Biography
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). 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 Anim…
Directed
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) — Director
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Happy Feet (2006) — Director
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Mad Max (1979) — Director
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) — Director
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Mad Max 2 (1981) — Director
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) — Director
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Happy Feet Two (2011) — Director
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Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) — Director
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The Witches of Eastwick (1987) — Director
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Babe: Pig in the City (1998) — Director
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Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) — Director
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Lorenzo's Oil (1992) — Director
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40,000 Years of Dreaming (1996) — Director
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Bluey (1976) — Director
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The Dismissal (1983) — Director
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Violence in the Cinema, Part 1 (1971) — Director
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St. Vincent's Revue Film (1971) — Director
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Mad Max: The Wasteland — Director
- The Devil in Evening Dress (1974) — Director
- Bellamy (1981) — Director
Also appeared in
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Not Quite Hollywood (2008) — Self
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The Oscars (1953) — Self
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Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds (2023) — Self
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Going Mad: The Battle of Fury Road (2017) — Self
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The Madness of Max (2015) — Self
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40,000 Years of Dreaming (1996) — Self - Host / Narrator
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It’s a Mad Max World (2025) — Self (archive footage)
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Tausend Augen (1984) — Mann in der Fähre
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The Director's Chair (2014) — Self
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The Making of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome' (1985) — Self
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Road War: The Making of 'The Road Warrior' (2016) — Self
- HypaSpace (2002) — Self
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The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1973) — Self
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Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
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Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa (2024) — Self
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Mad Max and the Genius of George Miller (2025) — Self
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Hollywood's Master of Myth: Joseph Campbell - The Force Behind Star Wars (1999) — Self
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Spécial Mad Max (1985) — Self
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Creative Types with Virginia Trioli (2024) — Self