Age, Biography and Wiki
Benh Zeitlin (Benjamin Harold Zeitlin) was born on 14 October, 1982 in New York City, New York, U.S., is an American filmmaker (born 1982). Discover Benh Zeitlin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 41 years old?
| Popular As |
Benjamin Harold Zeitlin |
| Occupation |
Filmmaker |
| Age |
41 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
| Born |
14 October, 1982 |
| Birthday |
14 October |
| Birthplace |
New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States
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Benh Zeitlin Height, Weight & Measurements
At 41 years old, Benh Zeitlin height not available right now. We will update Benh Zeitlin's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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| Hair Color |
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
| Family |
| Parents |
Not Available |
| Wife |
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| Sibling |
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Benh Zeitlin Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Benh Zeitlin worth at the age of 41 years old? Benh Zeitlin’s income source is mostly from being a successful Filmmaker. He is from United States. We have estimated Benh Zeitlin's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
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Not Available |
| Source of Income |
Filmmaker |
Benh Zeitlin Social Network
Timeline
Benjamin Harold Zeitlin (born October 14, 1982) is an American filmmaker, best known for writing and directing the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild, for which he received two Academy Award nominations.
Zeitlin was born in Manhattan and raised in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, and in suburban Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.
He is a graduate of Hastings High School and Wesleyan University.
He was born to writers and folklorists Mary Amanda Dargan and Steven Joel Zeitlin, who founded the NYC non-profit cultural organization City Lore.
His father, who is Jewish, spent most of his childhood in Brazil; whereas his mother comes from a rural, Protestant background in Darlington, South Carolina.
His younger sister is screenwriter and artist Eliza Zeitlin.
He has also received two nominations at the 85th Academy Awards: Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (shared with Lucy Alibar), and the film itself was nominated for Best Picture.
In 2004, Zeitlin co-founded the Court 13 independent collection of filmmakers, named after a neglected Wesleyan University squash court that he and his friends had once commandeered as a filming location.
His younger sister Eliza Zeitlin and he moved to New Orleans while he was making his first short film, Glory at Sea, in 2008.
In 2012, Zeitlin's first feature, Beasts of the Southern Wild, adapted from a play entitled Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar, won the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Deauville American Film Festival.
The film went on to earn the Los Angeles Film Festival's Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and the Seattle International Film Festival's Golden Space Needle Award for Best Director.
Zeitlin was also given a Humanitarian Award for his work on the film at the Satellite Awards 2012.
Notably, Zeitlin both directed Beasts of the Southern Wild and co-composed the score.
For his directorial work and screenplay in Beasts of the Southern Wild, Zeitlin collected several additional awards and nominations.
At the Gotham Independent Film Awards in 2012, he won the Breakthrough Director Award.
At the same awards ceremony, Zeitlin received the inaugural Bingham Ray Award, which honors the independent filmmaker who died in 2012.
Zeitlin also won a Humanitas Prize (as co-writer/director; shared with Alibar as co-writer), amongst other awards.
Zeitlin was the 2012 recipient of Smithsonian magazine's American Ingenuity Award in the Visual Arts category.
In 2019, it was revealed that Zeitlin was directing his next feature Wendy in Montserrat, an island south of Antigua.
Inspired by Peter Pan, Zeitlin described the film as 'a friendship-love story-adventure of her and a joyous, reckless, pleasure-mongering young boy as they swirl in and out of youth and as the ecosystem around them spirals toward destruction.'.
