Bennett Miller: filmography

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Bennett Miller is a Hollywood producer and director. He has eighteen prestigious film awards to his credit. He was twice nominated for an Oscar, and in 2015 received a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Films by an 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 carried away by theatrical art. They did not miss a single premiere. And once Bennett Miller, during a performance in the leading theater of the city, was so delighted with the effect that the acting had on the audience (including him) that he made the final decision: he would become the director. However, later the hero of this article connected his life not with the theater, but with cinema.

When Miller was sixteen, he went to a summer theater camp. Here he made acquaintances with young talents. The names of many of them are now widely known to viewers. One of the newBennett's friends became the actor Philip Hoffman, who played almost a quarter of a century later in the movie Capote.

Student years

After graduating from college, Bennett Miller continued his studies at New York University. Initially, he was attracted exclusively by theatrical art. But the older he got, the more interest he woke up in cinema. But, despite the great plans for the future, Bennett Miller studied the university program without much zeal. Therefore, he was soon expelled. The young man combined dreams of a film career with a passionate game of chess, which somewhat postponed the day when Miller's name became famous in Hollywood, and then throughout the world.

Cruise

For several years, Bennett worked odd jobs. From time to time he took a minor part in the creation of films by famous directors. A couple of times he had a chance to work as an assistant director. Bennett Miller created his first painting in 1998. This documentary is about a man who works as a tour guide.

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

Levitch Miller hardly knew since childhood. One day it occurred to him that this unusual person should become the hero of his picture. Since then, he has followed the tour guide with a camera. Timothy Levitch didn't mind. Moreover, after Miller's film debut, he became famous far beyond the borders of his native New York.

Capote

The director's track record includes films of various genres. Bennett Miller made his film debut by presenting a documentary film to the audience. 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 Miller's friend Philip Seymour Hoffman. For this work, the actor received an Oscar, the only one in his life.

Real talented writers sometimes take a dangerous step in search of a new idea for their work. So, Capote, having read once in a local newspaper about a crime that has happened, decides to write a book about this event. And in order to feel the feelings, emotions of criminals, he tries to meet with them. He succeeds after the arrest of the participants in the armed attack. The eminent writer is allowed by the prison administration to meet with the prisoners. However, communication with one of them has too much influence on the state of mind of the prose writer. Capote is present at the execution. And later, the book "In Cold Blood" is published.

After the premiere of "Capote", only two films were created by Bennett Miller. The filmography includes four pictures. in the pictureThe Man Who Changed Everything starred Brad Pitt. According to critics, this film is the best of Miller's career. In 2014, the premiere of the film "Face Hunter" took place.