Braveheart won an Academy Award for Best Makeup in 1920.
The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards at the 68th Academy Awards and won five : Best Picture , Best Director , Best Cinematography , Best Makeup , and Best Sound Editing.
The 68th Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -LRB- AMPAS -RRB- , honored the best films of 1995 in the United States and took place on March 25 , 1996 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST..
