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Bennett Miller

Bennett Miller is a two-time Academy Award-nominated director working with SMUGGLER, known for meticulous character-driven storytelling across narrative features, commercials, and documentary work.

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SMUGGLER
Production company · Global · verified Jul 2026
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Recent press & creds
Academy Award Nomination for Best Director - Foxcatcher
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · 2015 · award
Independent Spirit Award Special Distinction
Film Independent Spirit Awards · 2015 · award
Academy Award Nomination for Best Director - Capote
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · 2006 · award
Selected clients
American ExpressMastercardQuilted Northern

Bio & background

Bennett Miller is a two-time Academy Award-nominated director working with SMUGGLER, known for meticulous character-driven storytelling across narrative features, commercials, and documentary work. His narrative films—Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014)—earned 16 total Oscar nominations and a Best Director prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, with six actors receiving Academy Award nominations under his direction, including Philip Seymour Hoffman's Best Actor win for Capote. Miller's commercial portfolio spans iconic brand campaigns for Mastercard's "Priceless" series and American Express, alongside award-winning work for Quilted Northern (via Droga5), De'Longhi, and AT&T. His observational documentary The Cruise (1998) pioneered digital-video theatrical distribution. Miller has also directed music videos for Bob Dylan ("When the Deal Goes Down" starring Scarlett Johansson) and Scarlett Johansson ("Falling Down" featuring Salman Rushdie). His austere visual style—influenced by Kubrick, Bresson, and the Maysles brothers—emphasizes psychological depth and restrained observation. Since 2023, Miller has exhibited AI-generated photographic art at Gagosian galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, exploring philosophical questions about perception, authorship, and reality through early access to OpenAI's DALL·E. working with CAA, Miller continues to bridge technological innovation with artistic inquiry across multiple mediums.

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Awards
  • Academy Award Nomination for Best Director - Foxcatcher
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · 2015
  • Independent Spirit Award Special Distinction
    Film Independent Spirit Awards · 2015
  • Academy Award Nomination for Best Director - Capote
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · 2006
Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director - Capote
Gotham Awards · 2005
  • New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Film - Capote
    New York Film Critics Circle · 2005
  • San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Director - Capote
    San Diego Film Critics Society · 2005
  • Audience Award and Special Jury Award for The Cruise
    Newport International Film Festival · 1998
  • Best Director (Prix de la mise en scène) - Foxcatcher
    Cannes Film Festival · 2014
  • Chicago Film Critics Association Most Promising Filmmaker - Capote
    Chicago Film Critics Association · 2005
  • Press
    • Smuggler Roster Bio - Exacting Authorship and Verisimilitude
      SMUGGLER · 2025
    • Wikipedia Profile - Two-Time Oscar-Nominated Director
      Wikipedia · 2025
    • EBSCO Research Starters Biography
      EBSCO · 2025
    • Our Choices Art Interview on Cinema and AI Art
      Our Choices Art · 2025
    • Gagosian Gallery Exhibitions in NY, LA, and Paris
      Gagosian · 2023
    • BFI Article on The Cruise and DV Revolution
      British Film Institute