10 Most Diverse Directors In Hollywood

George Miller has one of the strangest catalogues of any living director. He made his name with the dystopian action films of the Mad Max franchise. He then went on to direct a segment of the Twilight Zone film. Not exactly the same genre but you can see how the themes of Mad Max and The Twilight Zone could overlap with one another. Fair enough.

The Witches of Eastwick came next. Again another thematically dark film, although with much more humour laced into in than in his previous works, it was followed in 1995 with a complete 180 and the release of Babe.

Babe is one of the most family friendly, pure and endlessly enjoyable movies of the 1990s. It is also surprisingly powerful - so much so that James Cromwell, the lead in the film, became a fully committed vegan after the project was completed.

In one decade George Miller had transitioned from making brutal and violent films about the future to tender family friendly films. After the release of the sequel, George Miller fully committed to the family friendly type of film with the release of Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two. Just imagine if Wes Craven had directed A Nightmare On Elm Street and then ten years later directed Home Alone - that's how big the transition was.

Then in 2015 George Miller returned to the Mad Max franchise with the release of Fury Road. It blew all expectations completely out of the water, and is now regarded as one of the best actions films possibly ever made. It turned heads at the Academy and garnered 10 nominations, particularly impressive when you consider just how much the Academy seems to favour either the historical epic or the biopic.

There is truly no way of knowing where George Miller will go next.