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George Miller
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George Miller is an Australian film director, producer, screenwriter, and physician. Born on March 3, 1945, in Chinchilla, Queensland, he began his work period in 1970. He was educated at the University of New South Wales and is married to Margaret Sixel, with whom he has three children. His notable works include *Mad Max* and *Happy Feet*, which span the dieselpunk and drama fiction genres.
Miller has received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He has also been nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1955
- Works
- 21
Top works
- A treatise of faith, divided into two parts
- A cordiall for Christians in the time of affliction, or, a sermon preached at Kethering Lecture
- Critica sacra
- Gods three arrowes
- Moses unuailed, or, Those figures which served vnto the patterne and shaddow of heauenly things, pointing out the Messiah Christ Iesus, briefly explained
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Film & TV
Directing · Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia
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…
Known for
- Mad Max and the Genius of George Miller — Self2025
- It’s a Mad Max World — Self (archive footage)2025
- Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa — Self2024
- Creative Types with Virginia Trioli — Self2024
- Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds — Self2023
- Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road — Self2017
- Road War: The Making of 'The Road Warrior' — Self2016
- The Madness of Max — Self2015
- The Director's Chair — Self2014
- Not Quite Hollywood — Self2008
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,960
- Total plays
- 7,880
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,783x
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,936x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,604x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,859x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,619x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1945-03-03 ) 3 March 1945 (age 81) , Chinchilla, Queensland , Australia
- Education
- Sydney Boys High School , Ipswich Grammar School
- Alma mater
- University of New South Wales
- Occupations
- Director producer writer former medical doctor
- Years active
- 1971–present
- Spouses
- Sandy Gore ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1985 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1992 ) Margaret Sixel ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1995 )
- Relatives
- Bill Miller (brother)
- Awards
- Full list
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Encyclopedic overview
George Miller (born 3 March 1945) is an Australian filmmaker. In a career spanning four decades, he has received critical and popular success, and is widely known for creating and directing every film in the Mad Max franchise starting in 1979, including two entries which are considered two of the greatest action films of all time according to Metacritic. Miller has earned numerous accolades, including an Academy Award from six nominations in five different categories.
Miller's directing career started in Australia with the first three Mad Max films between 1979 and 1985 with his friend and producing partner Byron Kennedy, after which he transitioned to Hollywood with The Witches of Eastwick (1987). His family drama Lorenzo's Oil (1992) earned him his first Academy Award nomination after which he produced and co-wrote Babe (1995) and directed the sequel Babe: Pig in the City (1998). He would venture into animation with Happy Feet (2006), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and the sequel Happy Feet Two (2011), before returning to Mad Max with the acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), which went on to win six Academy Awards, and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).
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