Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 31 of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and on this episode we are joined by one of the most

interesting and unusual filmmakers in the world.

He's Ossie-born George Miller, the man behind Mad Max, the original one from 36 years ago, and its sequels

over the years up to and including 2015's Mad Max Fury Road.

In between he also directed everything from the Witches of Eastwick to Bab, Pig in the City,

and Happy Feet 1 in 2, and produced Dead Com and the original Babe.

But never has he received as much international attention and acclaim as he has for Mad Max

Fury Road, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last May and then opened to a tremendous

reception from critics and audiences, 97% approval on rotten tomatoes,

nearly 154 million dollar gross domestically,

nearly 376 million dollar gross internationally.

But perhaps the most remarkable thing to the amazement of even Miller himself is that this film has stuck around all the way through this award season.

It's shown up virtually everywhere. It's on the AFIs list of the top 10 films of 2015.

It was a nominee for the top awards of the Producers Guild of America and the

Directors Guild of America.

And on Monday Miller headed to the Oscar Nominees Luncheon as a nominee for both Best Picture and Best Director,

two of the ten nominations that the film received.

While it's hard to pin down Miller as a filmmaker because he does sort of everything, it's less hard to pin him down as a guy.

He has a reputation that is borne out in the conversation that we had as just the loveliest, most

down-to-earth humble guy who is as amazed as anyone at the trajectory that his career has

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