George Miller
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George Miller is an Australian director born in Chinchilla, Queensland, widely regarded as one of the most inventive action filmmakers in cinema history through his sustained Mad Max franchise. Mad Max and its sequels established a distinctively Australian, post-apocalyptic vision of vehicular carnage rendered with remarkable practical stunt work across the harsh outback landscape. Mad Max: Fury Road, an astonishing return to the franchise decades later built almost entirely around a single sustained chase, earned universal critical acclaim and multiple Academy Awards for its technical achievement, while Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga extended the mythology further. Happy Feet showed his surprising range into animated family filmmaking. Miller's singular command of large-scale practical action filmmaking sustained across five decades has made him one of the most respected action directors in cinema history.
George Miller
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George Miller is an Australian director born in Chinchilla, Queensland, widely regarded as one of the most inventive action filmmakers in cinema history through his sustained Mad Max franchise. Mad Max and its sequels established a distinctively Australian, post-apocalyptic vision of vehicular carnage rendered with remarkable practical stunt work across the harsh outback landscape. Mad Max: Fury Road, an astonishing return to the franchise decades later built almost entirely around a single sustained chase, earned universal critical acclaim and multiple Academy Awards for its technical achievement, while Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga extended the mythology further. Happy Feet showed his surprising range into animated family filmmaking. Miller's singular command of large-scale practical action filmmaking sustained across five decades has made him one of the most respected action directors in cinema history.
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Mad Max: Fury Road
2015
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2024
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Mad Max
1979
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Happy Feet
2006
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Mad Max 2
1981
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Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
1985
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Happy Feet Two
2011
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
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The Witches of Eastwick
1987
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Babe: Pig in the City
1998
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Lorenzo's Oil
1992
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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2024
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Three Thousand Years of Longing
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2022
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Mad Max: Fury Road
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2015
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Happy Feet Two
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2011
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Happy Feet
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2006
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Babe: Pig in the City
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1998
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Babe
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1995
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Lorenzo's Oil
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1992
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The Witches of Eastwick
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1987
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Frequently Asked Questions
How old is George Miller and where are they from?
George Miller is 81 years old, born on March 3, 1945 in Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia.
What are the most famous roles of George Miller?
George Miller is best known for directing Mad Max: Fury Road, Happy Feet, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
How many movies has George Miller directed?
Over a 55-year career (since 1971), George Miller has directed or written 15 films and worked on 3 TV shows.
What was George Miller's first movie?
The career of George Miller began with Mad Max: The Wasteland ().
What is George Miller's most recent movie or series?
George Miller's most recent release is Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which premiered on May 22, 2024.
What TV shows has George Miller created or directed?
On television, George Miller has appeared in Bodyline, Bluey, The Dismissal, Bellamy.
George Miller
1945-03-03 · Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia
George Miller AO (born 3 March 1945) is an Australian filmmaker. Over the course of four decades he has received critical and popular success creating the Mad Max franchise, starting in 1979, with two of the films having been hailed as two of the greatest action films of all time. He has also earned numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Miller rose to prominence directing the dystopian action-adventure films Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2 (1981), and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). He then directed the dark fantasy comedy The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and the biographical medical drama Lorenzo's Oil (1992), which he also co-wrote, earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He produced and co-wrote the family film Babe (1995), earning an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, and later directed the sequel Babe: Pig in the City (1998).
In 1995, he also produced the confronting cinema verité documentary Video Fool for Love, which dealt with film editor Robert Gibson's personal life as captured in hundreds of hours of camcorder footage.
He won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Happy Feet (2006) and directed its sequel, Happy Feet Two (2011). He returned to Mad Max, directing the critically acclaimed sequel Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), which went on to win six Academy Awards, with Miller receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. He then directed the prequel film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).
Trained in medicine at the University of New South Wales, Miller worked as a physician for several years before entering the film industry full-time. He is a co-founder of the production houses Kennedy Miller Mitchell, formerly known as Kennedy Miller, and Dr. D Studios. Since the death of his producing partner Byron Kennedy, his younger brother Bill Miller and Doug Mitchell have produced his later films.George Miller (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.