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- Birth nameMichael S. Phillips
- Michael Phillips has been producing films and television in Hollywood since 1971. His films have garnered 23 Academy Award nominations, winning him a best picture Oscar for The Sting, a Palme d'Or Prize for Taxi Driver, and Italy's David di Donatello award for best picture for Clsoe Encounters of the Third Kind.
Phillips graduated from Dartmouth college with an A.B. in History in 1965 and from NYU Law School with a Juris Doctor degree in 1968. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1969. He serves as a Trustee Professor at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film & Media Arts, and has taught classes there on Cinema of the '70s, Science Fiction in cinema, and on the films of Akira Kurosawa.
- IMDb mini biography by: Lighthouse
- SpousesJuliana Maio(1987 - present)Julia Phillips(July 31, 1966 - 1974) (divorced, 1 child)Liv Faret (divorced, 1 child)
- He and then-wife Julia Phillips were the only married couple to win Oscars the same year. They were also the first one to win in the same category.
- His dream project in the 1980s was to film Isaac Asimov's "The Foundation" trilogy of novels, which he planned to do back-to-back, a forerunner of the approach later applied to "Lord of the Rings"; "The Foundation" project may yet be realized (by others) 25 years after his attempt.
- Has production company with Juliana Maio, 'Lighthouse Productions'.
- He has produced three films have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Sting (1973), Taxi Driver (1976) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
- Steelyard Blues (1973) - $100,000
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