Mad Max voted best movie of the year

International critics have voted Mad Max: Fury Road as their best film of the year. The action movie shot in Namibia by Australian director George Miller will be awarded the Grand Prix of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain on 18 September.

You could have knocked me over with a feather! Its lovely to have this great cohort of critics acknowledge our collective labours in this way, Miller said in the statement.

The vote saw 493 of the worlds top critics, who typically reward less mainstream arthouse films; choose from among movies premiered after 1 July, 2014.

Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron - the fourth film in the apocalyptic adventure franchise shot in the Australian outback will receive a special screening at the festival, the highest-profile movie event in the Spanish-speaking world, which runs until 26 September.

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Last years winner of the award was Richard Linklater for Boyhood.

The festival, held each year in San Sebastian, a picturesque seaside resort on Spains northern Atlantic coast, was originally intended to honour Spanish language films but has established itself as one of the most important movie festivals in the world.

It hosted the world premiere of Alfred Hitchcocks spy thriller North by Northwest in 1959 and Woody Allens Melinda and Melinda in 2004.

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