George Miller is an Australian filmmaker who is best known for creating the Mad Max franchise, whose second and fourth installments, Mad Max 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road, have been hailed as two of the greatest action films of all time, with Fury Road winning six Academy Awards.

Miller is very diverse in genre and style, having also directed the biographical drama Lorenzo`s Oil, the dark fantasy The Witches of Eastwick, and the Academy Award-winning animated film Happy Feet, produced the family-friendly fantasy adventure Babe, and directed the sequel Babe: Pig in the City.

Trained as a physician at the University of New South Wales, Miller worked in the medical field for several years before entering the film industry full-time. He is a co-founder of the production houses Kennedy Miller Mitchell, formerly known as Kennedy Miller, and Dr. D Studios.

His next venture Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) premiered out of competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2022, where it received a six-minute standing ovation. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its visuals and performances. He then marched on direct a spinoff in the Mad Max saga, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).

Miller was married to actress Sandy Gore from 1985 to 1992; they have a daughter. He then married film editor Margaret Sixel in 1995. They have two sons.