---
name: "George Miller"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/george-miller"
fi1m_id: "george-miller"
imdb_id: "nm0004306"
tmdb_id: 20629
wikidata_id: "Q446960"
roles: ["Director","Writer","Producer"]
born: "3 March 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 10
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "director"
average_over: 8
updated: "2026-10-04T20:07:46.437596+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# George Miller

## Identity

George Miller

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/george-miller
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** george-miller
- **IMDb ID:** nm0004306
- **TMDB ID:** 20629
- **Wikidata ID:** Q446960
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Miller_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q446960, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004306/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20629

Director and writer. Born 3 March 1945 in Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 3 March 1945, Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia
- **Active:** 1979–present
- **Also known as:** جورج ميلر, Джордж Миллер, ジョージ・ミラー, 乔治·米勒, 조지 밀러, جورج میلر
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 10: 8 directing, 1 writing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Doug Mitchell](https://film.one/person/doug-mitchell.md), [Mel Gibson](https://film.one/person/mel-gibson.md), [Terry Hayes](https://film.one/person/terry-hayes.md), [Bill Miller](https://film.one/person/bill-miller.md), [Bruce Spence](https://film.one/person/bruce-spence.md), [Byron Kennedy](https://film.one/person/byron-kennedy.md), [George Shevtsov](https://film.one/person/george-shevtsov.md), [Hugh Keays-Byrne](https://film.one/person/hugh-keays-byrne.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 5 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as director, over 8 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 78 (1), 1980s 72 (5), 1990s 88 (1), 2000s 71 (1), 2010s 88 (1), 2020s 72 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 78 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 6 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Science Fiction 6, Action 5, Adventure 3, Comedy 2, Fantasy 2, Horror 2
- **Screen time:** 15 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,192m across 8 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Miller_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q446960, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004306/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20629

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Mad Max*](https://film.one/film/mad-max.md) (78), [*The Witches of Eastwick*](https://film.one/film/the-witches-of-eastwick.md) (73)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Dead Calm*](https://film.one/film/dead-calm.md) (73), [*Twilight Zone: The Movie*](https://film.one/film/twilight-zone-the-movie.md) (63)
- **Disney+:** [*Babe*](https://film.one/film/babe.md) (88)
- **Apple TV:** [*Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga*](https://film.one/film/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on George Miller

> George Miller writes films whose story is told by the chase, and for more than forty years he has been among the clearest action writers in cinema. The scripts falter when people stop driving and start talking, which they do too often in *Furiosa*.

A car leaves the road and George Miller holds the shot long enough for us to work out how heavy it is before it lands. He has been doing this since *Mad Max* in 1979, when David Eggby kept the camera low to the tarmac and the collisions felt capable of doing lasting damage. Miller has called *Mad Max* "a montage film", and the phrase fits nearly everything he has written in the desert. The story is the order of the movements. The people are there to be in the way of them.

He founded Kennedy Miller with the producer Byron Kennedy and made *Mad Max* (1979), *Mad Max 2* (1981), which was the international breakthrough, and *Beyond Thunderdome* (1985), the softer one. Then Hollywood: *The Witches of Eastwick* (1987) and *Lorenzo's Oil* (1992). He co-wrote *Babe* (1995) and directed its sequel in 1998, made *Happy Feet* (2006) and its sequel (2011), and went back to the desert for *Mad Max: Fury Road* (2015) and *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga* (2024).

The writing is in the staging. *Mad Max 2*, written with Brian Hannant and Terry Hayes, has a thin story, fuel and a fortress and a stranger arriving at a siege, and Miller knows exactly how much that story can carry. *Fury Road*, written with Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris, is one long pursuit with almost no backstory and it stays intelligible at its most frantic, which is rarer than it should be. We flinched at the collisions in *Fury Road*, and not because they were loud. The stunts are practical, the vehicles have weight, and Miller has shown us what the next move will cost before anybody makes it.

The weakness is talk. In *Mad Max*, his lines with James McCausland keep telling us how dangerous a man is after the action has already said so. *Mad Max 2* keeps motives basic, and Mel Gibson's reserve gives the film a centre without much company. *Fury Road* leaves the Wives underwritten as individuals. And in *Furiosa*, again with Lathouris, Chris Hemsworth's Dementus explains himself at length, and Miller enjoys the performance more than the film can afford; the speeches get longer as it goes on. The odd one out is *Babe*, a screenplay made almost entirely of conversation, about a piglet whose manners upset the farmyard's ideas of what he is for, and it is funny and tender throughout. Perhaps it helped that Chris Noonan was directing and somebody else was deciding where the camera went.

Start with *Mad Max 2* for the writer at his plainest, then *Fury Road* on the largest screen you can find. *Furiosa* is worth its middle hour. Whatever Miller writes next, we hope the villain is given fewer lines.

## Biography

George Miller is an Australian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. Born on 3 March 1945 in Chinchilla, Queensland, he began his career in medicine before turning to film.

He created and directed the Mad Max franchise, beginning with *Mad Max* (1979), followed by *Mad Max 2* (1981), *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* (1985), *Mad Max: Fury Road* (2015) and *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga* (2024). Other notable directorial credits include *The Witches of Eastwick* (1987), *Lorenzo's Oil* (1992), *Babe: Pig in the City* (1998), *Happy Feet* (2006) and *Three Thousand Years of Longing* (2022). He also produced and co-wrote *Babe* (1995).

