1. Bennett Altman Miller was born on December 30,1966 and is an American film director who is known for having directed the films Capote, Moneyball, and Foxcatcher.
12 Facts About Bennett Miller
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Bennett Miller has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Director.
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Bennett 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.
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Bennett Miller began his film career directing the 1998 documentary The Cruise.
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Bennett 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.
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In 2006 Bennett Miller directed the Bob Dylan music video When the Deal Goes Down starring Scarlett Johansson.
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In 2009, Bennett 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.
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Bennett Miller has directed 6 performers to Academy Award nominations: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener for Capote, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill for Moneyball, and Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher.
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In 1999, Bennett Miller directed a campaign of thirty-second television ads for the Charlotte Hornets.
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Bennett Miller was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Capote and Foxcatcher.
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Bennett Miller was nominated for the David Lean Award for Direction at the BAFTAs in 2006.
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Bennett Miller won the Best Director Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Foxcatcher, which was part of the main competition for the Palme d'Or.