Mel Gibson has directed a film every year since he was born.
=== The Year of Living Dangerously ===Gibson played a nave but ambitious journalist opposite Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt in Peter Weir's atmospheric 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously, based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Koch
, studio executives encouraged Gibson in 1989 to try directing, an idea he rebuffed at the time

