Mad Max: Fury Road

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The dialogue script (3,666 words).

         Miller recruited his wife, Margaret Sixel, to edit the film, as he felt she could make it stand out from other action films. Sixel had 480 hours of footage to edit; watching it took three months. The film contains about 2,700 cuts of its entire running length, which is equivalent to 22.5 cuts per minute compared to The Road Warrior’s 1,200 cuts of its 90-minute running time equivalent to 13.33 cuts per minute. The frame rate was also manipulated. “Something like 50 or 60 percent of the film is not running at 24 frames a second, which is the traditional frame rate,” said Seale. “It’ll be running below 24 frames because George, if he couldn’t understand what was happening in the shot, he slowed it down until you could. Or if it was too well understood, he’d shorten it or he’d speed it up back towards 24. His manipulation of every shot in that movie is intense.”

– Wikipedia,  from Wired, Campaign Brief, Cinefex, Vanity Fair, The Sydney Morning Herald, Miami Herald, HitFix. 

Editing awards, Mad Max – Fury Road:

AACTA Award for Best Editing
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic
BAFTA Award for Best Editing
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Editing
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing
Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Editing
EDA Award for Best Editing
FCCA Award for Best Editing
Gold Derby Award for Best Film Editing
Online Film & Television Association Award for Best Film Editing
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing
San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film Editing
St. Louis Film Critics Association for Best Film Editing
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Editing

YouTube BTS for the soundtrack by JunkieXL

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