# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-benning
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:57:32.540Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-benning"
name: "James Benning"
slug: "james-benning"
description: "James Benning is an American independent filmmaker and educator. Over the course of his 40-year career Benning has made over twenty-five feature-length films that have shown in many different venues across the world. Since 1987, he has taught at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He is known as a minimalist filmmaker."
tagline: "American filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Benning_Viennale_2012_a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1942-12-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.24554
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072159/"
    handle:    "nm0072159"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%86%DA%AF_(%D9%81%D9%84%D9%85_%DA%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%B9%D8%B1)"
    title: "جیمز بیننگ (فلم ڈائریکٹر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "جيمس بنينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "جيمس بنينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Benning"
    title: "James Benning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Benning_(film_director)"
    title: "James Benning (film director)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Benning"
    title: "James Benning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Benning"
    title: "James Benning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Benning"
    title: "James Benning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1680032"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump