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Bennett Miller
Bennett Altman Miller (born December 30, 1966) is an American film director who is known for having directed the films Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014). He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Director.
Miller was born in New York City to an engineer father and a painter mother. In his youth he knew writer Dan Futterman and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. He and Futterman were classmates at Mamaroneck High School, and all three participated in the New York State Summer School of the Arts. The three later collaborated on Capote.
Miller attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, with Hoffman again as a classmate, but dropped out shortly before he would have graduated.
While attending NYU, Miller was a founding member of the short-lived Bullstoi Ensemble theater company along with Hoffman and fellow actor Steven Schub. It was during this time that Miller, Hoffman and Schub made a pact that if any of them ever won an Academy Award, their entire acceptance speech would consist of nothing but barking.
Miller made his feature directorial debut with the 1998 documentary The Cruise, a black-and-white portrait of New York City bus tour guide Timothy "Speed" Levitch. The film was shot using MiniDV equipment and has later been discussed as an example of late-1990s digital independent filmmaking. As described by Wheeler Winston Dixon the film was made using handheld digital cameras. The film received positive critical attention and helped establish Miller as an independent filmmaker.
Miller turned down several offers of film projects, until he was able to get support to make the film Capote with Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played Truman Capote. The film premiered in September 2005 at the Telluride Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics.
In 2006 Miller directed the Bob Dylan music video When the Deal Goes Down starring Scarlett Johansson. Then, in 2008 he directed Johansson's music video for her Tom Waits cover of Falling Down featuring an appearance by Salman Rushdie.
In 2009, Miller was hired by Columbia Pictures to direct the film Moneyball, based on the 2003 book of the same name by Michael Lewis, after its previously-hired director, Steven Soderbergh, clashed with producers over the tone of the film. The resulting film, released in 2011, was a critical and commercial success.
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Bennett Miller
Bennett Altman Miller (born December 30, 1966) is an American film director who is known for having directed the films Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014). He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Director.
Miller was born in New York City to an engineer father and a painter mother. In his youth he knew writer Dan Futterman and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. He and Futterman were classmates at Mamaroneck High School, and all three participated in the New York State Summer School of the Arts. The three later collaborated on Capote.
Miller attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, with Hoffman again as a classmate, but dropped out shortly before he would have graduated.
While attending NYU, Miller was a founding member of the short-lived Bullstoi Ensemble theater company along with Hoffman and fellow actor Steven Schub. It was during this time that Miller, Hoffman and Schub made a pact that if any of them ever won an Academy Award, their entire acceptance speech would consist of nothing but barking.
Miller made his feature directorial debut with the 1998 documentary The Cruise, a black-and-white portrait of New York City bus tour guide Timothy "Speed" Levitch. The film was shot using MiniDV equipment and has later been discussed as an example of late-1990s digital independent filmmaking. As described by Wheeler Winston Dixon the film was made using handheld digital cameras. The film received positive critical attention and helped establish Miller as an independent filmmaker.
Miller turned down several offers of film projects, until he was able to get support to make the film Capote with Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played Truman Capote. The film premiered in September 2005 at the Telluride Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics.
In 2006 Miller directed the Bob Dylan music video When the Deal Goes Down starring Scarlett Johansson. Then, in 2008 he directed Johansson's music video for her Tom Waits cover of Falling Down featuring an appearance by Salman Rushdie.
In 2009, Miller was hired by Columbia Pictures to direct the film Moneyball, based on the 2003 book of the same name by Michael Lewis, after its previously-hired director, Steven Soderbergh, clashed with producers over the tone of the film. The resulting film, released in 2011, was a critical and commercial success.
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