Name Miguel Arteta | Role Director | |
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Born 1965 (age 49–50) San Juan, Puerto Rico Occupation Film and television director Education Harvard University, Wesleyan University Awards Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award Nominations Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature Movies Alexander and the Terrible, Youth in Revolt, The Good Girl, Cedar Rapids, Chuck & Buck Similar People Ed Oxenbould, Dylan Minnette, Kerris Dorsey, Judith Viorst, Mike White | ||
Miguel Arteta, Salma Hayek, John Lithgow and Connie Britton Speak On The Movie "Beatriz At Dinner"
Miguel Arteta (born 1965) is a Puerto Rican director of film and television, known for his independent film Chuck & Buck (2000), for which he received the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award, and for the films The Good Girl (2002) and Cedar Rapids (2011).
Contents
- Miguel Arteta Salma Hayek John Lithgow and Connie Britton Speak On The Movie Beatriz At Dinner
- Early life
- Career
- References
Early life
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to a Peruvian father and Spanish mother, Arteta grew up all over Latin America due to his father's job as a Chrysler auto parts salesman. He went to high school in Costa Rica but was expelled, and went to live with his sister in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating from The Cambridge School of Weston in Massachusetts. He then attended Harvard University's documentary program where he learned filmmaking. He eventually left for Wesleyan University, where he met future collaborators Matthew Greenfield and Mike White.
After graduating in 1989, his student film Every Day is a Beautiful Day won a Student Academy Award, which got him a job as a second assistant camera to Jonathan Demme on the documentary Cousin Bobby. Demme then recommended him to the American Film Institute, and Arteta received his MFA there in 1993.
Career
Arteta's first film, Star Maps, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. It was a critical hit, receiving five Independent Spirit Award nominations, including Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay. He then turned to directing television shows, helming episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street, Freaks and Geeks, and Six Feet Under. He has also since directed episodes of The Office, Ugly Betty, and American Horror Story.
Arteta won a 2001 Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature Under $500,000 for Chuck & Buck, which teamed him with his fellow Wesleyan alumni Greenfield (film producer) and White (screenwriter and star). The trio worked together once more on 2002's The Good Girl, starring Jennifer Aniston.
Arteta's Youth in Revolt, a comedy starring Michael Cera, was released in 2010. Arteta's Cedar Rapids, starring Ed Helms and produced by Alexander Payne, was released in 2011.
Most recently he reunited with White and directed four episodes of White's HBO series Enlightened.