Michael Phillips (born June 29, 1943) is a film producer.

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Michael Phillips at the Internet Movie Database