Mad Max: Fury Road steamrolls the Oscars
THE Aussies came, saw and conquered at today's Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
It was already a record year with 15 Australians nominated.
While leading lady Cate Blanchett lost out on Best Actress to Brie Larson, eight Australians did take home awards thanks to the technical achievements of Mad Max: Fury Road.
All of the winners thanked Chinchilla-born director George Miller for his creative vision they helped to bring to life on the big screen.
"Us Mad Maxers are doing OK tonight," said Best Editing winner and Miller's partner Margaret Sixel.
"To be honored tonight is more than we could even have hoped for."
Other first-time Aussie nominees and winners from the Mad Max crew included Damian Martin, Elka Wardega and Lesley Vanderwalt for hair and makeup, Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson for production design, David White for sound editing and Ben Osmo for sound mixing.
The film bagged six Academy Awards in total. The Revenant won three but was surprisingly pipped to the Best Picture award by Spotlight, which also won Best Original Screenplay.
2016 Oscars winners
Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight*
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant*
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room*
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Best Director
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant*
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies*
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl*
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Best Foreign Language Film
Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
Mustang (France)
Son of Saul (Hungary)*
Theeb (Jordan)
A War (Denmark)
Best Animated Feature
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out*
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There
Best Documentary Feature
Amy*
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
Best Documentary Short Film
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness*
Last Day of Freedom
Best Original Screenplay
Bridge of Spies - Matt Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Ex Machina - Alex Garland
Inside Out - Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley and Ronnie Del Carmen
Spotlight - Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy*
Straight Outta Compton - Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge and Alan Wenkus
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short - Charles Randolph and Adam McKay*
Brooklyn - Nick Hornby
Carol - Phyllis Nagy
The Martian - Drew Goddard
Room - Emma Donoghue
Best Cinematography
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant*
Sicario
Best Original Score
Thomas Newman, Bridge of Spies
Carter Burwell, Carol
Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight*
Johann Johannsson, Sicario
John Williams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Original Song
Earned It from Fifty Shades of Grey
Manta Ray from Racing Extinction
Simple Song #3 from Youth
Til It Happens To You from The Hunting Ground
Writing's On The Wall from Spectre*
Best Visual Effects
Ex Machina*
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Costume Design
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Carol
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road, Jenny Beavan*
Best Production Design
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
The Martian
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road*
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road*
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant
Best Editing
The Big short
Spotlight
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road*
Best Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road*
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Sound Mixing
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road*
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
