Margaret Sixel is an Australian and South African film editor. She is best known for her work as editor on her husband George Miller's films, including Babe: Pig in the City (1998), Happy Feet (2006), and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). For Fury Road, she won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Sixel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- South Africa
- Editor
- 6 on MovieCove · 10 credits in all
What are Margaret Sixel's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Power.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 0 · Serious 2 · Dark 1
Grounded 0 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 3
Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
Steady 1 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 1
Casual 1 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 0
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Margaret Sixel's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Margaret Sixel's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
10 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga(2024)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
Happy Feet(2006)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
The Big House (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Babe: Pig in the City(1998)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
40,000 Years of Dreaming (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Mary: The Mary MacKillop Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Flirting(1991)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
The Great Gold Swindle (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)
Career shape
A full career of 10 titles from 1984 to 2024.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
an Oscar, a BAFTA Award and 1 other major award from 3 major nominations, 2016.
- Oscar, won · Best Achievement in Film Editing
- BAFTA Award, won · Best Editing
+1 other major body · 1 win
- Critics Choice Award, won · Best Editing
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Margaret Sixel's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 78th percentile, the median of all 6; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 73rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
None of their 6 titles divides audiences: 3 are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved2
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the pacing 48/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 59, detractors 28. The element that speaks to their work as an editor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Margaret Sixel's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Margaret Sixel work with?
People who share at least 2 of Margaret Sixel's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; George Miller shares the most, 3.
Directors
- George MillerShared titles: Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Babe: Pig in the City (1998)See all 3 shared titles with George Miller
Composers and cinematographers
- John SealeShared titles: Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)See all 2 shared titles with John Seale
- Tom HolkenborgShared titles: Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Tom Holkenborg
Producers
- Doug MitchellShared titles: Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Babe: Pig in the City (1998)See all 3 shared titles with Doug Mitchell
- P.J. VoetenShared titles: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Babe: Pig in the City (1998)See all 2 shared titles with P.J. Voeten
