Quentin Tarantino reveals that Mad Max: Fury Road is his favourite film of 2015

'Mad Max? Without Mel Gibson? Forget that'

Quentin Tarantino at Comic Con (Reuters)

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most opinionated directors of the moment, his reviews ranging from heaping on huge amounts of praise to complete dismissal of an entire art movement movement.

Occasionally, the 52-year-old will reveal his favourite films of the year, in 2011 naming Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris his favourite of the year, and then Afternoon Delight in 2013.

At the premiere of The Hateful Eight, in France, Tarantino revealed his pick of 2015: George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road.

While he clarified that making his latest film had taken the majority of his time up, therefore not allowing him to watch that many films, he did reveal that he was sent a 35mm version of Max which he watched three times in one weekend. Watch below.

“I resisted seeing it, for a while, because I was like, ‘Mad Max? Without Mel Gibson? Forget that,’” he added. “In a world where Mel Gibson exists, how can you cast Tom Hardy? Then I saw the movie. ‘Okay, it’s terrific.’ And he’s pretty good in it, I have to admit.”

Back in 2005, Tarantino revealed to The Independent his top 10 films of all time. His top ten list went as follows:

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Leone)

2. Rio Bravo (1959, Hawks)

3. Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese)

4. His Girl Friday (1940, Hawks)

5. Rolling Thunder (1977, Flynn)

6. They All Laughed (1981, Bogdanovich)

7. The Great Escape (1963, J. Sturges)

8. Carrie (1976, De Palma)

9. Coffy (1973, Hill)

10. Five Fingers of Death (1973, Chang)

His latest film, The Hateful Eight, has been met by widespread acclaim but recently leaked online after an Oscar screener DVD sent to a voter went missing.

Tarantino thinks the Western is his finest work yet.