Bennett Miller (born December 30, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director. Bennett was born in New York City and has known writer Dan Futterman and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman since their childhood. He and Futterman were classmates at Mamaroneck High School. Miller is the director of the feature Capote (2005) and the documentary film The Cruise (1998). He has also directed television commercials and music videos, most recently for Bob Dylan's, "When the Deal Goes Down." Miller was nominated for the 2005 Academy Award for Directing (for Capote). On September 20, 2006, Miller was announced to direct Paramount Vantage's The Immortalist, a "contemporary, character-driven drama set in the world of life-extension".[1]. Miller is featured in a special feature of the DVD edition of Knocked Up; he plays the role of the director of the director(Judd Apatow) in a mockumentary of the directing of the film.
External links
- Bennett Miller at the Internet Movie Database
- the Jewish Journal interview (February 24, 2006)
- In an interview on Charlie Rose [2]
