George Miller
Born: 1945-03-03 in Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Mad Max and the Genius of George Miller as Self
- It’s a Mad Max World as Self (archive) - filmmaker
2024
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ... (Writer)
- Creative Types with Virginia Trioli as Self
- Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa as Self
2023
- Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds as Self
2022
- Three Thousand Years of Longing ... (Writer)
2017
- Baby Driver ... (Thanks)
- Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road as Self
2016
2015
- Mad Max: Fury Road ... (Director)
- The Madness of Max as Self
2014
- The Director's Chair as Self
2012
- Forgotten Wars, Forgotten Victims ... (Executive Producer)
2011
- Happy Feet Two ... (Director)
2008
- The Square ... (Thanks)
- Not Quite Hollywood as Self
2006
- Happy Feet ... (Director)
2002
- HypaSpace as Self
1999
- Voyage au centre de la terre ... (Conductor)
- Hollywood's Master of Myth: Joseph Campbell - The Force Behind Star Wars as Self
1998
- Babe: Pig in the City ... (Screenplay)
1996
- 40,000 Years of Dreaming as Self - Host / Narrator
- Video Fool for Love ... (Producer)
1995
- Babe ... (Screenplay)
1992
- Lorenzo's Oil ... (Director)
1991
- Flirting ... (Producer)
1989
- Dead Calm ... (Second Unit Director)
- Bangkok Hilton ... (Producer)
1988
- The Riddle of the Stinson ... (Producer)
- The Clean Machine ... (Producer)
- Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer ... (Producer)
1987
- The Witches of Eastwick ... (Director)
- The Year My Voice Broke ... (Producer)
- Vietnam ... (Producer)
- Vietnam ... (Producer)
1985
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ... (Screenplay)
- Spécial Mad Max as Self
- The Making of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome' as Self
1984
- Tausend Augen as Mann in der Fähre
- Bodyline ... (Writer)
- The Cowra Breakout ... (Producer)
1983
- Twilight Zone: The Movie ... (Producer)
- The Dismissal ... (Executive Producer)
1980
- The Chain Reaction ... (Associate Producer)
1979
- Mad Max ... (Story)
1976
- Bluey ... (Director)
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
1973
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- Frieze: An Underground Film ... (Co-Director)
1971
- Violence in the Cinema, Part 1 ... (Director)
- St. Vincent's Revue Film ... (Director)