George Miller

Australian filmmaker (born 1945)

  • Fame61.0
  • Momentum6.1
  • Australia rank#240
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  • Fame61.0
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  • Australia rank#240
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Born 1945 · age 81Australia
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  • Wikipedia
    45 languages
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  • Rank in Australia
    #240
    Directors
  • Age
    81
    Born 1945
  • Known for
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    2015
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

He invented the modern car-chase spectacle with Mad Max, then won an Oscar for tap-dancing penguins—and after three decades away from the wasteland, came back with Fury Road, which collected six Academy Awards and reset the ceiling for action cinema.

Biography

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George Miller trained as a physician at the University of New South Wales and practised medicine before he and producing partner Byron Kennedy launched the Mad Max trilogy between 1979 and 1985, building a franchise that would define kinetic filmmaking. Kennedy died in 1983; Miller moved to Hollywood and pivoted hard—The Witches of Eastwick in 1987, the family drama Lorenzo's Oil in 1992 (his first Oscar nomination), then producing and co-writing Babe in 1995 before directing its sequel three years later. He won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature with Happy Feet in 2006, made a second…

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  • Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
  • Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
  • Officer of the Order of Australia
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61.0
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Score components
Momentum6.1
Historical25.5
Now attention29.9
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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#240
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