2015–present: Career resurgence right|thumb|170px|Miller on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, 2012 In 2012, Miller began principal photography on Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth film in the Mad Max series, after several years of production delays. Fury Road starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron was released on 15 May 2015. The film became a box office success and was met with widespread critical acclaim with several critics calling it one of the greatest action films ever made.Multiple sources; see, for example: A.O. Scott of The New York Times labeled it a "New York Times Critic's Pick" writing, "Miller has always stayed true to his scrappy, pragmatic roots. At 70, he has a master craftsman’s intuitive sense of proportion and a visual artisan’s mistrust of extraneous verbiage" adding, "It’s all great fun, and quite rousing as well — a large-scale genre movie that is at once unpretentious and unafraid to bring home a message". It went on to receive 10 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, while Miller himself was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
2015–present: Career resurgence right|thumb|170px|Miller on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, 2012 In 2012, Miller began principal photography on Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth film in the Mad Max series, after several years of production delays. Fury Road starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron was released on 15 May 2015. The film became a box office success and was met with widespread critical acclaim with several critics calling it one of the greatest action films ever made.Multiple sources; see, for example: A.O. Scott of The New York Times labeled it a "New York Times Critic's Pick" writing, "Miller has always stayed true to his scrappy, pragmatic roots. At 70, he has a master craftsman’s intuitive sense of proportion and a visual artisan’s mistrust of extraneous verbiage" adding, "It’s all great fun, and quite rousing as well — a large-scale genre movie that is at once unpretentious and unafraid to bring home a message". It went on to receive 10 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, while Miller himself was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.