Mike Mills

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Mike Mills

Directing 60 March 20, 1966

Berkeley, California, USA

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 (20…

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Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

6.5 2009 Movie
20th Century Women

20th Century Women

7.3 2016 Movie
Beginners

Beginners

6.8 2011 Movie
Sentimental Value

Sentimental Value

7.5 2025 Movie
C'mon C'mon

C'mon C'mon

7.2 2021 Movie
Thumbsucker

Thumbsucker

6.2 2005 Movie
Fight for Your Right Revisited

Fight for Your Right Revisited

6.5 2011 Movie
I Am Easy to Find

I Am Easy to Find

7.1 2019 Movie
Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Losers

6.5 2008 Movie
Paperboys

Paperboys

6.5 2001 Movie
Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing

Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing

5.9 1999 Movie
Cinema16: American Short Films

Cinema16: American Short Films

7.5 2006 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Sentimental Value

    Movie Thanks

  2. 2021
    C'mon C'mon

    Movie Writer

  3. 2019
    The National: I Am Easy to Find, Live from New York's Beacon Theatre

    Movie Self

  4. 2019
    I Am Easy to Find

    Movie Writer

  5. 2016
    20th Century Women

    Movie Director

  6. 2014
    A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought Alone

    Movie Director

  7. 2011
    Beginners

    Movie Director

  8. 2011
    Fight for Your Right Revisited

    Movie Sir Stewart Wallace

  9. 2011
    A Short Film About Making Beginners

    Movie

  10. 2009
    Where the Wild Things Are

    Movie Thanks

  11. 2009
    The Magnificent Tati

    Movie Self

  12. 2009
    Family Portrait

    Movie

  13. 2009
    The Boy and the Creature, 1981

    Movie Director

  14. 2008
    Beautiful Losers

    Movie Self

  15. 2007
    Does Your Soul Have a Cold?

    Movie Director

  16. 2007
    Creative Life Store

    Movie

More credits
  1. 2006
    Cinema16: American Short Films

    Movie Director

  2. 2005
    Thumbsucker

    Movie Director

  3. 2003
    R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)

    Movie

  4. 2002
    Pulp Hits

    Movie Director

  5. 2001
    Paperboys

    Movie Director

  6. 2000
    Deformer

    Movie Director

  7. 2000
    Not How, Or When, Or Why, But Yes

    Movie Self - Interviewer

  8. 1999
    Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing

    Movie Self

  9. 1999
    The Architecture of Reassurance

    Movie Director

  10. 1998
    Richard June's Backyard

    Movie Director

  11. 1998
    Hair Shoes Love and Honesty

    Movie Director

  12. 1995
    Skating with Dave and Jared

    Movie Director

  13. 1995
    An Introduction to Harmolodics

    Movie Director

  14. —
    Untitled Mike Mills Film

    Movie Director