Bennett Miller: Filmography

Bennett Miller is a Hollywood producer and director. On his account, eighteen prestigious film awards. He was twice nominated for an Oscar, and in 2015 he won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The films of the American director are the topic of the article.

Youth

Bennett Miller, whose biography began in 1966, spent his early years in New York. Once in the school library he met a future writer, a young man named Denis Futterman. This meeting predetermined the fate of the future director. Already in the early years, these creative personalities were fascinated by theatrical art. They did not miss a single premiere. And once Bennett Miller during the performance in the leading theater of the city was so delighted with the effect that the actors played on the audience (and on him, among others), that he made the final decision: he would become a director. However, subsequently the hero of this article connected his life not with theater, but with cinema.

When Miller was sixteen, he went to a summer theater camp. Here he has made friends with young talents. The names of many of them are widely known today. One of Bennett's new friends was actor Philip Hoffman, who played after almost a quarter of a century in the film Capote.

Student years

After graduating from college, Bennett Miller continued his studies at the University of New York. Initially, it attracted only theatrical art. But the older he became, the more interest he awoke to the cinema. But, despite the great plans for the future, Bennett Miller studied the university program without much diligence. So, he was soon expelled. Dreams about film career, the young man combined with an enthusiastic game of chess, which is a bit distanced the day when the name of Miller became famous in Hollywood, and then all over the world.

"Cruise"

For several years, Bennett was interrupted by casual earnings. From time to time, he took an insignificant part in the creation of films of famous directors. A couple of times he worked as an assistant director. His first painting Bennett Miller created in 1998. This documentary film tells of a man who works as a guide.

Timothy Levitch - and that's the name of the hero of Miller's film - is madly in love with his city. Every day, passing by a sightseeing bus past the famous sights of New York, it is not limited to boring statistics and important historical dates. Telling tourists about his city, Timothy does from time to time philosophical digressions. He commutes his stories with legends and legends connected with the history of New York.

Levitcha Miller knew hardly since childhood. Once it occurred to him that this unusual person should become the hero of his picture. Since then he has followed the guide with the camera. Timothy Levitch did not mind. Moreover, after the film debut Miller, he became famous far beyond his native New York.

Capote

In the track record of the director there are different genre films. Bennett Miller debuted at the cinema, presenting to the audience a documentary film. And seven years later he created a feature film dedicated to Truman Capote. The role of the American prose writer in this film was played by his friend Miller Philip Seymour Hoffman. For this work, the actor received an "Oscar", the only one in his life.

True talented writers sometimes take a dangerous step in search of a new idea for their work. So, Capote, after reading once in a local newspaper about a crime that has been committed, decides to write a book about this event. And in order to experience experiences, emotions of criminals, tries to meet with them. He succeeds in this after the arrest of the participants in the armed attack. The prison administration allows the famous writer to meet with the prisoners. However, communication with one of them has too much influence on the spiritual state of the prose writer. Capote is present at execution. And later the book "Cold-blooded murder" is published.

After the premiere of "Capote" only two films created Bennett Miller. Filmography includes four pictures. In the film "The Man Who Changed Everything", the main role was played by Brad Pitt. According to critics, this film is the best in Miller's career. In 2014 the premiere of the film "The Hunter of Faces" was held.