Michael Phillips (film producer)
Michael Phillips (born June 29, 1943 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American film producer.
Film career
Michael Phillips attended New York University Law School and initially worked as a broker on Wall Street. He and his wife Julia Phillips were hired by Tony Bill to work as film producers. After his debut as a film producer in 1973 with crooks going astray , he produced the crook comedy The Clou with Tony Bill and his wife in the same year . For this film he won the Oscar for Best Picture . He and his wife were the first (and so far only) married couple to win the Oscar for best film together. Together they also produced Taxi Driver (1976) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). With the latter two, the couple, whose marriage existed from 1966 to 1974, had already been divorced.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind were to be Phillips' final hit. He founded the production company Mercury Entertainment in 1984. His former works Herzquietschen (1981) and Flamingo Kid (1987) played their editions again. But after the financial disaster with the large-scale Fast Food Family (1991), Mercury Entertainment had to file for bankruptcy. Warner Bros. released the film Mom and Dad Save the World (1992) from the bankruptcy estate .
With Der Clou , he and his wife made it into the Hall of Fame of the Producers Guild of America 25 years later and both received a Golden Laurel Award .
Filmography
- 1973: Crooks on the wrong track (Steelyard Blues)
- 1973: The Sting (The Sting)
- 1976: Taxi Driver
- 1976: The Hair-raising Journey in a Crazy Bus (The Big Bus)
- 1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Close Encounters of the Third Child)
- 1981: Heart squeak (Heartbeeps)
- 1982: Cannery (Canary Row)
- 1984: Flamingo Kid (The Flamingo Kid)
- 1991: Fast Food Family (Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead)
- 1991: Eyes of an Angel
- 1992: Mom and Dad Save the World
- 1994: Future Lover (TV movie)
- 1997: Mimic - attack of the killer insects (mimic)
- 2001: Impostor
- 2007: Mimzy - My Friend from the Future (The Last Mimzy)
Web links
- Michael Phillips (film producer) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steven Priggé: Movie Moguls Speak: Interviews with Top Film Producers . McFarland, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7864-1929-6 , pp. 103 .
- ^ Alan Citron: Hard Times for 'Sting' Producer: Phillips Wants to Take His Ailing Production Company Private. Los Angeles Times , January 17, 1992, accessed January 29, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Phillips, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City |