George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with
The Road Warrior (1981) and
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time. Aside from the Mad Max films, Miller has been involved in a wide range of projects. These include the Academy Award-winning
Babe (1995) and
Happy Feet (2006) film series.
Miller is 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 (1992), Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay in 1995 for
Babe (1995), and Best Picture and Best Director for
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).