Mel Gibson Clicks Back to the Top of Hollywood's Roller Coaster

Hacksaw Ridge lands Gibson his second Oscar nomination for Best Director.

For the film year 1995, Mel Gibson was deemed by members of the Academy to be the Best Director, for Bravehart. A decade later, TMZ had him pegged as the town’s leading pariah. And now, for the year 2016, Gibson has nabbed his second Best Director Oscar nomination, for Hacksaw Ridge. On the heels of welcoming his ninth child.

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