George Miller

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 actionadventure 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 Lorenzos Oil 1992 which he also cowrote earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay He produced and cowrote 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 Gibsons 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 fulltime He is a cofounder 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia