Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015 Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller, the creator of the original Mad Max trilogy. Set in a barren desert wasteland where civilization has collapsed and brutal warlords control the last reserves of fuel and water, the film follows Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), a haunted drifter captured by the sadistic tyrant Immortan Joe and used as a blood donor. Forced to accompany a war convoy into the wasteland, Max is chained to the hood of a war vehicle driven by Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a one-armed lieutenant who has smuggled Joe's enslaved wives out of his Citadel in a desperate bid for freedom.

What follows is essentially one continuous chase across the desert — a two-hour action symphony staged almost entirely in-camera using real vehicles, stuntwork, and practical explosions. George Miller shot the film primarily in the Namib Desert of Namibia after his planned Australian locations received too much rain and bloomed green rather than the required barren desolation. The film features Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron as co-leads of equal narrative weight, with Nicholas Hoult as Nux, a deluded War Boy who undergoes a quiet redemptive arc amid the operatic carnage. The film's design language — from the flame-throwing guitar player perched on a wall of speakers to the masks and vehicles of Immortan Joe's war band — is dense with internal mythology and craft.

Mad Max: Fury Road premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released worldwide on May 15, 2015, to near-universal critical acclaim — it holds a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. At the 88th Academy Awards, the film won six Oscars: Film Editing, Production Design, Costume Design, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing — the most of any film that year. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest action films ever made and a landmark of practical, in-camera filmmaking in the digital effects era.