George Miller (filmmaker)
George Miller AO (born 3 March 1945) is an Australian filmmaker, best known for his Mad Max franchise, whose second installment, Mad Max 2, and fourth, Fury Road, have been hailed two of the greatest action films of all time, Fury Road winning six Academy Awards. Miller is very diverse in genre and style as he also directed the biographical medical drama Lorenzo's Oil, the dark fantasy The Witches of Eastwick, and the Academy Award-winning animated film Happy Feet, produced the family-friendly fantasy adventure Babe and directed the sequel Babe: Pig in the City.
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| Born | 3 March 1945 Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia |
| Education | Sydney Boys High School, Ipswich Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of New South Wales |
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| Spouses | Sandy Gore
(m. 1985; div. 1992)Margaret Sixel (m. 1995) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Bill Miller (brother) |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Happy Feet (2006) |
Miller 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.
In 2006, Miller won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Happy Feet (2006). He has been nominated for five other Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay in 1992 for Lorenzo's Oil, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay in 1995 for Babe, and Best Picture and Best Director for Fury Road in 2015.