Known For
Directing
Known Credits
11
Gender
Male
Birthday
March 20, 1966 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
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 (2010) and 20th Century Women (2016). For the latter, Mills was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Fight for Your Right Revisited
Beautiful Losers
Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing
The National: I Am Easy to Find, Live from New York's Beacon Theatre
R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
The Magnificent Tati
Family Portrait
Creative Life Store
A Short Film About Making Beginners
Not How, Or When, Or Why, But Yes
| 2025 | Sentimental Value...Thanks | |
| 2009 | Where the Wild Things Are...Thanks |
| 2021 | C'mon C'mon...Director | |
| 2019 | I Am Easy to Find...Director | |
| 2016 | 20th Century Women...Director | |
| 2014 | A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought Alone...Director | |
| 2011 | Beginners...Director | |
| 2009 | The Boy and the Creature, 1981...Director | |
| 2007 | Does Your Soul Have a Cold?...Director | |
| 2006 | Cinema16: American Short Films...Director | |
| 2005 | Thumbsucker...Director | |
| 2002 | Pulp Hits...Director | |
| 2001 | Paperboys...Director | |
| 2000 | Deformer...Director | |
| 2000 | Not How, Or When, Or Why, But Yes...Director | |
| 1999 | Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing...Director | |
| 1999 | The Architecture of Reassurance...Director | |
| 1998 | Richard June's Backyard...Director | |
| 1998 | Hair Shoes Love and Honesty...Director | |
| 1995 | Skating with Dave and Jared...Director | |
| 1995 | An Introduction to Harmolodics...Director | |
| Untitled Mike Mills Project...Director |
| 2021 | C'mon C'mon...Writer | |
| 2019 | I Am Easy to Find...Writer | |
| 2016 | 20th Century Women...Writer | |
| 2011 | Beginners...Writer | |
| 2005 | Thumbsucker...Screenplay | |
| 1999 | The Architecture of Reassurance...Writer |
| 2007 | Does Your Soul Have a Cold?...Producer |
| 2019 | The National: I Am Easy to Find, Live from New York's Beacon Theatreas Self | |
| 2011 | Fight for Your Right Revisitedas Sir Stewart Wallace | |
| 2011 | A Short Film About Making Beginnersas | |
| 2009 | The Magnificent Tatias Self | |
| 2009 | Family Portraitas | |
| 2008 | Beautiful Losersas Self | |
| 2007 | Creative Life Storeas | |
| 2006 | Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenesas Self | |
| 2003 | R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)as | |
| 2000 | Not How, Or When, Or Why, But Yesas Self - Interviewer | |
| 1999 | Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playingas Self |
