George Miller

15 films directed

Biography

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. He has also earned numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

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

In 1995, he also produced the confronting cinema verité documentary Video Fool for Love, which dealt with film editor Robert Gibson's personal life as captured in hundreds of hours of camcorder footage.

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Recurring actors

The career in numbers

US$ 772 mi Total budget from 12 film(s) with data
US$ 1.4 bi Total box office from 12 film(s) with data
US$ 64 mi Average budget from 12 film(s) with data
US$ 120 mi Average box office from 12 film(s) with data
6.7 Average rating from 12 film(s) with data
1.9× Return on investment from 12 film(s) with data

Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.

Films directed

Film	Year	Budget	Box office	Rating
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga	2024	US$ 168 mi	US$ 174 mi	7.4
Three Thousand Years of Longing	2022	US$ 60 mi	US$ 20 mi	6.9
Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	US$ 150 mi	US$ 379 mi	7.6
Happy Feet Two	2011	US$ 130 mi	US$ 150 mi	6.2
Happy Feet	2006	US$ 100 mi	US$ 384 mi	6.2
Babe: Pig in the City	1998	US$ 90 mi	US$ 69 mi	5.7
40,000 Years of Dreaming	1996	—	—	6.4
Lorenzo's Oil	1992	US$ 30 mi	US$ 7 mi	7.1
The Witches of Eastwick	1987	US$ 22 mi	US$ 64 mi	6.5
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	1985	US$ 10 mi	US$ 36 mi	6.2
Twilight Zone: The Movie	1983	US$ 10 mi	US$ 29 mi	6.5
Mad Max 2	1981	US$ 2 mi	US$ 25 mi	7.4
Mad Max	1979	US$ 350,000	US$ 100 mi	6.7
The Devil in Evening Dress	1974	—	—	—
Mad Max: The Wasteland	—	—	—	—