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Mad Max

1979 film directed by George Miller
Movie film Q248775

Facts

44 properties
Instance of
film
Award received
AACTA Award for Best Editing, AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score[2][3]
Director
George Miller[4]
Genre
action film, thriller film, vigilante film, dystopian film[8][9][10][11]
Publication date
April 12, 1979, March 21, 1980, February 29, 1980[36][37][38]
Followed by
Mad Max 2[12]
Official website
www.madmaxonline.com[42]
Screenwriter
George Miller, Byron Kennedy[5][6]
Producer
Byron Kennedy, Bill Miller[24][25]
Part of the series
Mad Max[26]
Nominated for
AACTA Award for Best Film, AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, AACTA Award for Best Cinematography, AACTA Award for Best Costume Design, AACTA Award for Best Editing, AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score, AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Duration
+88
Aspect ratio (W:H)
2.35:1
Assessment
Bechdel test, Waithe Test, Shukla Test, reverse Bechdel Test, Mako Mori test, Vito Russo test, Riz Test, Feldman Test, Landau Test
Box office
+8750000, +5355490
CNC film rating (France)
X rating (incitement to violence), no minors under twelve, no minors under eighteen, no minors under sixteen
Capital cost
+200000
Cast member
Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward, Vincent Gil, Paul Johnstone, Reg Evans, Steve Clark, Tim Burns, Jonathan Hardy[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Color
color[34]
Composer
Brian May[7]
Country of origin
Australia[35]
Derivative work
Apocalypse X
Director of photography
David Eggby[28]
Distributed by
Roadshow Home Video, Netflix[39][40]
Show all 44 facts +20
Distribution format
video on demand[30]
EIRIN film rating
R15+
FSK film rating
FSK 16
Film editor
Clifford Hayes[51]
Filming location
Clunes[43]
Filmiroda rating
Category III
ICAA rating
not recommended for minors under 18
Kijkwijzer rating
16
MPA film rating
R
Main subject
revenge, failed state, amorality, anomie, gang, outlaw motorcycle club, societal collapse[44][45][46][47][48][49][50]
Narrative location
Australia[41]
Original language of film or TV show
Australian English[29]
P14449
3702
P14671
25684
P14724
8100534
P14821
79501
Production company
Kennedy Miller Mitchell[27]
Review score
7.7/10, 90%, 73/100[31][32][33]
Set in environment
desert
Title
Mad Max
🏷️ Also known as
en Mad Max ar ماد ماكس cs Mad Max cs Šílený Max el Μαντ Μαξ fa مکس دیوانه fr Bolides hurlants fr Matière hurlante he מקס הזועם it Mad Max - Interceptor it Interceptor it Mad Max ja マッドマックス ko 매드 맥스 ru Mad Max ru Безумный Макс th แมดแม็กซ์ tr Çılgın Max uk Mad Max uk Скажений Макс
🔖 Identifiers · 95
VIAF cluster ID
100172122082403160229
Library of Congress authority ID
no2015081277
ACMI ID
works/79359, works/113980, works/81392
AllMovie title ID
v30657
Allcinema film ID
22237
AlloCiné film ID
2041
Amazon Standard Identification Number
B000IZXR7U
Apple TV movie ID
umc.cmc.55tkmr9z7c6wgu8ylbuai4w3i
BFI Films, TV and people ID
4ce2b7bbaef5d
BFI National Archive work ID
150391482
BadTaste ID
interceptor
Bechdel Test Movie List ID
6290
Show all 95 identifiers +83
Box Office Mojo film ID (former scheme)
madmax
Cine.gr film ID (archived)
703122
CineMagia title ID
4793
Cinema.de ID
1297501
Cineplex Germany film ID
11987
Ciné-Ressources film ID
35153
Cinémathèque québécoise work ID
17133
Comic Vine ID
4025-2133
DNF film ID
834
Daum movie ID
10140
Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID
6324
Does the Dog Die? media ID
10438
Douban film ID
1295670
Dvdcompare.net film ID
17k (1.4k–56k, n=3)
EDb film ID
t0003137
EIDR content ID
10.5240/BDDA-6CEF-00DB-DDB6-7B58-A
ElCinema film ID
1645851
ElFilm film ID
79310
Elonet movie ID
129093
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID
mad_max
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Mad-Max
Exploitation mark number
51869
Fandango film ID
388
Fandom article ID
madmax:Mad_Max
Fernsehserien.de ID
filme/mad-max
FilmAffinity film ID
414907
FilmVandaag ID
film/7361
Filmfront film ID (archived)
1278
Filmová databáze film ID
16717
Filmweb.no film ID
23401
Filmweb.pl film ID
1495
Freebase ID
/m/01ly1t
Google Play Movies & TV ID
tT4Hna1V7es
ICAA film catalogue ID
512051
IMDb ID
tt0079501
ISzDb film ID
1384
ITunes movie ID
645.7M (250.9M–1.6B, n=6)
Il mondo dei doppiatori ID
film/interceptor
KINENOTE film ID
11193
Kinobox film ID
20202
Kinopoisk film ID
15067
LUMIERE film ID
2269
LdiF ID
21501
Letterboxd film ID
mad-max
MUBI film ID
3297
MYmovies audiovisual work ID
12126
Metacritic ID
movie/mad-max
Movie Walker Press film ID
mv11153
MovieMeter film ID
371
Moviepilot.de film ID
mad-max
Mtime movie ID
13647
NDL Authority ID
033540662
Netflix ID
725024
OFDb film ID
488
OMDb film ID
9659
PORT film ID
5683
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
マッドマックス
Plex media key
5d7768338718ba001e314118
Prisma ID
262601
Quora topic ID
Mad-Max-1979-movie
Reddit topic ID
mad_max
Rotten Tomatoes ID
m/mad_max
Schnittberichte.com title ID
1085
Scope.dk film ID
4630
Scripts.com script ID
13103
Sratim ID
tt1676
Swedish Film Database ID
50135
TCM Movie Database film ID
82279
TMDB movie ID
9659
TV Guide show ID (former scheme)
105064
TV Tropes ID
Film/MadMax1
TV.com ID
movies/mad-max
The Numbers movie ID
Mad-Max
TheTVDB movie ID
1370
Topic's main category
Category:Mad Max
Trakt.tv ID
movies/mad-max-1979
Trakt.tv film ID
4934
Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID
mad-max
Unconsenting Media ID
3964
Wikisimpsons article ID
185592
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Movie", "MadMax::4x94w"]
YouTube video ID
hYXS82gJpt0
ČSFD film ID
6722

