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.
2025Sentimental ValueMovieThanks2021C'mon C'monMovieWriter · Director
2019The National: I Am Easy to Find, Live from New York's Beacon TheatreMovieas Self2019I Am Easy to FindMovieWriter · Director201620th Century WomenMovieDirector · Writer2014A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought AloneMovieDirector2011BeginnersMovieDirector · Writer
2011Fight for Your Right RevisitedMovieas Sir Stewart Wallace
2011A Short Film About Making BeginnersMovie2009Where the Wild Things AreMovieThanks
2009The Magnificent TatiMovieas Self2009The Boy and the Creature, 1981MovieDirector
2008Beautiful LosersMovieas Self2007Does Your Soul Have a Cold?MovieDirector · Producer
2007Creative Life StoreMovie2006Cinema16: American Short FilmsMovieDirector2005ThumbsuckerMovieDirector · Screenplay
2003R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)Movie
2002Pulp HitsMovieDirector2001PaperboysMovieDirector2000DeformerMovieDirector1999Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and PlayingMovieas Self · Director1999The Architecture of ReassuranceMovieDirector · Writer1995Skating with Dave and JaredMovieDirector