Trivia

Raised money to make Mad Max (1979) by working as an Emergency Room Doctor.

Warner Bros. gave him the rights to The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) to get him to step aside as the director of Contact (1997).

George was a practising physician until, after a film course at Melbourne University he teamed up with Byron Kennedy to make Violence in the Cinema, Part 1 (1971).

Was set to direct Contact (1997) but was replaced by Warner Bros studio due to creative differences on the project and the delay of the whole production start date. Miller was replaced by Robert Zemeckis.

In 2007 he was set to direct a film adaptation of DC comic's Justice League. Miller started the preproduction and casting but the project was put on indefinite hold due to the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike and finally canceled.

He was a part of the movement dubbed the "Australian New Wave" by the press. They were a group of filmmakers and performers who emerged from Down Under at about the same time in the early 1980s and found work in other parts of the world. Other members included actors Mel Gibson and Judy Davis and directors Peter Weir, and Gillian Armstrong.

Credits, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Akira Kurosawa, and Buster Keaton as his biggest influences.

Was considered to direct The Batman (2022).

He was awarded the A.O. (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the Australian Film Industry as a director, producer, and writer, as founding board director of the museum of contemporary art and as a Member of the International Jury of the Cannes Film Festival in France.

Was a huge DC comics fan as a kid.

Not to be confused with the director of The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990).

Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Babe: Pig in the City (1998) and Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) are the only feature films he has directed that were not produced by Warner Brothers.

Directed one Oscar nominated performance: Susan Sarandon was nominated as 'Best Actress' for Lorenzo's Oil (1992).

President of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 69th Cannes International Film Festival in 2016.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 41st Cannes International Film Festival in 1988.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 52nd Cannes International Film Festival in 1999.

He has produced two films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Babe (1995) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). He has also directed one Best Picture nominee: Mad Max: Fury Road. In addition, he directed the Best Animated Feature winner Happy Feet (2006).

Older brother of Bill Miller.

Kings Cross, New South Wales, Australia (January 2009)