Mad Max: Fury Road beat Oscar best picture frontrunners Spotlight, Brooklyn, The Revenant, Carol, The Danish Girl and The Martian.
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The space drama “The Martian” won a best actor award for Matt Damon and best director for Ridley Scott, with the movie being named one of the nine top films of the year. Some would argue that it does not but no one can deny that many believe it is a remarkable film, even going so far as to call it the “ultimate feminist movie”.
Some top film critics have kept Mad Max in their top 10 list.
It was an unexpected victory for the summer tentpole starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, which received favorable reviews when it opened in May, but is seen as an awards season longshot. Sylvester Stallone was named best supporting actor for “Creed”, the acclaimed reboot of Stallone’s “Rocky” franchise.
To put it simply, NBR does not evaluate a film’s success based on how many millions of dollars a production earns at the box office, rather, it evaluates all the aspects of the production and weighs its aesthetic and cultural value.
Quentin Tarantino, meanwhile, picked up the original screenplay award for his new western The Hateful Eight, which also saw Jennifer Jason Leigh named best supporting actress.
“2015 has been a banner year for popular cinema”.
This year’s choices, in alphabetical order: “Bridge of Spies”, “Creed”, “The Hateful Eight”, “Inside Out”, “The Martian”, “Room”, “Sicario”, “Spotlight” and “Straight Outta Compton”.
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The Board of Review will present its awards at a ceremony in NY on January 5. They often get right what the Oscars get wrong; in 2005 they went with Good Night and Good Luck (Crash won the Oscar), they gave Zero Dark Thirty the prize in 2012 (Argo won the Oscar), and their ’70s winners included Polanski’s Macbeth, The Conversation, All the President’s Men, Nashville, and Manhattan.
