Icon Film Distribution (Australia and New Zealand)
Release dates
September 4, 2016 (2016-09-04) (Venice)
November 3, 2016 (2016-11-03) (Australia)
November 4, 2016 (2016-11-04) (United States)
Running time
139 minutes[2]
Countries
United States
Australia
Language
English
Budget
$40 million[3][4]
Box office
$180.5 million[5]
Hacksaw Ridge is a 2016 biographical war film directed by Mel Gibson and written by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector directed by Terry Benedict.
The film focuses on the World War II experiences of Desmond Doss, an American pacifist combat medic who, as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, refused to carry or use a weapon or firearm of any kind. Doss became the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for service above and beyond the call of duty during the Battle of Okinawa. Andrew Garfield stars as Doss, with Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Vince Vaughn and Richard Pyros in supporting roles.
Filming took place in Australia from September to December 2015. Hacksaw Ridge was released in the United States on November 4, 2016, grossing $180.5 million worldwide, and received critical acclaim, with Gibson's direction and Garfield's performance earning particular praise. It was widely viewed as a return to form for Gibson, whose career had been in decline following several controversies. Hacksaw Ridge was chosen by the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of their top ten films of 2016 respectively,[6][7] and received numerous awards and nominations. The film received six Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Garfield, and Best Sound Editing, winning the awards for Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing.[8][9] It received Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor,[10] and 12 Australian Academy Award nominations, winning the majority, including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor for Garfield, and Best Supporting Actor for Weaving.
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HacksawRidge is a 2016 biographical war film directed by Mel Gibson and written by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on the 2004 documentary...
HacksawRidge is a 2016 biographical war film, directed by Mel Gibson from a screenplay by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan, and based on the 2004 documentary...
documentary The Conscientious Objector, and the 2016 Oscar-winning film HacksawRidge, in which he was portrayed by Andrew Garfield. Desmond Thomas Doss was...
for HacksawRidge (2016) AACTA Awards, Best Direction, for HacksawRidge (2016) Hollywood Film Awards, Hollywood Director Award, for HacksawRidge (2016)...
roles in All the Devil's Men, Breaking & Exiting, Gangster Land, and HacksawRidge. Gibson was born in Australia and raised in Malibu, California. Gibson...
appeared in a supporting role in Mel Gibson's biographical war drama HacksawRidge, and in the docudrama miniseries When We Rise, written by Dustin Lance...
Monte Carlo, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, The November Man, Point Break, and HacksawRidge; and for television series such as Home and Away, which was his first...
Unfinished Business (2015). He returned to serious genres with roles in HacksawRidge (2016), Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017), and Dragged Across Concrete (2018)...
of The Shae Foundation. Benedict co-produced HacksawRidge, nominated for six Academy Awards. HacksawRidge is based on Benedict's documentary, The Conscientious...
other dramatic roles, appearing in The Debt (2010), Everest (2015), HacksawRidge (2016), The Shack (2017), Manhunt (2017), and Fractured (2019). He has...
(2013), The Expendables 3 (2014), and Blood Father (2016). He directed HacksawRidge in 2016, a biographical war drama focusing on American World War II...
recognition for starring in the films Warm Bodies (2013), Lights Out (2016), HacksawRidge (2016), and Berlin Syndrome (2017). She also starred in, co-wrote, and...
Gibson returned with the critically praised and financially successful HacksawRidge, which won the Academy Awards for Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing...
Academy Award for Best Actor for starring as Desmond Doss in the war film HacksawRidge (2016) and as Jonathan Larson in the musical Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021)...
starred as Detective Golan Cohen in the TV-series Dig and in the movie HacksawRidge. Pfeffer was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He served as a soldier in the...
Best Actress for Emma Stone and Best Director for Damien Chazelle. HacksawRidge and Manchester by the Sea won two awards each with Casey Affleck winning...
demonstrating courage and saving many lives as a combat medic. In 2016, HacksawRidge, a fictional film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Andrew Garfield...
named after him), and of screenwriter/film producer Gregory Crosby (HacksawRidge). Dennis Crosby attended Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose...
action director and/or stunt coordinator for films such as Braveheart, HacksawRidge, The Fast and The Furious, and Twister. A member of the Academy of Motion...
(December 8, 2016). "AFI Awards: Best Of 2016 List Includes 'Silence', 'HacksawRidge' & More". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December...
Vaughn recommended Zahler to Gibson, who he previously worked with in HacksawRidge, and Gibson agreed to star in the film, later followed by Kittles and...
com.au. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017. "Mel Gibson and HacksawRidge clean up at AACTA Awards". ABC News. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 7 October...
Duggan worked on 300: Rise of an Empire, Duncan Jones' Warcraft, and HacksawRidge, which marked Mel Gibson's return to directing after 2006's Apocalypto...
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