Things are looking up again for Mel Gibson, after the fallout over his drink driving conviction.
At the weekend he won the Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Award at the fifth annual Irish Film and Television Academy Awards in Dublin.
It’s the first award of its kind to be presented by the Academy.
Gibson, 52, has starred in more than 48 film and television productions in a career that spans over four decades.
He is best known in Ireland for 1994’s Braveheart, which he starred in and directed in Ireland.
The award came after a Judge Lawrence Mira praised Gibson’s progress in a US court-ordered alcohol rehabilitation program.
She wished him good luck and said he need not report his progress any more to the court.
Gibson will remain on probation for a further 18 months.
Source: SMH