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George Miller
George Miller’s screen credits include director work on Mad Max: Fury Road, director work on Mad Max, and director work on Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Born March 3, 1945 Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia3 movies on MoviHero
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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). …
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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.
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- 2025Mad Max and the Genius of George MillerSelf
- 2025It’s a Mad Max WorldSelf (archive footage)
- 2024Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of FuriosaSelf
- 2024Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaWriter · Director · Producer
- 2023Hideo Kojima: Connecting WorldsSelf
- 2022Three Thousand Years of LongingWriter · Director · Producer
- 2017Going Mad: The Battle of Fury RoadSelf
- 2016Road War: The Making of 'The Road Warrior'Self
- 2015The Madness of MaxSelf
- 2012Forgotten Wars, Forgotten VictimsProducer
- 2011Happy Feet TwoDirector · Writer · Producer
- 2008Not Quite HollywoodSelf
- 2006Happy FeetDirector · Producer · Writer
- 1999Hollywood's Master of Myth: Joseph Campbell - The Force Behind Star WarsSelf
- 1998Babe: Pig in the CityDirector · Producer · Writer
- 199640,000 Years of DreamingDirector · Writer · Producer · Self - Host / Narrator
- 1996Video Fool for LoveProducer
- 1995BabeWriter · Producer
- 1992Lorenzo's OilDirector · Producer · Writer
- 1991FlirtingProducer
- 1989Dead CalmProducer · Director
- 1988Fragments of War: The Story of Damien ParerProducer
- 1988The Riddle of the StinsonProducer
- 1988The Clean MachineProducer
- 1987The Year My Voice BrokeProducer
- 1987The Witches of EastwickDirector
- 1987VietnamProducer
- 1985Spécial Mad MaxSelf
- 1985The Making of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'Producer · Self
- 1984The Cowra BreakoutProducer
- 1984Tausend AugenMann in der Fähre
- 1983Twilight Zone: The MovieProducer · Director
- 1981Mad Max 2Director · Writer
- 1980The Chain ReactionProducer · Director
- 1974The Devil in Evening DressDirector
- 1973Frieze: An Underground FilmDirector
- 1971Violence in the Cinema, Part 1Director
- 1971St. Vincent's Revue FilmDirector
- Mad Max: The WastelandWriter
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Hugh Keays-Byrne
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