George Miller

Born: 1945-03-03

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Miller (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Not Quite Hollywood

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Released: 2008-08-28

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art...

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Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds

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Released: 2023-06-17

A journey into the creative mind of the most iconic video game designer in the world. Featuring...

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Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa

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Released: 2024-08-13

A behind the scenes look at the making of Furiosa.

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The Madness of Max

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Released: 2015-08-01

The Madness of Max is a feature-length documentary on the making of arguably the most...

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Road War: The Making of 'The Road Warrior'

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Released: 2016-12-06

Retrospective on the making of "Mad Max 2".

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Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road

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Released: 2017-08-01

For 20 years director George Miller fought to unleash the ultimate Mad Max movie - Mad Max: Fury...

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Tausend Augen

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Released: 1984-05-13

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Seven Friends: George Miller’s Justice League

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Documentary chronicling director George Miller's unmade 2008 superhero movie Justice League Mortal.

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40,000 Years of Dreaming

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Released: 1997-11-10

Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests...

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The Making of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'

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Released: 1985-06-25

Follows the cast and crew of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome filming in the heat and dust of central...

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Hollywood's Master of Myth: Joseph Campbell - The Force Behind Star Wars

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Released: 1999-07-18

Documentary charting the contribution to Hollywood movies made by writer Joseph Campbell, whose...

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Spécial cinéma

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First aired: 1974-09-25

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The American Film Institute Salute to ...

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First aired: 1973-04-02

In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a...

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The Director's Chair

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First aired: 2014-05-10

Robert Rodriguez sits down with the industry's most iconic directors and engages in a revealing...

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