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1995
Color
2 hours and 57 minutes
Academy Awards
- Best Picture
- Bruce Davey
Mel Gibson
Alan Ladd Jr.- Director
- Mel Gibson
- Cinematography
- John Toll
- Effects, Sound Effects Editing
- Lon Bender Per Hallberg
- Makeup
- Lois Burwell
Peter Frampton
Paul Pattison
Academy Award Nominations
- Costume Design
- Charles Knode
- Film Editing
- Steven Rosenblum
- Original Dramatic Score
- James Horner
- Sound
- Anna Behlmer
Scott Millan
Andy Nelson (I)
Brian Simmons- Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- Randall Wallace
Braveheart is the only fact-based story from the High Middle Ages to have won a Best Picture Oscar. That alone makes it worth a look for any medieval movie buff, but there are other benefits, as well (and I don't just mean Mel Gibson in a kilt).
In spite of its inaccuracies, the film manages to convey an impressive sense of 13th-century Britain. Gibson is suitably intense as the revenge-driven hero, and Patrick McGoohan is deliciously cold as the hard-hearted Edward Longshanks. Particularly delightful is David O'Hara as Stephen, an Irishman who isn't entirely grounded in reality. Excellent cinematography captures the hauntingly beautiful Scottish countryside, towering castles, and horrifying battles with equal impact.
All in all, it's a worthwhile cinematic journey into the past, though at close to three hours in length you may want to plan on an intermission.
Find out more about William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in Who's Who in Medieval History.
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