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Mad Max: Fury Road garnered seven nominations at the 69th British Academy Film Awards, and won four for Best Production Design, Best Editing, Best Makeup & Hair, and Best Costume Design. At the 5th AACTA Awards, the film received fifteen nominations, and won ten including Best Film, and Best Direction for Miller.
AwardWonNominated10156101111AFI Awards, USA. 2016 Winner AFI Award. Movie of the Year. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD explodes with apocalyptic anarchy - a journey of fire and blood through which the action genre is razed to the ground and reborn.
Accolades. At the 88th Academy Awards, Mad Max: Fury Road received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects; and won Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.
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- Tom Holkenborg
- $154.6–185.1 million
- Doug Mitchell, George Miller, PJ Voeten
Feb 28, 2016, 9:39 PM PST. The biggest win of the evening may have gone to Spotlight, but it was another film entirely that really won this year's Oscars. Mad Max: Fury Road took home six...
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Mad Max: Fury Road, Australian postapocalyptic science-fiction action film, released in 2015, that is considered one of the greatest action films ever made. Directed by George Miller, the film is the fourth entry in the Mad Max series, and it serves as a reboot of the franchise after a 30-year hiatus. Mad Max: Fury Road was a commercial success and...
The first Mad Max movie, 1979’s Mad Max, featured Australian actor Mel Gibson as a police officer in a near-future dystopia. In its 1981 sequel, The Road Warrior, Max had been reduced to a drifter, albeit one willing to help a small community resist attacks by bandits. Gibson played Max for a third and final time in 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, in which Max tries to protect a group of abandoned children as they rebel against the warlord Aunty Entity, played by Tina Turner.
The Mad Max franchise stood idle for years, until film series creator Miller attempted to move forward with a fourth film in 2001, again starring Gibson. However, after the September 11 attacks, that plan fell through, and, by the time Miller was able to try again, Gibson was too old for the part, and the actor had become unpopular as a result of high-profile misbehavior. Miller considered an animated sequel, but only briefly—instead the character was recast. At one point, actor Heath Ledger was the front-runner to land the role, but his untimely death in 2008 forced Miller to go another route. Eventually, Tom Hardy was cast, and the film was finally able to move forward nearly 30 years after the previous installment.
Mad Max: Fury Road is set in a postapocalyptic Australia in which the warlord Immortan Joe (played by Hugh Keays-Byrne) rules his territory by controlling the water supply. Max Rockatansky, a former police officer haunted by the memories of people he failed to save, is captured by Joe’s “War Boys,” a force of sickly but brutal warriors. Meanwhile, Joe’s imperator (military leader), Furiosa, is charged with taking a tanker truck called the “War Rig” to acquire fuel from Joe’s allies in Gas Town. However, Furiosa goes off course, and Joe realizes that she has betrayed him and facilitated the escape of his five captive wives, including The Splendid Angharad (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), who is pregnant.
Joe sends his War Boys to bring the five wives back. Max is bound to a car and brought along as a “blood bag,” attached by both a chain and a transfusion line to one of the War Boys, Nux (Nicholas Hoult), to feed him healthy blood during the pursuit. A battle commences in which Furiosa tries to protect the wives and escape from Joe’s forces, while Max tries to survive and free himself from his bonds.
When Furiosa drives into a sandstorm to evade the attacking cars, Nux attempts to blow himself up to stop her, seeking a glorious death. Max manages to stop him, but their car is destroyed by Furiosa. Max survives and drags the unconscious Nux through the desert, finding the wives and Furiosa, who is repairing her damaged War Rig. Max holds the women at gunpoint and forces them to help him escape, and a fight breaks out. Nux awakens and helps Max subdue Furiosa and the wives, but Max has no interest in going back to Joe with Nux and instead attempts to hijack the War Rig himself. However, he does not know the code to allow him to drive it, so he forms a tentative alliance with Furiosa and the other women. They drive the War Rig back toward Joe’s territory, setting up a confrontation with him.
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Mad Max: Fury Road grossed more than $380 million worldwide against a $150 million budget. One of the most critically acclaimed films of the year, it was lauded for its explosive, inventive action sequences and apocalyptic production design and in particular for Theron’s powerful performance as Furiosa. In a 2019 RogerEbert.com article about the best films of the 2010s, film critic Christy Lemire reflected:
Revisiting the film now, I found it working its magic on a different area of the body: the heart. Because while it was already a moving assertion of feminine strength, it feels like an even more vital declaration of independence in the months and years following the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. This is a film about a group of women who dare to break free of the greedy and grotesque man who’d abused and exploited them for far too long.
•Studios: Kennedy Miller Productions, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures
•Director: George Miller
•Producers: George Miller and Doug Mitchell
•Writers: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nick Lathouris
•Music: Tom Holkenborg
•Cinematographer: John Seale
•Tom Hardy (Max Rockatansky)
•Charlize Theron (Imperator Furiosa)
•Nicholas Hoult (Nux)
•Hugh Keays-Byrne (Immortan Joe)
•Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (The Splendid Angharad)
•Zoë Kravitz (Toast the Knowing)
- Stephen Eldridge
May 15, 2015 · Mad Max: Fury Road: Directed by George Miller. With Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.
Jan 18, 2016 · Carol. Mad Max: Fury Road. The Martian. The Revenant. Room. Sicario. Winner: Spotlight. BEST ACTOR. Bryan Cranston – Trumbo. Matt Damon – The Martian. Johnny Depp – Black Mass. Michael...
