List of awards and nominations received by Mel Gibson
Year Nominated work Category Result
1979 Tim Best Actor in a Leading Role Won
1981 Gallipoli Best Actor in a Leading Role Won
1982 The Year of Living Dangerously Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated
2002 N/A Global Achievement Award Won
2016 Hacksaw Ridge Best Direction Won
2017 Hacksaw Ridge Best International Direction Won
Other awards and nominations -- Australian Film Institute / AACTA Awards
This is a list of awards and nominations received by actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson. Gibson is best known as an action hero, for roles such as Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon buddy cop film series, and Max Rockatansky in the first three films in the Mad Max post-apocalyptic action series. He produced, directed, and starred in the epic historical drama film Braveheart, for which he won the Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for Best Director, along with the Academy Award for Best Picture. He later directed and produced the financially successful and controversial, biblical drama film The Passion of the Christ. He received further critical notice for his directorial work of the action-adventure film Apocalypto, which is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century. After a 10-year hiatus from directing, Gibson returned with the critically praised and financially successful Hacksaw Ridge, which won the Academy Awards for Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing and earned Gibson his second nomination for Best Director.