Miller won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for *Happy Feet*. He has received further Academy Award nominations, including for Best Director for *Mad Max: Fury Road*, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, screenaustralia.gov.au.*

## On Fi1m (10)

### Directed (8) — the average rests on these

- *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga* (2024), Fi1m 72, Director, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga.md)
- *Mad Max: Fury Road* (2015), Fi1m 88, Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-fury-road.md)
- *Happy Feet* (2006), Fi1m 71, Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/happy-feet.md)
- *The Witches of Eastwick* (1987), Fi1m 73, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-witches-of-eastwick.md)
- *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* (1985), Fi1m 65, Producer, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-beyond-thunderdome.md)
- *Twilight Zone: The Movie* (1983), Fi1m 63, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/twilight-zone-the-movie.md)
- *Mad Max 2* (1981), Fi1m 88, Screenplay, Director, Characters, Additional Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-2.md)
- *Mad Max* (1979), Fi1m 78, Story, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Babe* (1995), Fi1m 88, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/babe.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Dead Calm* (1989), Fi1m 73, Producer, Second Unit Director — [page](https://film.one/film/dead-calm.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Highway to Valhalla: In Pursuit of Furiosa* (2024), Thanks
- *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga* (2024), Writer, Director, Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga.md)
- *Three Thousand Years of Longing* (2022), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Baby Driver* (2017), Thanks — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/baby-driver.md)
- *Mad Max: Fury Road* (2015), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-fury-road.md)
- *Forgotten Wars, Forgotten Victims* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Happy Feet Two* (2011), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Happy Feet* (2006), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/happy-feet.md)
- *Voyage au centre de la terre* (1999), Conductor
- *Babe: Pig in the City* (1998), Director, Producer, Writer
- *40,000 Years of Dreaming* (1996), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Video Fool for Love* (1996), Producer
- *Babe* (1995), Screenplay, Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/babe.md)
- *Lorenzo's Oil* (1992), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Flirting* (1991), Producer
- *Bangkok Hilton* (1989), series, Producer
- *Dead Calm* (1989), Producer, Second Unit Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/dead-calm.md)
- *Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer* (1988), Producer
- *The Riddle of the Stinson* (1988), Producer
- *The Clean Machine* (1988), Producer
- *The Year My Voice Broke* (1987), Producer
- *The Witches of Eastwick* (1987), Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-witches-of-eastwick.md)
- *Vietnam* (1987), Producer
- *Vietnam* (1987), series, Producer
- *Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome* (1985), Producer, Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-beyond-thunderdome.md)
- *The Making of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'* (1985), Executive Producer
- *Bodyline* (1984), series, Writer, Producer
- *The Cowra Breakout* (1984), Producer
- *Tausend Augen* (1984), as Mann in der Fähre
- *Twilight Zone: The Movie* (1983), Producer, Director — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/twilight-zone-the-movie.md)
- *The Dismissal* (1983), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Mad Max 2* (1981), Director, Screenplay, Characters, Additional Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-2.md)
- *Bellamy* (1981), series, Director
- *The Chain Reaction* (1980), Associate Producer, Second Unit Director
- *Mad Max* (1979), Director, Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max.md)
- *Bluey* (1976), series, Director
- *The Devil in Evening Dress* (1974), Director, Editor
- *Frieze: An Underground Film* (1973), Co-Director
- *Webster's Domain* (1972), Editor, Sound
- *Violence in the Cinema, Part 1* (1971), Director
- *St. Vincent's Revue Film* (1971), Director
- *Mad Max: The Wasteland*, Producer, Director, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![George Miller at the world premiere of Cafe Society, 2016 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/274/gallery-6309595901ac.jpg) George Miller at the world premiere of Cafe Society, 2016 Cannes Film Festival — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Cannes_076_%2827495994373%29.jpg/1280px-Cannes_076_%2827495994373%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![San Francisco, CA, 10/22/1989 -- Lome Prieta earthquake. President Bush (along with Mayor Wilson) touring the site of the collapsed I-880 Cypress Structure. FEM](https://film.one/media/person/274/gallery-8ea74958c591.jpg) San Francisco, CA, 10/22/1989 -- Lome Prieta earthquake. President Bush (along with Mayor Wilson) touring the site of the collapsed I-880 Cypress Structure. FEM — FEMA News Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/FEMA_-_261_-_Photograph_by_FEMA_News_Photo_taken_on_10-01-1989_in_California.jpg/1280px-FEMA_-_261_-_Photograph_by_FEMA_News_Photo_taken_on_10-01-1989_in_California.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Happy Feet director George Miller at the Australian premiere of the film (2006)](https://film.one/media/person/274/gallery-7c4f0f643ee4.jpg) Happy Feet director George Miller at the Australian premiere of the film (2006) — paddynapper, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/George_Miller.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![George Miller (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/274/gallery-eb8b262741ea.jpg) George Miller (2017) — Eva Rinaldi from Sydney Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/George_Miller_%2835487601810%29.jpg/1280px-George_Miller_%2835487601810%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![George Miller](https://film.one/media/person/274/gallery-c6c470a93f22.jpg) George Miller — Image via TMDB
- ![George Miller](https://film.one/media/person/274/gallery-aa073e46ca3e.jpg) George Miller — Image via TMDB
- ![George Miller](https://film.one/media/person/274/gallery-12d71f6ce3db.jpg) George Miller — Image via TMDB
- ![George Miller](https://film.one/media/person/274/gallery-8e8d018b4683.jpg) George Miller — Eva Rinaldi from Sydney Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/George_Miller_%2835706244922%29.jpg/1280px-George_Miller_%2835706244922%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 5 nominated

- 2016: Best Picture (nominated), for *Mad Max: Fury Road*
- 2016: Best Director (nominated), for *Mad Max: Fury Road*
- 2007: Best Animated Feature (won), for *Happy Feet*
- 1996: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Babe*
- 1996: Best Picture (nominated), for *Babe*
- 1993: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Lorenzo's Oil*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2010: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- Officer of the Order of Australia 1996: Officer of the Order of Australia (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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