wild at Heart is a 1990 American neo-noir black comedy-crime film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford's 1989 novel of the same name, starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, and Isabella Rossellini. Both the book and the film revolve around Sailor Ripley (Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Dern), a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina, who go on the run from her domineering mother and the gangsters she hires to kill Sailor. Lynch was originally going to produce, but after reading Gifford's book, he"
"Lionheart (1990 film) Lionheart (also known as Wrong Bet, A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave, Leon and Full Contact) is a 1990 action film, directed by Sheldon Lettich, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and co-starring Brian Thompson, along with Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Lisa Pelikan, and Ashley Johnson. The film stars Van Damme as paratrooper legionnaire; Leon Gaultier. when his brother is seriously injured he returns to Los Angeles to enter the underground fighting circuit to raise money for his brother's family. The film's cast and crew included two people who had appeared in an earlier Van Damme film: Michel Qissi (a good"
"his unfinished work, ""Mortimer His Fall"". The filmmaker Derek Jarman adapted the Marlowe play into a film in 1991, creating a postmodern pastiche of the original, depicting Edward as a strong, explicitly homosexual leader, ultimately overcome by powerful enemies. In Jarman's version, Edward finally escapes captivity, following the tradition in the Fieschi letter. Edward's current popular image was also shaped by his contrasting appearance in Mel Gibson's 1995 film ""Braveheart"", where he is portrayed as weak and implicitly homosexual, wearing silk clothes and heavy makeup, shunning the company of women and incapable of dealing militarily with the Scots. The film"
"Crazy Heart Crazy Heart is a 2009 American drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. The film centers around a down-and-out country music singer-songwriter (Jeff Bridges) who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Other supporting roles are played by Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, and child actor Jack Nation. Bridges, Farrell, and Duvall also sing in the film. The novel on which the film was based was inspired by country singer Hank Thompson. Bridges earned the 2009"
"Hunter, Black Heart"" (1990) with Clint Eastwood, ""Patriot Games"" (1992) with Harrison Ford, ""Braveheart"" (1995) starring Mel Gibson and """" (2006) with Johnny Depp. He played Captain Bellamy, a captain of a supposedly haunted ship; a rumour sparked the discovery of Elizabeth Swann's dress on board. Norton's character Bellamy picked up the character of William Turner who was lost at sea. This decision ultimately lead to his death by the Kraken. This role was suited to Norton to play because of his Scottish roots. He portrayed a perfectly believable, honest and logical Scottish Pirate. Norton also voiced Thurston McCondry in"
"Bravehearted Bravehearted is an album by the American duo the Bravehearts. It includes Nas's brother Jungle and fellow friend Wiz. The album, however, did not sell well due to little promotion, it only came in at number 75 in the Billboard 200 Charts and 20 in the Hip Hop/R&B Charts. Besides Nas releasing an album off his Ill Will Records, Bravehearts were the only other label members to release a record off this label. The album had one single, ""Quick to Back Down"". The track was produced by Lil Jon and featured Nas and Lil Jon on the track. The"
"hating her for pointing a gun at him. Janeane Garofalo ... Jasmine<br> Mitch Rouse ... Arliss<br> Margaret Cho ... Noreen<br> Bobcat Goldthwait ... Charles<br> Van Quattro ... Officer Carter<br> Buckley Norris ... Asylum patron<br> Vinnie Bilancio ... Officer Felliciano<br> Stephen Malkmus ... Coffee House Singer<br> Debby Barkan ... Girl in Floral Dress<br> Patricia Peralta ... Girl in Shop Window<br> Dayna West ... Girl in Black Sweethearts (1997 film) Sweethearts is a 1997 American independent film written and directed by Aleks Horvat and starring Janeane Garofalo and Mitch Rouse. The supporting cast features Margaret Cho and Bobcat Goldthwait as well as"
"Sweetheart (2019 film) Sweetheart is an upcoming American survival horror film directed by J.D. Dillard, written by Dillard, Alex Theurer and Alex Hyner, and starring Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence and Benedict Samuel. It was produced by Jason Blum, Dillard, Theurer, Hyner and Bill Karesh. It will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2019. Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn’t take her long to realize she’s completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes"
"when the studio said the amount he asked for to both star in the film and direct it was too expensive. After working with de Laurentiis on """" in 1993, Rob Cohen agreed to take over as director for the film. Johnson said he harbored no ill-will for Cohen taking over the project until he ""started hearing the horror stories about how Chuck Pogue was being treated, and then I started seeing Rob taking credit for things that weren't his to take credit for."" Notably on the """"Making of Dragonheart"""" featurette on the DVD, Cohen says he was aware of"
"longevity for a portable game. They especially praised the storyline, with Sushi X going so far as to say it was the main reason he kept playing the game. Dragonheart DragonHeart is a 1996 British-American fantasy action-adventure film directed by Rob Cohen. It stars Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, and the voice of Sean Connery. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and various other awards in 1996 and 1997. An English knight of 'The Old Code', Bowen, mentors a Saxon prince named Einon, in his ideals with the hope that he will"
"Mighty Aphrodite Mighty Aphrodite is a 1995 American romantic comedy film written, directed by, and co-starring Woody Allen, alongside Mira Sorvino, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Rapaport, and F. Murray Abraham. The screenplay was inspired by the story of ""Pygmalion"" and is about Lenny Weinrib's (Allen) search for his genius adopted son's biological mother, ultimately finding that she is a dim-witted prostitute named Linda Ash (Sorvino). While critical reception of ""Mighty Aphrodite"" overall was mildly positive, Sorvino was widely praised for her performance, winning the 1995 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a Golden Globe Award, New York"