This story from Southern Cross News, Tasmania previews the 88th Academy Awards, held in Hollywood on 28 February 2016. It spotlights the record number of Australians nominated for awards, many of them from Mad Max: Fury Road, which was then Australia's most-nominated film to date.

Among the Mad Max: Fury Road nominees interviewed in this clip are: sound mixer Ben Osmo, sound editor David White, make-up artist Elka Wardega and production designer Colin Gibson.

At the 2015 Academy Awards, Mad Max: Fury Road was nominated for 10 awards and won 6. It won Oscars for Costume Design (Jenny Beavan), Film Editing (Margaret Sixel), Makeup and Hairstyling (Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin), Production Design (Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson), Sound Editing (Mark Mangini and David White) and Sound Mixing (Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo).

It received additional nominations for Best Picture (Doug Mitchell and George Miller), Directing (George Miller), Cinematography (John Seale) and Visual Effects (Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams).

Notes by Stephen Groenewegen