Michael Phillips (born June 29, 1943) is a film producer.
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Film career
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, as well as writer-director Steven Spielberg's 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.[2] In June 2007, Taxi Driver was ranked as the 52nd best American feature film of all time by the American Film Institute.[1]
Select filmography
- The Sting (1973)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- The Flamingo Kid (1984)
- The Last Mimzy (2007)
- "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead"(1991)
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