Bill Miller (born 1960) is a feature film producer based in Sydney.
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Life and career
Bill Miller was born in Queensland and along with his older brother George Miller, attending Sydney Boys High School. Like George, who stopped practicing medicine to become a film director, Bill, a successful arts and entertainment lawyer, abandoned the legal profession to pursue a filmmaking career. She collaborated with George and Byron Kennedy on their initial short film, including Violence in Cinema: Part One, a 14-minute parody of violent films of the 1970s. The short film won two Australian Film Film Awards, and gave the film trio with confidence to pursue a more ambitious project and Bill acted as an associate producer in the original Mad Max film, starring Mel Gibson.
Bill shared the honor of being an Academy Award nominee with George and long-time partner Doug Mitchell for their work as a producer in the family film Babe. In addition to being nominated for Best Picture in 1996, the film earned a total of seven Academy Award nominations, winning an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. He also won the Golden Globe for Best Movie Movie (Comedy/Music) and earned BAFTA Award nomination for Best Movie. Following Babe's success, she also went on to serve as a producer on her sequel, Babe: Pig in the City .
Together with George and Doug Mitchell, he produces the computer animated film Happy Feet, a musical epic about the life of penguins in Antarctica, featuring the sounds of Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Anthony La Paglia, Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving, and Brittany Murphy. Before starting production he took part in a six-week expedition to southern Antarctica. The film that was distributed by Warner Brothers was released in late 2006, and later became one of the most successful animated film projects in Australia. A box office success worldwide, nominated for awards including the Golden Globe, which went on to win an Oscar Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and an equivalent British BAFTA award. Miller was followed up as a producer on the animated sequel, Happy Feet 2 , released worldwide by the end of 2011. He has developed projects for movies, television and live theater.
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Movieography
References
External links
- Bill Miller on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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