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Bennett Miller is a Director, Producer, Director of Photography and Thanks American born on 30 december 1966 at New York City (USA)
Bennett Miller (born December 30, 1966) is an American film director.
Miller is the director of the feature Moneyball (2011). He also directed Capote (2005), a film for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Director and the documentary film The Cruise (1998). He has also directed television commercials and music videos, most recently Bob Dylan's "When the Deal Goes Down."
Après le documentaire The Cruise (1998), il réalise son premier long métrage, qui sort en 2005. C'est une biographie de l'écrivain Truman Capote. Le film devient un grand succès, Philip Seymour Hoffman remportant notamment l'Oscar du meilleur acteur. Bennett Miller est quant à lui nommé pour l'Oscar du meilleur réalisateur, finalement remporté par Ang Lee pour Le Secret de Brokeback Mountain.
Son second long métrage, Le Stratège, sort en 2011. Brad Pitt y incarne Billy Beane, ancien manager général ("general manager" ou "GM") de la franchise de baseball des Athletics d'Oakland. Le film reçoit de nombreuses nominations, notamment aux Oscars 2012 (meilleur film, meilleur acteur, etc.).
Pour son film suivant, Foxcatcher, il reste dans le milieu du sport. Cependant, le film revient surtout sur l’assassinat du champion olympique de lutte libre américain Dave Schultz. Le film est sélectionné au Festival de Cannes 2014 et Bennett Miller y reçoit le prix de la mise en scène. L'œuvre est un succès critique et Miller est à nouveau nommé aux Oscars en tant que meilleur réalisateur.
Il travaille ensuite à une adaptation du roman de Charles Dickens, Un chant de Noël, en collaboration avec le scénariste Tom Stoppard.
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Miller is the director of the feature Moneyball (2011). He also directed Capote (2005), a film for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Director and the documentary film The Cruise (1998). He has also directed television commercials and music videos, most recently Bob Dylan's "When the Deal Goes Down."
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Il sort diplômé de la Mamaroneck High School en 1985, où il est camarade de classe avec Dan Futterman.Après le documentaire The Cruise (1998), il réalise son premier long métrage, qui sort en 2005. C'est une biographie de l'écrivain Truman Capote. Le film devient un grand succès, Philip Seymour Hoffman remportant notamment l'Oscar du meilleur acteur. Bennett Miller est quant à lui nommé pour l'Oscar du meilleur réalisateur, finalement remporté par Ang Lee pour Le Secret de Brokeback Mountain.
Son second long métrage, Le Stratège, sort en 2011. Brad Pitt y incarne Billy Beane, ancien manager général ("general manager" ou "GM") de la franchise de baseball des Athletics d'Oakland. Le film reçoit de nombreuses nominations, notamment aux Oscars 2012 (meilleur film, meilleur acteur, etc.).
Pour son film suivant, Foxcatcher, il reste dans le milieu du sport. Cependant, le film revient surtout sur l’assassinat du champion olympique de lutte libre américain Dave Schultz. Le film est sélectionné au Festival de Cannes 2014 et Bennett Miller y reçoit le prix de la mise en scène. L'œuvre est un succès critique et Miller est à nouveau nommé aux Oscars en tant que meilleur réalisateur.
Il travaille ensuite à une adaptation du roman de Charles Dickens, Un chant de Noël, en collaboration avec le scénariste Tom Stoppard.
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Foxcatcher (2014)
, 2h10Directed by Bennett Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about families, Sports films
Actors Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Carell, Sienna Miller, Anthony Michael Hall, Vanessa Redgrave
Rating69%
Olympic wrestling champion Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) speaks at an elementary school in place of his older brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo). Both are Olympic gold medal winners, but Mark feels overshadowed by Dave. Mark is contacted by philanthropist and wrestling enthusiast John E. du Pont (Steve Carell), an heir to the E.I. du Pont family fortune, who arranges to fly Mark to his estate in Pennsylvania where du Pont has built a private wrestling training facility. Du Pont invites Mark to join his wrestling team, Team Foxcatcher, to train for the World Championship and be paid. Mark accepts the offer, with du Pont urging him to enlist Dave as well. Dave declines for the sake of his wife and two children who are settled where they live, so Mark moves to Pennsylvania alone.
Moneyball (2011)
, 2h13Directed by Bennett Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Casey Bond, Chris Pratt
Rating75%
Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is upset by his team's loss to the New York Yankees in the 2001 postseason, after the Yankees overcome a 2-0 series lead. With the impending departure of star players Johnny Damon, Jason Giambi, and Jason Isringhausen to free agency, Beane needs to assemble a competitive team for 2002, but must overcome Oakland's limited payroll. During a visit to the Cleveland Indians, Beane meets Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a young Yale economics graduate with radical ideas about how to assess players' value. Beane tests Brand's theory by asking whether he would have drafted him (out of high school), Beane having been a Major League player before becoming general manager. Though scouts considered Beane a phenomenal prospect, his career in the Major Leagues was disappointing. After some prodding, Brand admits that he would not have drafted him until the ninth round and that Beane would probably have accepted a scholarship to Stanford instead. Beane hires the inexperienced Brand to be the Athletics assistant general manager.
Capote (2006)
, 1h54Directed by Bennett Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about writers, Prison films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about capital punishment, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr., Bruce Greenwood, Mark Pellegrino, Katherine Shindle
Rating72%
In 1959, the four dead bodies of the Clutter family are discovered on their Kansas farm. While reading The New York Times, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is riveted by the story and calls The New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn (Bob Balaban) to tell him that he plans to document the tragedy.
The Cruise (1998)
, 1h16Directed by Bennett Miller
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about cities
Rating75%
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Foxcatcher (2014)
, 2h10Directed by Bennett Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about families, Sports films
Actors Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Carell, Sienna Miller, Anthony Michael Hall, Vanessa Redgrave
Roles Producer
Rating69%
Olympic wrestling champion Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) speaks at an elementary school in place of his older brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo). Both are Olympic gold medal winners, but Mark feels overshadowed by Dave. Mark is contacted by philanthropist and wrestling enthusiast John E. du Pont (Steve Carell), an heir to the E.I. du Pont family fortune, who arranges to fly Mark to his estate in Pennsylvania where du Pont has built a private wrestling training facility. Du Pont invites Mark to join his wrestling team, Team Foxcatcher, to train for the World Championship and be paid. Mark accepts the offer, with du Pont urging him to enlist Dave as well. Dave declines for the sake of his wife and two children who are settled where they live, so Mark moves to Pennsylvania alone.
The Cruise (1998)
, 1h16Directed by Bennett Miller
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about cities
Roles Producer
Rating75%
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The Cruise (1998)
, 1h16Directed by Bennett Miller
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about cities
Roles Director of Photography
Rating75%
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
, 1h41Directed by Spike Jonze
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Max Records, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, Paul Dano, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara
Roles Thanks
Rating66%
The film begins with Max, a lonely nine-year-old boy with an active imagination whose parents are divorced, wearing a wolf costume and chasing his dog. His older sister, Claire, does nothing when her friends crush Max's snow fort (with him inside) during a snowball fight. Out of frustration, Max messes up her bedroom and destroys a frame that he had made for her. At school, Max's teacher teaches him and his classmates about the eventual death of the sun. Later on, his mother, Connie, invites her boyfriend Adrian to dinner. Max becomes upset with his mother for not coming to the fort he made in his room. He wears his wolf costume, acts like an animal, and demands to be fed. When his mother gets upset, he throws a tantrum and bites her on the shoulder. She yells at him and he runs away, scared by what has transpired. At the edge of a pond Max finds a small boat that he boards.