George Miller
George Miller (born in Brisbane, Australia March 3, 1945) is a writer, director, and producer who first came to prominence writing and directing Mad Max (1979) and its sequels Mad Max 2 (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) starring Mel Gibson. He directed The Witches of Eastwick (1987) with Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, wrote and directed Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) with Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon, Babe: Pig In The City (1998) having also written Babe (1995), the animated Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet Two (2011). He was nominated for his first Golden Globe Award for his return to the Mad Max franchise with Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) with Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. He directed Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) from the 1994 novella by A.S. Byatt The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye.
Golden Globe Awards
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2016 NomineeBest Director - Motion Picture
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1983 NomineeBest Motion Picture – Non-English Language