
Person
Mike Mills
Directing · Born 1966-03-20 · Berkeley, California, USA
Biography
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.
Known for

Sentimental Value
Thanks

20th Century Women
Director

Where the Wild Things Are
Thanks

Beginners
Director

Thumbsucker
Director

C'mon C'mon
Writer

Paperboys
Director

Does Your Soul Have a Cold?
Director

Fight for Your Right Revisited
Sir Stewart Wallace

The Architecture of Reassurance
Director
Filmography
- 2025Sentimental ValueThanks
- 2021C'mon C'monWriter
- 2019The National: I Am Easy to Find, Live from New York's Beacon TheatreSelf
- 2019I Am Easy to FindDirector
- 201620th Century WomenDirector
- 2014A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought AloneDirector
- 2011BeginnersDirector
- 2011Fight for Your Right RevisitedSir Stewart Wallace
- 2011A Short Film About Making Beginners
- 2009Where the Wild Things AreThanks
- 2009The Magnificent TatiSelf
- 2009Family Portrait
- 2009The Boy and the Creature, 1981Director
- 2008Beautiful LosersSelf
- 2007Does Your Soul Have a Cold?Director
- 2007Creative Life Store
- 2006Cinema16: American Short FilmsDirector
- 2006Thumbsucker - Behind the ScenesSelf
- 2005ThumbsuckerDirector
- 2003R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
- 2002Pulp HitsDirector
- 2001PaperboysDirector
- 2000DeformerDirector
- 2000Not How, Or When, Or Why, But YesSelf - Interviewer
- 1999Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and PlayingSelf
- 1999The Architecture of ReassuranceDirector
- 1998Richard June's BackyardDirector
- 1998Hair Shoes Love and HonestyDirector
- 1995Skating with Dave and JaredDirector
- 1995An Introduction to HarmolodicsDirector
- —Untitled Mike Mills ProjectDirector
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