Oscars 2016: Australia’s Mad Max: Fury Road triumphs

In the biggest award of the night, best picture, Mad Max: Fury Road has blown out to 100/1 long-shot odds, placing it well behind 2/5 favourite The Revenant, Spotlight (10/3), The Big Short (13/2) and Room (40/1).

At the awards in Los Angeles on Monday, Margaret Sixel won the Oscar for film editing for Fury Road, Jenny Beavan for costume design, Mark Mangini and David White for sound editing, Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo for sound mixing and Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson won for production design. Blanchett won the best supporting actress Osca in 2004 for “The Aviator” and the best-actress Oscar for “Blue Jasmine” in 2013. You can often count the list on one hand but this year is special with Mad Max: Fury Road nominated in 10 categories.

Film Editing: “Mad Max: Fury Road”. Such a sparsely-awarded best picture victor hasn’t happened since 1952’s “The Greatest Show On Earth”.

Lou Gossett Jr., an Oscar victor for “An Officer and a Gentleman”, said on the red carpet that often Hollywood is ahead of society, but in the case of diversity, “society is ahead of us”.

Leonardo DiCaprio, who’s 0-fer as an acting nominee, is expected to finally take home a trophy for his performance in that film, in which he played an 1820s trapper, Hugh Glass.

But for everyone else – now is the time to decide which provocative films best deserve the Academy Awards’ top prize! “I think he’s the sentimental favorite”. However, the “In my city’ singer did a fairly good job!”

However, Hussey likes Mark Rylance, who portrays a Soviet spy in Steven Spielberg’s period drama “Bridge of Spies” that also stars Tom Hanks as an American negotiator. “Director George Miller spent years in development hell trying to get this made, with so many setbacks, so I feel like he deserves it for going through all of that and creating something so thrilling, so fun and so cinematic”.

Also nominated is Jennifer Lawrence, who is seeking her second best- actress Oscar for her work as a budding entrepreneur in “Joy“.

Matthews believes Vikander’s main competition is Rooney Mara, whose character has an affair with an older woman in 1952 in “Carol”.

Original Score: “The Hateful Eight“. Particularly in regards to numerous awards for the visual aspects of filmmaking, the move absolutely cleaned up.

And even with the unexpected attention towards Mad Max, Miller has already received some recognition before with an Oscar for Happy Feet in 2007, for best animated feature.