“Mad Max: Fury Road” Wins FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2015

“Mad Max: Fury Road”, the critical and commercial success by Australian filmmaker George Miller, was the winner of this year’s FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2015 to the best film of the past year, open to any feature-length work premièred since July, 2014. 493 colleagues from all over the world participated in one or both phases of the poll. 
The new voting modality, inaugurated last year according to discussions at the General Assembly, divides the process into two phases. In the first, all members were invited to freely nominate up to three feature-length films of any origin or nature, as long as they had been premiered no earlier than July 1st, 2014. 266 colleagues from all over the world proposed the outstanding total of 211 different titles (though it must be mentioned that many of them were too old to be eligible.)
The four films with the most votes then went on to the second phase of the poll, arriving in the following order:

1.- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
2.- Son of Saul (Saul fia, László Nemes)
3.- The Assassin (Nie yin niang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
4.-Taxi (Jafar Panahi?)

The next ten films with the highest scores in the first round of the poll were, in order:

Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron, Roy Andersson)
Horse Money (Cavalho Dineiro, Pedro Costa)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronaldo del Carmen)
Carol (Todd Haynes)
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino)
Arabian Nights* (As mil e uma noites, Miguel Gomes)
Mia madre (Nanni Moretti)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)

* All episodes were counted together, as most members nominated the whose series.

Thank you very much to all 493 members of FIPRESCI who voted in one or both of the phases of the poll.

Pamela Biénzobas

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