George Miller (filmmaker)

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George Miller
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Miller in 2017
Born (1945-03-03) 3 March 1945 (age 79)
Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia
Education Sydney Boys High School, Ipswich Grammar School
Alma mater University of New South Wales
Occupations
  • Director
  • producer
  • writer
Spouses
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Relatives Bill Miller (brother)
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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. [1] He has also earned numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

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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-friendly film Babe (1995) earning a Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination and later directed the sequel Babe: Pig in the City (1998).

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 full-time. He is a co-founder 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.

Early life and education

Miller was born on 3 March 1945 [2] in Chinchilla, Queensland, to Greek immigrant parents: Jim Miller and mother Angela. Jim (aka Dimitrios) was born on the Greek island of Kythira (at Mitata), Jim's father anglicised his surname from Miliotis to Miller when he emigrated to Australia in 1920; Angela's family were Greek refugees from Anatolia, displaced by the 1923 population exchange. [3]

Miller attended Ipswich Grammar School and later Sydney Boys High School, [3] then studied medicine at the University of New South Wales with his twin brother John. While in his final year at medical school (1971), George and his younger brother Chris made St. Vincent's Revue Film, a one-minute short film that won them first prize in a student competition. [4]

In 1971, George attended a film workshop at Melbourne University where he met fellow student Byron Kennedy, with whom he formed a lasting friendship and production partnership, until Kennedy's death. In 1972, Miller completed his residency at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, spending his time off crewing on short experimental films. That same year, Miller and Kennedy founded Kennedy Miller Productions. [5] The pair subsequently collaborated on numerous works. After Kennedy died in 1983, Miller kept his name in the company. It was later renamed Kennedy Miller Mitchell in 2009 as a way to recognise producer Doug Mitchell's role in the company. [6]

Career

1971–1985: Early work and Mad Max trilogy

Miller's first work, the short film Violence in Cinema: Part 1 (1971), polarised critics, audiences and distributors so much that it was placed in the documentary category at the 1972 Sydney Film Festival due to its matter-of-fact depiction of cinematic violence. [7] In 1979, Miller made his feature-length directorial debut with Mad Max . Based on a script written by Miller and James McCausland in 1975, the film was independently financed by Kennedy Miller Productions and went on to become an international success. [5] As a result, the film spawned the Mad Max series with two further sequels starring Mel Gibson: Mad Max 2 also released as The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).

During the time between the second and third Mad Max films, Miller directed a remake of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" as a segment for the anthology film Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). [8] He also co-produced and co-directed many acclaimed miniseries for Australian television including The Dismissal (1983) and The Cowra Breakout (1984).

1987–1995: Established director

In 1987, Miller directed The Witches of Eastwick , starring Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer. The film proved to be a troubling experience for Miller. "I quit the film twice and Jack [Nicholson] held me in there," said Miller. "He said, 'Just sit down, lose your emotion, and have a look at the work. If you think the work is good, stick with the film.' And he was a great man. I learnt more from him than anybody else I think I'd worked for – he was extraordinary." [9] Nicholson also coached Miller to exaggerate his needs during the production, asking for 300 extras when he only needed 150, knowing that his producers would give him less than he requested. [10] The award-winning production designer Polly Platt also collaborated closely with Miller on The Witches of Eastwick. Cher later said that prior to working on the film, Miller called her at home, the day after her 40th birthday, to inform her that he and Nicholson didn't want her in the film. She was deemed "too old and not sexy". [11]

Following The Witches of Eastwick, Miller focused primarily on producing Australian projects. [12] His role as producer of Flirting , Dead Calm and the TV miniseries Bangkok Hilton and Vietnam , all starring Nicole Kidman, was instrumental in the development of her career. Miller returned to directing with the release of the biographical medical drama Lorenzo's Oil (1992), which he co-wrote with Nick Enright. [13] The film starred Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon. The film received critical acclaim [14] with Variety describing the film as a "true-life story brought to the screen intelligently and with passionate motivation by George Miller". [15] For his work on the film Miller was nominated for the Academy Award and Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. [16] [17] The following year Miller was hired to direct the science fiction drama film Contact based on the story by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. [18] After working on the film for over a year, Warner Bros. and Miller mutually agreed to part ways and Robert Zemeckis was eventually brought on to direct. [19]

1995–2011: Babe and Happy Feet films

Miller at the Australian premiere of Happy Feet in 2006 George Miller.jpg
Miller at the Australian premiere of Happy Feet in 2006

In 1995 Miller produced and co-wrote the comedy-drama Babe directed by Chris Noonan. The film was a critical and financial success. [20] [21] The film earned 7 Academy Award nominations including for Miller for Best Adapted Screenplay. [22] Miller went on to write and direct its sequel Babe: Pig in the City (1998). [23] Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars praising Miller's work on the sequel writing, "It outdoes itself with the sets and special effects that make up "the city." And it is still literate, humane and wicked. George Miller, who produced, directed and co-wrote the film, has improved and extended the ideas in Babe: Pig in the City, instead of being content to copy them." [24] Critic Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune named it the Best film of 1998. [25]

Miller was also the creator of the animated jukebox musical film Happy Feet (2006) about the life of penguins in Antarctica. [26] The Warner Bros.-produced film was released in November 2006. As well as being a runaway box office success earning $363 million worldwide, and also brought Miller his fourth Academy Award nomination, and his first win in the category of Best Animated Feature. [27] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times praised the film writing, "Miller...shows a remarkable persistence of vision. Even in a story about singing-and-dancing fat and feather, Mr. Miller can’t help but go dark and deep" adding, "[He] brings an unusual depth of feeling to his work as well as a distinct moral worldview". [28]

