Academy Award win for Australian Director George Miller
The Australian Director, George Miller, has won an Oscar for best animated feature at the 2007 Academy Award Ceremony for his film Happy Feet. Created by the team at Animal Logic Studios in Sydney, Happy Feet is story of a tap-dancing penguin that carries an environmental message. In 2005 the National Portrait Gallery acquired this portrait of George Miller taken by the Australian photographer, Karin Catt. George Miller (b. 1945), director and producer, was born in Brisbane and qualified as a medical doctor before teaming with the producer Byron Kennedy to make Mad Max (1979), starring the 21-year-old Mel Gibson. The success in America of Mad Max 2 (there called The Road Warrior) earned Miller a Hollywood call-up to direct an episode of Twilight Zone-The Movie (1983). His co-directors on that project included Steven Spielberg and John Landis. He subsequently made Mad Max- Beyond Thunderdome (1985), The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) - for which he and the Australian playwright Nick Enright were nominated for an Academy Award for best screenplay. After producing the worldwide hit Babe (1995), he directed its darker sequel, Babe: Pig in the City (1998).
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