Name Michael Phillips Role Film producer | Children Kate Phillips | |
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Awards Academy Award for Best Picture, AACTA Award for Best Production Design, PGA Hall of Fame - Motion Pictures Movies Taxi Driver, The Sting, Close Encounters of the Thir, The Last Mimzy, The Flamingo Kid Similar People Julia Phillips, Tony Bill, David S Ward, Tom Rolf, Michael Chapman | ||
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Michael Phillips (born June 29, 1943) is an American film producer.
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- Road to cinema 4 michael phillips producer the sting taxi driver close encounters
- Producer michael phillips on making taxi driver
- Early life and education
- Film career
- Select filmography
- References
Producer michael phillips on making taxi driver
Early life and education
Phillips was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island. His mother was a schoolteacher and housewife; his father was a garment manufacturer. Phillips received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. In 1968, he went to work as a securities analyst on Wall Street but in 1971, he and his wife moved to California where they produced their first film, Steelyard Blues starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
Film career
In 1972, Phillips along with his wife, Julia Phillips, and producer Tony Bill financed the development of the screenplay, The Sting for $3,500 in total. In 1973, the film received the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Phillipses 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.
Phillips's early work in a producing team with his wife continues to receive acclaim within the industry. 25 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. In June 2007, Taxi Driver was ranked as the 52nd-best American feature film of all time by the American Film Institute. In December 2007, Close Encounters was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.