12 Facts About Margaret Sixel

Margaret Sixel is an Australian and South African film editor.

Margaret Sixel is best known for her work as editor on her husband George Miller's films, including Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet, and Mad Max: Fury Road.

Margaret Sixel studied film editing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, earning a Specialist Extension Certificate in Film Editing in 1989.

In 1984, Sixel began work as an assistant editor and dubber on the Australian television mini-series, The Last Bastion, where she met one of the directors of the picture, and future collaborator, George Miller.

In 1994, Margaret Sixel was appointed film editor for Kay Pavlou's dramatised Australian documentary, Mary, about Australian saint Mary MacKillop.

Three years later, Margaret Sixel edited the television documentary 40,000 Years of Dreaming for director George Miller.

Margaret Sixel's remaining three feature film projects have since all been collaborations between herself and director George Miller, beginning in 1998 with Babe: Pig in the City, and followed by Happy Feet in 2006, and Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015.

In 2012, Margaret Sixel began editing Mad Max: Fury Road under the direction of George Miller.

For two years, Margaret Sixel worked for roughly 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, for a total of over 6,000 collective hours of editing to create the film's eventual 120 minute running length.

In 2016, Margaret Sixel won the Academy Award for Best Editing for her work on editing Mad Max: Fury Road.

In regard to her role as a woman editor, Margaret Sixel has stated that she does not consider her gender to be relevant in the editing process.

In 1995, Margaret Sixel married director George Miller; they have two sons, and Sixel has a stepdaughter from Miller's previous marriage.