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Mike Mills

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Mike Mills

Born March 20, 1966 in Berkeley, California, USA20 films

Michael Chadbourne Mills (born March 20, 1966) is an American film and music video director, writer and graphic designer. He is best known for his independent films, Beginners (2010) and 20th Century Women (2016). For the latter, Mills was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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20th Century Women posterFirst watch20th Century Women20167.3In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and…View film

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Beginners poster6.8Beginners2011C'mon C'mon poster7.1C'mon C'mon2021Thumbsucker poster6.2Thumbsucker2005

Filmography

20 films as director
  1. TBAUntitled Mike Mills FilmDirector
  2. 2021C'mon C'monDirector
  3. 2019I Am Easy to FindDirector
  4. 201620th Century WomenDirector
  5. 2014A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought AloneDirector
  6. 2011BeginnersDirector
  7. 2009The Boy and the Creature, 1981Director
  8. 2007Does Your Soul Have a Cold?Director
  9. 2006Cinema16: American Short FilmsDirector
  10. 2005ThumbsuckerDirector
  11. 2002Pulp HitsDirector
  12. 2001PaperboysDirector
  13. 2000DeformerDirector
  14. 2000Not How, Or When, Or Why, But YesDirector
  15. 1999Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and PlayingDirector
  16. 1999The Architecture of ReassuranceDirector
  17. 1998Richard June's BackyardDirector
  18. 1998Hair Shoes Love and HonestyDirector
  19. 1995Skating with Dave and JaredDirector
  20. 1995An Introduction to HarmolodicsDirector