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Mad Max: Fury Road

2015 · directed by George Miller · 121 min
27,334 feet · Prominence
58th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw71

Lifetime worldwide gross $379m, re-releases included; about $528m in 2026 money.

Rank555 of 11,051In 201520 of 306

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise96

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics94 baseAwards81 signal → +3 lift

Oscars6 won Costume Design, Production Design, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound, Sound Editing4 nominated Picture, Director, Cinematography, Visual Effects
Golden Globes2 nominated Best Picture, Screenplay
BAFTAs1 won Craft and other1 nominated Craft and other
How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy82

Judged directly: Sight & Sound, MC90; reset action filmmaking.

Verdict82 of 100IMDb8.1 from 1.2mWikipedia69k views a monthAge11 years

On the listsSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 89 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 71 praise 96 legacy 82averages 83, placing it at27,334 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Charlize Theron▲ Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

In these careers — elevation for this film

Charlize Theron20,764 ftTom Hardy20,359 ftNicholas Hoult19,438 ftZoë Kravitz18,099 ftRosie Huntington-Whiteley18,035 ftHugh Keays-Byrne18,009 ftRiley Keough17,663 ft