Moorhouse’s The Dressmaker, which is still showing in cinemas, is only $4 million shy of Mad Max: Fury Road’s $22m box office receipts. 2015 has been the best year for Australian cinema since 2001 (when Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge was the major local drawcard). The fourth film in the Mad Max franchise was produced and partly shot in Australia, and the blockbuster’s May release was a major fillip to the domestic box office. Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron are the hardened heroes of. Best achievement in film editing: I see a lot of answers saying Mad max used. Visionary director George Miller drives the creative engine that fuels this cinematic fever dream with poetic rage and balletic brutality. Why you say First lets review the areas where Fury Road won an award to see. In accepting the Best Film award, Miller spoke of the “gravitational pull back to this country”, which brings so many of Australia’s internationally recognised cast and crew home to keep working on local productions. 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. with her family but spoke of the difficulty Gillian Armstrong faced in getting studio backing to cast Blanchett opposite Ralph Fiennes, in 1997’s Oscar And Lucinda. The multiple award winner was tearful as she accepted the award from friends and collaborators, Gillian Armstrong, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving, after a video tribute from Ridley Scott, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes.īlanchett is set to relocate to the U.S. In other awards, Cate Blanchett received a special industry achievement award for her services to the Australian screen industry. In another acting gong for The Dressmaker, Hugo Weaving seemed as surprised as everyone else when his name was called to the stage of Sydney’s The Star casino complex. Her onscreen mum, Judy Davis, was the odds-on favourite to win Best Supporting Actress, which she did. Winslet accepted her award via smartphone video selfie.
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s retro western The Dressmaker won the AACTA People’s Choice Award at the Sydney event, and Kate Winslet won the Best Actress award for her lead performance (and convincing accent) as a spiteful Aussie seamstress in outback 1950s Australia. The fourth movie in the saga, Mad Max: Fury Road, swept the Academy Awards on Sunday night, Los Angeles time. Mad Max: Fury Road has scooped the pool at Australia’s top film awards, the AACTAs, with George Miller’s high-action epic scoring wins in eight of its 11 nominated categories, including best film and best director.