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Michael Chadbourne Mills is an American film and music video director, writer and graphic designer. He is best known for his independent films, Beginners (2010), 20th Century Women (2016), and C'mon, C'mon (2021). Mills received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination for 20th Century Women.

Mike Mills
Born
Michael Chadbourne Mills

Berkeley, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Director
  • writer
  • designer
Years active1995–present
Spouse
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(m. 2009)​
Children1

Early life and education


Michael Chadbourne Mills[1] was born in Berkeley, California,[2] the son of Janet L. Dowd, a draftsperson, and Paul Chadbourne Mills, an art historian and museum director.[3][4][5]

He graduated from Cooper Union in Lower Manhattan, New York City.[6]


Career


Mike Mills has created music videos for acts including Moby, Yoko Ono and Air. Air named the fifth song on their album Talkie Walkie after Mills.[7][failed verification]

He has also worked as a graphic designer on promotional material and album covers for such acts as Beastie Boys, Beck, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants, and Ol' Dirty Bastard. In addition he has created graphics for X-Girl, Marc Jacobs, and produces his own line of posters and fabrics called Humans by Mike Mills.[8]

Mills played guitar and performed background vocals with the short-lived indie rock band Butter 08 along with Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, Russell Simins of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and Rick Lee of Skeleton Key. The band released one self-titled album in 1996 on the now defunct Grand Royal record label.[9]

Thumbsucker (2005) was his feature-film directorial debut, for which he also created the film posters. In 2007, Mills filmed the feature-length documentary Does Your Soul Have A Cold?, which explored the issues around the introduction of anti-depressants to Japanese culture. The film premiered at SXSW Festival and was part of IFC's documentary film series.[10] He followed this up with Beginners in 2010.[11][12]

His next feature film was 20th Century Women, starring Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning and Billy Crudup.[13][14][15] The film had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, and was released on December 28, 2016, by A24.[16][17]

He has released some of his art/documentary photography works with the two books, Gas Book 11 (2003) and Humans (2006). In 2009, the Berlin-based culture magazine 032c devoted an issue to Mills. For the occasion Mills was interviewed by Nick Currie, best known for his work as Momus, in a piece called "Getting Through the New Depression".[18]

In 2019, he directed the short film I Am Easy to Find starring Alicia Vikander, which accompanied the album of the same name by The National.[19]

Mills' latest directorial feature film starring Joaquin Phoenix, titled C'mon C'mon, had its world premiere on 2 September 2021 at Telluride Film Festival.[20][21]


Personal life


Mills' mother died of brain cancer in 1999. Six months after she died, his father Paul came out as gay at the age of 75 and after 45 years of marriage. Five years later, his father died of cancer.[6]

Mills is married to fellow artist and film director Miranda July,[22] with whom he has a child, born in February 2012.[23][24]


Awards and nominations


Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref
2001Santa Fe Film FestivalBest DocumentaryPaperboysWon
2005Sundance Film FestivalGrand Jury PrizeThumbsuckerNominated
2005Berlin International Film FestivalGolden BearNominated
2006Independent Spirit AwardsBest First FeatureNominated
2011SXSW Film FestivalAudience AwardsBeginnersNominated
2011Independent Spirit AwardsBest DirectorNominated
Best ScreenplayNominated
2011Gotham AwardsBest FeatureWon
2011Alliance of Women Film JournalistsBest Original ScreenplayNominated
2011Detroit Film Critics SocietyBest Original ScreenplayNominated
2011Kansas City Film Critics Circle AwardsBest Original ScreenplayWon
2011Phoenix Film Critics Society AwardsBest Original ScreenplayNominated
2011San Diego Film Critics SocietyBest Original ScreenplayNominated
2011Utah Film Critics Association AwardsBest Original ScreenplayNominated
2016Academy AwardsBest Original Screenplay20th Century WomenNominated
2016Independent Spirit AwardBest ScreenplayNominated
2016Alliance of Women Film JournalistsBest Original ScreenplayNominated
2016Austin Film Critics AssociationBest Original ScreenplayNominated
2016Florida Film Critics CircleBest ScreenplayNominated
2016Dorian AwardsScreenplay of the YearNominated
2016Hawaii Film Critics SocietyBest Original ScreenplayNominated
2016North Carolina Film Critics AssociationBest Original ScreenplayNominated
2021 SCAD Savannah Film Festival Auteur AwardWon [25]

Filmography



Films


Year Title Distribution
2005ThumbsuckerSony Pictures Classics
2010BeginnersFocus Features
201620th Century WomenA24
2021C'mon C'mon

Documentary film


Short films


Year Title Notes
1995An Introduction to Harmolodicsshort
1995Skating with Dave and Jaredshort
1998Hair Shoes Love and Honestyshort
1999The Architecture of ReassuranceShort film
2000Not How Or When Or Why But YesShort film
2000DeformerShort film
2001PaperboysDocumentary short
2019I Am Easy to Findshort

