Listen: George Miller Talks 'Mad Max' Continuity, Practical Effects, And More In 1 Hour Of 'Fury Road' Interviews

If you had told me at the beginning of 2015 that one of the major players in the Academy Awards race for Best Director would be George Miller — the mad Aussie responsible for envisioning the uncompromising wasteland of the “Mad Max” pictures — I’d have told you that you were out of your mind. And yet here we are, and “Mad Max: Fury Road,” having landed on many critic’s Top 10 of the year lists (including my own), has now racked up ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for Miller. It’s a neat feat, and reaffirming too: 'Fury Road' is, after all, a highly unusual and at times aggressively bizarre film, and it’s nice to know that genuinely unique, large-scale movies like this can still do well in both the critical and commercial spheres.

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In a new talk with the good folks at Studio 360, director George Miller chats about 'Fury Road' in...