Mike Mills
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Michael Chadbourne Mills (born March 20, 1966) is an American film and music video producer, writer, and graphic designer.
Thumbsucker, Beginners, and 20th Century Women are three of his best-known films.
Mills was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the second time.
Early life and education
Michael Chadbourne Mills was born in Berkeley, California, the son of Janet L. Dowd, a draftsperson, and Paul Chadbourne Mills, an art historian and museum curator.
He graduated from Cooper Union in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Personal life
In 1999, Mills' mother died of brain cancer. Paul, his father, came out as gay at the age of 75 and after 45 years of marriage. His father died of cancer five years ago.
Mills is married to fellow artist and film director Miranda July, with whom he has a child, born in February 2012.
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.
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.
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.
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. He followed this up with Beginners in 2010.
His next feature film was 20th Century Women, starring Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning and Billy Crudup. The film had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, and was released on December 28, 2016, by A24.
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".
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.
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.