LC control no. | no 88004808 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Miller, George, 1945 March 3- |
Variant(s) | Miliotis, George, 1945- Miller, George, 1945 Mar. 3- |
See also | Founded corporate body of person: Kennedy Miller (Firm) |
Birth date | 1945-03-03 |
Place of birth | Brisbane (Qld.) |
Field of activity | Motion pictures--Production and direction Television--Production and direction Motion picture authorship Television authorship |
Profession or occupation | Motion picture producers and directors Television producers and directors Screenwriters Television writers |
Special note | Do not confuse with: Miller, George (George Trumbull) |
Found in | Mathews, S. 35 mm dreams, 1984, surrogate: cover, p. 4 (George Miller; Australian film director) Internatl. dict. of films and filmmakers, 1984-1987 v. 2, p. 372-3 (Miller, George; b. in Brisbane, Aust., 3/3/45) Imdb, Mar. 31, 2011 (George Miller; b. George Miliotis on Mar. 3, 1945 in Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia; director, screenwriter, actor) The art of Mad Max, 2015: title page (foreword by George Miller; based upon screenplay written by George Miller) Wikipedia, June 6, 2016 (George Miller (director); George Miller AO (born 3 March 1945) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor; he is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with The Road Warrior and Fury Road being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time; aside from the Mad Max films, Miller has been involved in a wide range of projects; these include the Academy Award-winning Babe and Happy Feet film series; Miller is co-founder of the production houses Kennedy Miller Mitchell, formerly known as Kennedy Miller, and Dr. D Studios; his younger brother Bill Miller and Doug Mitchell have been producers on almost all the films in Miller's later career, since the death of his original producing partner Byron Kennedy; in 2006, Miller won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Happy Feet; he has been nominated for five other Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay in 1992 for Lorenzo's Oil, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay in 1995 for Babe, and Best Picture and Best Director for Fury Road in 2015) |
Associated language | eng |