All three of Miller's feature films have received Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Best Screenplay (Original for Foxcatcher and Capote, Adapted for Moneyball) and either Supporting Actor or Supporting Actress.
Is a huge fan of chess, and wants to make a chess movie in the future.
Along with Paul Thomas Anderson; he is the only director to direct the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman more then once.
All of his films (as of 2018) have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with the exception of Foxcatcher (2014). However, he was nominated for directing the film.
Graduated Mamaroneck High School, 1985. Classmate of Dan Futterman.
Friends with author Sarah Vowell and is mentioned
numerous times in her book 'Assasination Vacation'.