So, what’s next for George Miller?
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On his plans for more movies: “What happened to Max after “Fury Road”?”.
The Wrap had a chance to speak with Miller about the Oscar nominations (10!) for Fury Road and to clear the air regarding that freakish Page Six report.
The Best Actress contenders include Cate Blanchett (“Carol”), Brie Larson (“Room”), Saoirse Ronan (“Brooklyn”), Jennifer Lawrence (“Joy”), and Charlotte Rampling (“45 Years”).
“The Revenant”, a frontier revenge tale directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, drew 12 nominations in total – the most of any film – with Leonardo DiCaprio honored for his wounded trapper and Tom Hardy for his villainous supporting role.
Veteran Queensland-born filmmaker Miller had planned to shoot Fury Road in the Australian outback, but when unseasonal rain turned the arid landscape into lovely wildflowers he was forced to move it to the west African nation of Namibia.
Miller was originally quoted after the Golden Globes as saying he wouldn’t make more Mad Max movies, yet he corrected himself to EW.
The nominations were announced by directors Guillermo del Toro, Ang Lee, actor John Krasinski, and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles. “All I said was it won’t be the film I do next”, said Miller.
If last year’s awards season was dominated by smaller films such as “Birdman” and “Boyhood”, this year the Oscars are going big.
The other best picture nominees are: The Revenant, The Martian, Room, Spotlight, Brooklyn, The Big Short and Bridge of Spies.
Best original score: “Bridge of Spies”, “Carol”, “The Hateful Eight”, “Sicario”, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”. Seeing herself nominated alongside veterans such as Kate Winslet, who earned a nomination for “Steve Jobs”, was thrilling, she said.
Australia’s previous record for nominees was in 2002 when Baz Lurhmann’s Moulin Rouge made up most of a 13-strong Australian contingent.
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The red carpet and pomp and ceremony of the 88th Academy Awards on February 28 will be a world away from the brutally hot, and subzero conditions they faced shooting the film in the desert in Namibia.
