- Born
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Bennett Miller is an American film director, best known for Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014). He began his film career directing the 1998 documentary The Cruise.
In 2006 Miller directed the Bob Dylan music video "When the Deal Goes Down" starring Scarlett Johansson.
Miller has directed 6 actors to Oscar nominations: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener for Capote, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill for Moneyball, and Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher. Hoffman won the Oscar for his work in Capote.
- IMDb mini biography by: Pedro Borges
- RelativesTheodore Miller(Sibling)J.B. Miller(Sibling)
- Frequently makes films that are true stories (Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011) and Foxcatcher (2014))
- Frequently casts actors in roles that are against type (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jonah Hill and Steve Carell)
- Has directed 6 actors to Oscar nominations: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener for Capote (2005); Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill for Moneyball (2011), and Steve Carell, and Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher (2014). Hoffman won an Oscar for his work in Capote (2005).
- Did not direct a feature film until he was 38 years old.
- All three of Miller's feature films have received Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Best Screenplay (Original for Foxcatcher and Capote, Adapted for Moneyball) and either Supporting Actor or Supporting Actress.
- Is a huge fan of chess, and wants to make a chess movie in the future.
- Along with Paul Thomas Anderson; he is the only director to direct the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman more then once.
- You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.
- My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.
- People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.
- It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
- For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.
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