In 2007, Miller signed on to direct a Justice League film titled Justice League: Mortal . [29] While production was initially held up due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, [30] further production delays and the success of The Dark Knight led to Warner Bros. deciding to put the film on hold and pursue different options. [31] Dr. D Studios was a Sydney-based digital animation studio founded in mid-2007 as a partnership between Kennedy Miller Mitchell and Omnilab Media. [32] Following the financially unsuccessful release of Happy Feet Two (2011) and the long delay of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), the studio closed down in 2013. [32] [33] In 2011, the Happy Feet sequel Happy Feet Two was released. [34]

2015–present: Career resurgence

Miller on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, 2012 George Miller while filming Fury Road.jpg
Miller on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road , 2012

In 2012, Miller began principal photography on Mad Max: Fury Road , the fourth film in the Mad Max series, after several years of production delays. [35] Fury Road starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron was released on 15 May 2015. [36] The film was met with widespread critical acclaim with several critics calling it one of the greatest action films ever made. [37] A.O. Scott of The New York Times labeled it a "New York Times Critic's Pick" writing, "Miller has always stayed true to his scrappy, pragmatic roots. At 70, he has a master craftsman’s intuitive sense of proportion and a visual artisan’s mistrust of extraneous verbiage" adding, "It’s all great fun, and quite rousing as well — a large-scale genre movie that is at once unpretentious and unafraid to bring home a message". [38] It went on to receive 10 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, while Miller himself was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. [39]

In October 2018 it was announced that Miller would direct Three Thousand Years of Longing , which began filming in November 2020. [40] The film starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2022. [41] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian described the film as "a heartfelt Aladdin-esque adventure for grownups" adding, "Miller shows he is now doing one-for-him-and-one-that’s-even-more-for-him. It’s an Arabian Nights-type fantasia which he has clearly been gagging to make for years". [42] Justin Chang of NPR wrote that "Miller unveils an outlandish premise with a sly wit that's initially hard to resist" but added the film "ends on a muted, uncertain note". [43] The film was a box office bomb grossing $20 million worldwide off a budget of $60 million. [44] [45]

In April 2017, Miller said that he and co-writer Nico Lathouris have finished two additional post-Fury Road scripts for the Mad Max series. The Fury Road lead, Tom Hardy, is committed to the next sequel. [46] In 2015, and again in early 2017, Miller said "the fifth film in the franchise will be titled Mad Max: The Wasteland." [46] [47] In 2020, it was reported that Miller would next direct the Mad Max spinoff Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth. [48] The film premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. [49] [50] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times gave the film a "NYT Critic's Pick" declaring, "Miller is such a wildly inventive filmmaker that it’s been easy to forget that he keeps making movies about the end of life as we know it. It’s a blast watching his characters fight over oil, water and women, yet while I’ve long thought of him as a great filmmaker it’s only with Furiosa that I now understand he’s also one kick-ass prophet of doom." [51]

Personal life

Miller was married to actress Sandy Gore from 1985 to 1992; they have a daughter. He has been married to film editor Margaret Sixel since 1995. They have two sons. [52] [ needs update ] Sixel has worked in some capacity on many of Miller's directorial efforts. [53]

Miller is the patron of the Australian Film Institute and the Brisbane International Film Festival, and a co-patron of the Sydney Film Festival.[ citation needed ]

Miller has said many times that the 1940 version of Pinocchio is one of his favourite films. [54] [55] [56]

Miller is a feminist, having told Vanity Fair in May 2015, "I've gone from being very male dominant to being surrounded by magnificent women. I can't help but be a feminist." [57]

Filmography

Feature films

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
1979 Mad Max YesYesNo
1981 Mad Max 2 YesYesNoAlso additional editor
1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie YesNoNoSegment: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
1985 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome YesYesYesCo-directed with George Ogilvie
1987 The Witches of Eastwick YesNoNo
1992 Lorenzo's Oil YesYesYes
1995 Babe NoYesYes
1997 40,000 Years of Dreaming YesYesNoDocumentary; also presenter
1998 Babe: Pig in the City YesYesYes
2006 Happy Feet YesYesYes
2011 Happy Feet Two YesYesYes
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road YesYesYes
2022 Three Thousand Years of Longing YesYesYes
2024 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga YesYesYes

Producer

YearTitleNotes
1987 The Year My Voice Broke
1989 Dead Calm Also second unit director
1991 Flirting
1996 Video Fool for Love Documentary

Other credits

YearTitleRole
1978 In Search of Anna First assistant director
1980 The Chain Reaction Second unit director (uncredited) and associate producer

Short films

YearTitleDirectorWriterNotes
1971"St. Vincent's Revue Film"YesYes
"Violence in the Cinema, Part 1"YesYes
1974"The Devil in Evening Dress"YesYes

Television

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
1983 The Dismissal YesYesYesTV miniseries
1984 The Last Bastion YesNoNo
Bodyline NoStoryYes
1987The Far CountryYesNoNo

Producer

YearTitleNotes
1985 The Cowra Breakout TV miniseries
1987 Vietnam
1988 The Dirtwater Dynasty
The Clean Machine TV film
The Riddle of the Stinson
Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer
Sportz Crazy Documentary miniseries
1989 Bangkok Hilton TV miniseries

Music video

YearTitleArtist
1985"We Don't Need Another Hero" Tina Turner

Video games

YearTitleRole
2025 Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Likeness

Awards and recognition

YearTitleAcademy AwardsBAFTA AwardsGolden Globe Awards
NominationsWinsNominationsWinsNominationsWins
1985 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1
1987 The Witches of Eastwick 211
1992 Lorenzo's Oil 21
1998 Babe: Pig in the City 11
2006 Happy Feet 112121
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road 106742
Total16711661

See also

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