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George Miller is best known for creating and directing every film in the Mad Max franchise, starting with the original Mad Max in 1979. The series includes Mad Max 2 (also known as The Road Warrior), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Yes. Miller studied medicine at the University of New South Wales and completed his residency at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital in 1972. He worked as a physician for several years before fully transitioning to film.
George Miller has won one Academy Award, for Best Animated Feature for Happy Feet in 2006. He has received six nominations across five different categories, including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Mad Max: Fury Road received ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for Miller. The film won six Academy Awards when it was released in 2015.
Byron Kennedy was a fellow student Miller met at a film workshop at Melbourne University in 1971. The two became close friends and founding partners of Kennedy Miller Productions, which financed the original Mad Max independently. Kennedy died in 1983, and Miller kept his name in the company, which was later renamed Kennedy Miller Mitchell in 2009.
Miller produced Flirting, Dead Calm, and the television miniseries Bangkok Hilton and Vietnam, all of which starred Nicole Kidman. These projects were instrumental in the development of her career in the late 1980s and early 1990s.