Music videos


Year Title Artist(s)
1995"Men in Black"Frank Black
1996"2 Kindsa Love"Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
1997"Le soleil est près de moi"Air
"Hey Hey You Say"Papas Fritas
"Spokes"Pond
1998"Afrodiziak"Bran Van 3000
"All I Need"Air
"Kelly Watch the Stars"Air
"Sexy Boy"Air
"Party Hard"Pulp
"Legacy"Mansun
1999"Temperamental"Everything but the Girl
"Sometimes"Les Rhythmes Digitales
"Run On"Moby
"1, 2, 3, 4"Titán
2001"Bad Ambassador"The Divine Comedy
"It's Automatic"Zoot Woman
2002"Concrete Sky"Beth Orton
2003"Stardust"Martin Gore
"Walking on Thin Ice"Yoko Ono
2007"The Dress"Blonde Redhead
"My Impure Hair"Blonde Redhead
"Silently"Blonde Redhead
"Top Ranking"Blonde Redhead
2019"Light Years"The National
"Hairpin Turns"The National
"Hey Rosey"The National

Other works



Record sleeves



Commercials



Bibliography



References


  1. Who's Who in the West, 1982-1983. Marquis Who's Who. May 17, 1982. ISBN 9780837909189 – via Google Books.
  2. Del Barco, Mandalit (November 19, 2021). "Mike Mills' 'C'mon C'mon' feels like a shared memory". NPR. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  3. Bradshaw, James (September 10, 2011). "Beginners: A late dash out of the closet". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on September 18, 2010. Retrieved September 13, 2011.
  4. "Thomas Reynolds Gallery - San Francisco". www.thomasreynolds.com.
  5. "Mike Mills' tribute to women who made him a man". Jewish Journal. December 21, 2016.
  6. Mills, Mike (May 3, 2011). "Beginners: Director's Statement". Focus Features. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
  7. Apfelbaum, Sue (June 10, 2011). "The Designer as Filmmaker: An Interview with Mike Mills". Aiga.org. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  8. "Mike Mills, Graphic Artist". Focus Features. May 26, 2011. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  9. Hillis, Aaron (July 30, 2010). "Interview: Mike Mills on Beautiful Losers". IFC. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  10. "Mike Mills". mikemillsmikemills.com. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
  11. Olsen, Mark (September 5, 2010). "'Beginners' has a piece of Mike Mills' soul". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
  12. Lavallée, Eric (September 12, 2010). "TIFF 2010 Day 3: Mike Mills' Beginners". IONCINEMA.com. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  13. Sneider, Jeff (January 16, 2015). "Megan Ellison's Annapurna to Produce Mike Mills' '20th Century Women'". thewrap.com. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  14. McNary, Dave (May 14, 2015). "Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning Join '20th Century Women'". variety.com. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  15. Fleming, Mike Jr. (August 3, 2015). "Billy Crudup Lands Lead In '20th Century Women'". deadline.com. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  16. Society, Film (July 27, 2016). "Mike Mills's 20th Century Women is NYFF54 Centerpiece". New York Film Festival. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  17. "Director Mike Mills' New Film Is '20th Century Women'". NPR. December 19, 2016. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  18. Currie, Nick, Getting Through the New Depression. 032c issue #17 (Summer, 2009). Archived May 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  19. Sodomsky, Sam. "The National Break Down Every Song on Their New Album, I Am Easy to Find". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  20. "'C'mon C'mon': Joaquin Phoenix Shines & Empathy Flows In Mike Mills' Sublime, Micro-Traumatic Family Drama [Telluride Review]". theplaylist.net. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  21. Hammond, Pete (September 1, 2021). "Telluride Film Festival: Will Smith's 'King Richard', Peter Dinklage Musical 'Cyrano', Joaquin Phoenix In 'C'mon C'mon', Ken Branagh's 'Belfast' Set To Premiere". Deadline. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  22. "Miranda July Makes Art That Requires People". June 2, 2010.
  23. "Judd Apatow vs. Miranda July". Huck Magazine. January 5, 2013. Archived from the original on June 10, 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  24. Hiebert, Paul (June 2, 2010). "Miranda July Makes Art That Requires People". Flavorwire. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
  25. "2021 Honored Guests". SCAD Savannah Film Festival. Retrieved October 8, 2021.



На других языках

[de] Mike Mills (Regisseur)

Michael „Mike“ Mills (* 20. März 1966 in Berkeley, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Musikvideo- und Filmregisseur und Grafikdesigner.
- [en] Mike Mills (director)

[ru] Миллс, Майк (режиссёр)

Майкл Чедборн «Майк» Миллс (англ. Michael Chadbourne «Mike» Mills; род. 20 марта 1966 (1966-03-20)[1], Беркли, Калифорния, США) — американский кинорежиссёр, сценарист, клипмейкер и графический дизайнер. Наиболее известен как создатель фильмов «Дурная привычка» и «Начинающие».


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