Mad Max heroes arrive home with record Oscars haul

IT was a “fury of Oscars” as the winners of Mad Max: Fury Road - the Aussie action flick that dominated this year’s Academy Awards - touched down on Qantas flight Oscar One in Sydney this morning.

Pic of movie director George Miller arriving back in Sydney after his movie Mad Max Fury road picked up six Oscars.Mad Max Oscar winners are on this flight back to Sydney. Potential for George Miller and his wife Margaret Sixel (who won the Oscar for editing) and the two who won Oscars for hair and makeup (Lesley Vanderwalt and Damian Martin) to be present.

IT was a “fury of Oscars” as the winners of Mad Max: Fury Road touched down in Sydney this morning.

Walking out of the arrival gate to a round of applause and mobbed by fans, the group stopped– gold statues in hand, to share their pride at the impressive six Oscars win, the highest number ever won by an Australian film.

George Miller with Oscar winners wife Margaret Sixel, Lesley Vanderwalt and Damian Martin

Lesley Vanderwalt with her prized Oscar.

Winners are grinners...Damian Martin in Sydney this morning.

Prized cargo.... Qantas boarding pass for Oscar

Looking energised despite the long flight from LA, the film’s director George Miller was joined by his wife Margaret Sixel, who won best film editing and Lesley Vanderwalt and Damian Martin who won best makeup and hairstyling and John Seale.

Miller said the wins proved Australian films were as good as from Hollywood and beyond.

“I think the main thing is it shows that we can do really great work. It’s a big deal, it’s fantastic,” he said.

But Ms Sixel said while the wins were an extraordinary feeling, she wished Miller had won best director.

“I’m very proud of him. He is sort of the master mind of all this. None of us others would have won an Oscar without him. And he didn’t win an Oscar, so it is kind of bittersweet for the rest of us.”

MAD MAX’S WINNING SIX

Film Editing: Margaret Sixel

Costume Design: Jenny Beavan

Makeup: Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin

Sound Editing: Mark Mangini and David White

Sound Mixing: Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo

Production design: Production design by Colin Gibson; set decoration by Lisa Thompson

Ms Sixel joked the gongs had allowed the group to get into any after party just by the flash of the statue, but the group were now partied out.

Instead they said they would opt for low key celebrations, “good Sydney coffee” for Ms Vanderwalt, a swim at Bondi Beach for Miller and Ms Sixel and for Mr Martin, spending the day with his family.