The 50-year-old actor did not appear before the Malibu Superior Court Judge Lawrence Mira – instead the actor's attorney entered a plea of no contest on his behalf.
The judge ordered the actor to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings five times a week for four and a half months and then three AA meetings per week for seven and a half more months, a total of one year.
He also ordered Gibson to enroll in an alcohol abuse program for three months.
In addition, Gibson was fined a total of $US1,300 dollars and his license was restricted for 90 days. In exchange for his plea, two remaining charges were dismissed.
The court did not address the actor’s anti-Jewish outburst during his July 28 arrest.
Gibson volunteered to perform in a public service announcement on the problems of drinking and driving, Deputy District Attorney Gina Satriano said, and he volunteered to immediately enter into rehabilitation.
"This was an appropriate outcome which addresses all the public safety concerns of drinking and driving," the attorney said.
Driving under influence
The Oscar winner was charged with driving under the influence, with a 0.08 or higher blood-alcohol content, after he was pulled over for speeding in Malibu, 25 kilometres west of Los Angeles.
He was also charged for allegedly having an open bottle of tequila in his car.
The TMZ.com celebrity website released a police report after the arrest, in which the devout Catholic director of "The Passion of the Christ" referred to "f...ing Jews" after his car was pulled over.
"The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," he was quoted as saying in the report after first asking the arresting police officer: "Are you a Jew?"
The actor, who won best film and best director Oscars for "Braveheart," checked into a detoxification program after the incident and apologised to the Jewish community.
Jewish groups reach out
The 1939 Club, one of world's largest Holocaust survivors' groups, followed New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage and a prominent Beverly Hills rabbi in reaching out to Gibson.
1939 Club president William Elperin said: "Our members are offering that help, by assisting Mr. Gibson in understanding the extremes of anti-Semitism and what they and their families - many of whom were slaughtered by the Nazis - endured."
David Marwell, the director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, said in a letter to Gibson that he took his public apology "very seriously."
"In that spirit, I would like to invite you to visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage - a Living Memorial to the Holocaust," Marwell said.
"We trust that you will not forget what has brought you to this point, but we would also like to support you in your efforts to create a better future," the statement said.
Rabbi David Baron, of the Beverly Hills-based Temple of the Arts, also sent a letter to Gibson, inviting him to speak at his synagogue for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which falls on October 1 this year.
However, ABC television network cancelled a miniseries about the Holocaust it planned to produce with Gibson's Icon Productions, and the actor-director has come under fierce criticism from his peers and the media.