The Guardian: ‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival
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George Miller
George Miller is an Australian filmmaker. In a career spanning four decades, he has received critical and popular success, and is widely known for creating and directing every film in the Mad Max franchise starting in 1979, including two entries which are considered two of the greatest action films of all time according to Metacritic. Miller has earned numerous accolades, including an Academy Awar…
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Born 3 March 1945 · Q446960
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2025· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Tina Turner remembered by Mad Max director George Miller: ‘She was the opposite of a diva’
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: ‘We’re hardwired for stories’: Mad Max director George Miller on myths, medicine and a pointy-eared Idris Elba
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The Guardian: ‘It’s absolutely disgusting’: watching George Miller’s rarely seen first film
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The Guardian: Melbourne international film festival 2022: 10 movies to see, from Crimes of the Future to new George Miller
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2020· 1 entry
It was reported that Miller would next direct the Mad Max spinoff Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Welcome to the Tidyverse” in Journal of Open Source Software — cited 20,645 times.
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2015· 2 entries
And again in early 2017, Miller said "the fifth film in the franchise will be titled Mad Max: The Wasteland
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“the fifth film in the franchise will be titled Mad Max: The Wasteland.”
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2012· 1 entry
Miller began principal photography on Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth film in the Mad Max series, after several years of production delays
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2011· 1 entry
The Happy Feet sequel Happy Feet Two was released by Dr
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
As a way to recognise producer Doug Mitchell's role in the company
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Happy Feet (2007).
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Miller signed on to direct a Justice League film titled Justice League: Mortal
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Twist Party!!!”.
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (1996).
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1995· 2 entries
Miller also produced Video Fool for Love, a controversial and divisive cinema verité documentary shot on video by film editor Robert Gibson that deals with Gibson's personal life and relationship issues
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Miller produced and co-wrote the comedy-drama Babe directed by Chris Noonan
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1990· 1 entry
Published “Basic local alignment search tool” in Journal of Molecular Biology — cited 80,952 times.
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1987· 1 entry
Miller directed The Witches of Eastwick, starring Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon, Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer
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1983· 2 entries
His main producers have been his younger brother Bill Miller and Doug Mitchell
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Miller kept his name in the company
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1979· 2 entries
Including two entries which are considered two of the greatest action films of all time according to Metacritic
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Miller made his feature-length directorial debut with Mad Max
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1975· 1 entry
The film was independently financed by Kennedy Miller Productions and went on to become an international success
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1972· 1 entry
Miller completed his residency at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, spending his time off crewing on short experimental films
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1971· 1 entry
George attended a film workshop at Melbourne University where he met fellow student Byron Kennedy, with whom he formed a lasting friendship and production partnership, until Kennedy's death
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1959· 1 entry
Published “Use of Dinitrosalicylic Acid Reagent for Determination of Reducing Sugar” in Analytical Chemistry — cited 22,531 times.
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-03-03.
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1940· 1 entry
Miller has said many times that the 1940 version of Pinocchio is one of his favourite films.
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