George Miller Director

Director, Producer
Born: March 3, 1945 in Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia

Australia-born George Miller graduated from medical school in Sydney where during his study years he began to make short films with his associate Byron Kennedy. They went on to set up the Kennedy Miller Company. Their short film Violence in the Cinema, garnered two prizes from the Australian Film Institute, spurring them on to make a feature film, Mad Max (1979), which became a global blockbuster. In 1983, after John Landis, Steven Spielberg and Joe Dante, he directed The Fourth Dimension, the last episode of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

In 1987, George Miller set off for Hollywood to direct The Witches of Eastwick and went on to produce television series, TV films and three feature films: Calme blanc directed by Philip Noyce as well as Flirting and The Year My Voice Broke by John Duigan. He returned behind the camera for Lorenzo – which earned him an Oscar nomination for the Best Original Screenplay. He then bought the rights for Babe (1995) which he adapted and produced. The film picked up seven Oscar nominations including Best Film and Best Adaptation. He followed-up with the unorthodox sequel Babe – Pig in the City and then Happy Feet for which he picked up the Oscar for Best Animated film in 2007. Happy Feet 2 followed in 2011.

Filmography George Miller

Mad Max Fury Road (Director, Producer) – 2015
Stars : Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult
SynopsisM : ad Max: Fury Road transports us to a post-apocalyptic world in which gangs clash over scare petrol and water resources. Max Rockatansky, played by Tom Hardy, comes face to face with the Empress Furiosa (Charlize Theron), who is fleeing a gang in hot pursuit…


Happy Feet 2 (Director, Producer) – 2011
Stars : Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Pink
The sequel to the Academy Award winning animated smash hit, “Happy Feet Two” returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica in superb 3D. Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son Erik is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven – a penguin who can fly!! Mumble has


Happy Feet (Director, Producer) – 2006
Stars : Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman
In the world of the emperor penguin, a simple song can mean the difference between a lifetime of happiness and an eternity of loneliness. When a penguin named Mumble is born without the ability to sing the romantic song that will attract his soul mate, he’ll have to resort to some fancy footwork by


 Babe: Pig in the City (Director, Producer) – 1998
Stars : Magda Szubanski, Elizabeth Daily, Mickey Rooney
“Even more imaginative than the original” (The Washington Post), this sequel takes the three musketeers, Babe, Ferdy and Mrs. Hoggett, on a crusade into the midst of a large city where despite incredible obstacles, they’re able to turn enemies into friends, raise enough money to save the farm and combine the two worlds into one.


Lorenzo’s Oil (Director, Producer) – 1992
Stars : Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov
Until about the age of 7, Lorenzo Odone was a normal child. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare incurable degenerative brain disorder.


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