George Miller (born March 3, 1945) is an Australian filmmaker and former physician. He is a co-founder of the production houses Kennedy Miller Mitchell, formerly known as Kennedy Miller, and Dr. D Studios. His younger brother Bill Miller and Doug Mitchell have been producers on almost all the films in Miller’s later career, since the death of his original producing partner Byron Kennedy.
He made his feature debut with the low budget action film Mad Max (1979), with Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, and Roger Ward. Miller would also direct the sequels Mar Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), with Gibson, Bruce Spence, Mike Preston, and Vernon Wells; Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), with Gibson, Tina Turner, Spence, Frank Thring, and Angelo Rossitto; Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), with Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee, and Courtney Eaton; and the upcoming prequel spinoff Furiosa (2024), with Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Nathan Jones, Angus Sampson, and Quaden Bayles. For Fury Road he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture.
Other notable films include directing a segment of the anthology film Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), with John Lithgow; The Witches of Eastwick (1987), with Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright, and Richard Jenkins; Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) with Nick Nolte, Sarandon, and Peter Ustinov – for he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; and Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022), with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.
Miller produced and co-wrote the family film Babe (1995), with James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, and the voices of Christine Cavanaugh, Danny Mann, Miriam Margolyse, Hugo Weaving, Miriam Flynn, Russi Taylor, and Roscoe Lee Brown; for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. He also directed the sequel Babe: Pig in the City (1998). He won Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Happy Feet (2006), with the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Weaving, and E.G. Daily. He followed up with Happy Feet Two (2011), with Ava Acres, Wood, Williams, P!nk, Meibh Campbell, Lil’ P-Nut, Common, Szubanski, Weaving, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sofia Vergara, Richard Carter, and Hank Azaria.
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- Mad Max (1979)
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1982) – directed with Joe Dante, John Landis, & Steven Spielberg – anthology
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) – co-directed with George Ogilvie
- The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
- Lorenzo’s Oil (1992)
- Babe (1995)* – directed by Chris Noonan – co-writer, co-producer
- Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
- Happy Feet (2006)
- Happy Feet Two (2011)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)*
- Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
- Furiosa (2024)
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