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🔗 Connections
Cast member 9
Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Clark, Steve Bisley, Vincent Gil, Joanne Samuel, Jonathan Hardy, Roger Ward +1 more
Main subject 7
revenge, failed state, gang, anomie, amorality, societal collapse, outlaw motorcycle club
Genre 3
action film, thriller film, vigilante film
Nominated for 2
AACTA Award for Best Film, AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Screenwriter 2
George Miller, Byron Kennedy
Assessment 1
Bechdel test
Composer 1
Brian May
Country of origin 1
Australia
Created notable works 1
George Miller
Director 1
George Miller
Director of photography 1
David Eggby
Distributed by 1
Netflix
Distribution format 1
video on demand
Filming location 1
Clunes
Followed by 1
Mad Max 2
Followed by (predecessor) 1
Mad Max 2
Instance of 1
film
Narrative location 1
Australia
Original language of film or TV show 1
Australian English
Part of the series 1
Mad Max
Performer 1
Brian May
Producer 1
Byron Kennedy
Set in environment 1
desert
Topic's main category 1
Category:Mad Max
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Mad Max
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Summary

Mad Max is a film[1].

FAQs

What awards did Mad Max receive?

Honors received include AACTA Award for Best Editing[2] and AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score[3].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Director George Miller emerging0.805 independent sources

evidence “The Mad Max franchise is one that audiences love, but it isn't one that can succeed on the size of budget that George Miller needs to pull off his stories.” screenrant.com · read source

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Publication date 1979 low0.612 independent sources

evidence “The move would cap off Miller’s decades-long stewardship of the series that began with 1979’s original Mad Max and grew into a cultural phenomenon with Fury Road.” gamerheadlines.com · read source

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Australia film George Miller Mad Max 2 Mel Gibson Netflix

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  1. 25d ago · Kwayst · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14724 → 8100534
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  2. 6w ago · Turcoscandinavo · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Treccani's Enciclopedia del Cinema ID → mad-max
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  3. 9w ago · MsMorale · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14821 → 79501
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  4. 12w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  5. 14w ago · Yirba · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14671 → 25684
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  6. 18w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Publication date → +1979-04-12T00:00:00Z, +1980-03-21T00:00:00Z, +1980-02-29T00:00:00Z
    Screenwriter → George Miller, Byron Kennedy
    Does the Dog Die? media ID → 10438
    Duration → {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+88'}
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