Bennett Miller

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Bennett Miller (born December 30, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director. He was born in New York City to a Jewish family, and has known writer Dan Futterman and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman since their childhood. He and Futterman were classmates at Mamaroneck High School, where both participated in the PACE performing arts program.

Miller is the director of the feature biopic Capote (2005) and the documentary film The Cruise (1998). He has also directed television commercials. 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]

[edit] External links

• Bennett Miller at the Internet Movie Database
• the Jewish Journal interview (February 24, 2006)
• In an interview on Charlie Rose [2]