Margaret Sixel

Margaret Sixel

Editor. Born 1 January 1950 in South Africa.

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Born
1 January 1950, South Africa
Active
2015–present

Biography

Margaret Sixel is an Australian and South African film editor. She studied film editing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, where she earned a Specialist Extension Certificate in 1989.

She has collaborated extensively with director George Miller, her husband since 1995, editing his films including Babe: Pig in the City (1998), Happy Feet (2006), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). For Mad Max: Fury Road she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, becoming the first South African-born editor to receive an Oscar.

Films and series

Beyond what we have reviewed, Margaret Sixel is known for Happy Feet (2006), Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) and Babe: Pig in the City (1998).

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

2024 · Editor

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Mad Max: Fury Road

2015 · Editor