Michael Phillips (producer)
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Michael Phillips (born June 29, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning producer.
Michael Phillips, his then-wife Julia Phillips, and Tony Bill received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing The Sting in 1973. The Phillips's were the first husband-and-wife team to win the Best Picture award. The couple then produced Taxi Driver, director Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed Palme d'Or-winning urban thriller, as well as writer-director Steven Spielberg's critically and financially successful science fiction film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the latter produced with Clark Paylow). Phillips early work in a producing team with his wife continues to receive acclaim within the industry. Twenty-five years after its Oscar success, "The Sting" was inducted into the Producers Guild of America's Hall of Fame, granting each of its producers a Golden Laurel Award.[1] In June 2007, "Taxi Driver" was ranked as the 52nd best American feature film of all time by the American Film Institute.[2]
Like his contemporary Peter Bogdanovich following the professional parting of ways with an ex-wife, however, Phillips has never again earned the critical acclaim or box office success of his New Hollywood heyday. The frequency of Phillips' work as a producer has also fallen off dramatically, with only three non-executive feature film producing credits earned in the last twenty years.[3] He currently heads Lighthouse Productions.
[edit] Select filmography
- The Sting (1973)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- The Flamingo Kid (1984)
- The Last Mimzy (2007)
