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Mel Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American-born Australian-reared movie actor, director, and producer best known for his role in the Lethal Weapon series and Braveheart.
Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York as one of 11 children, but raised in Australia from the age of 12. He maintained his U.S. citizenship.
In 1996 he received two Academy Awards (Best Director and Best Picture) for the film Braveheart (1995).
Following a victory on the Jeopardy! game show, Gibson's father Hutton moved his family to Australia in the 1970s in protest of the Vietnam War and because he believed that changes in American society were immoral.
Hutton is a member of the "traditionalist" Catholic Church, who believes that the Mass should still be said in Latin and that all of the Second Vatican Council is in error. Hutton Gibson holds that the Second Vatican Council was a secret anti-Christian plot by both Masons and Jews. These are widely viewed as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Hutton also holds to other conspiracy theories, such as his claim that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were not carried out Saudi Arabian Muslim onboard the plane, but rather were carried out by "remote control" by a different party.
Hutton is a Holocaust denial; he claims that it is impossible for the Holocaust to have happened, since, in his view, there would be no way to get rid of so many bodies. He claims that "There weren't even that many Jews in all of Europe, and says that there were more Jews in Europe after World War II, statements disputed by all historians. In support of his father, Mel Gibson claims that his father's beliefs do not amount to Holocaust denial,
Mel Gibson has made a number of public statements recently supporting his father's views, and has donated money to financed the construction of a traditionalist cathedral in Malibu, California called Holy Family.
The Passion
Mel Gibson recent complete the controversial movie, The Passion, a 12-hour film in the Aramaic language. The movie has received praise by many conservative Christians, but has been heavily criticised by both Catholic and Jewish scholars as promoting anti-Semitism, as violating Catholic teachings on the New Testament, as including many gross historical errors of fact. When a commitee of interfaith scholars attempted to work with Mr. Gibson on the issue, all efforst were rebuffed for several months. When an interfaith committee eventually wrote a review of the script, Mel Gibson threatened them with legal action.
Related Materials
Selected Filmography
- Signs (2002)
- We Were Soldiers (2002)
- Chicken Run (2000)
- The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
- The Patriot (2000)
- What Women Want (2000)
- PayBack (1999)
- Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
- Conspiracy Theory (1997)
- Fairy Tale: A True Story (1997, uncredited)
- Father's Day (1997, uncredited)
- Ransom (1996)
- Braveheart (1995, also directed)
- Pocahontas (1995, voice)
- Maverick (1994)
- The Man Without a Face (1993, also directed)
- Forever Young (1992)
- Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
- Air America (1990)
- Bird on a Wire (1990)
- Hamlet (1990)
- Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
- Tequila Sunrise (1998)
- Lethal Weapon (1987)
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
- The Bounty (1984)
- Mrs. Soffle (1984)
- The River (1984)
- Attack Force Z (1982)
- The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
- Gallipoli (1981)
- Mad Max (1979)
- Tim (1979)
- Summer City (1977)