Michael Phillips (producer)
Michael Phillips ( born June 29, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American film producer.
Film career
Michael Phillips attended the New York University Law School and worked as a broker on Wall Street. He and his wife Julia Phillips were recruited by Tony Bill, to work as a film producer. After his debut as a film producer in 1973 with crooks gone astray, he produced in the same year along with Tony Bill and his wife, the crime caper The Sting. For this film he won the Oscar for Best Picture. He and his wife were the first ( and so far only ) couple who won the Oscar for best film together. Together they produced also Taxi Driver (1976) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). In the two latter, the couple whose marriage was from 1966 to 1974, was already divorced.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind to be the last hit of Phillips. He founded the production company Mercury Entertainment 1984. His former works heart squeak (1981) and The Flamingo Kid (1987 ) played their spending again. But after the financial disaster with the large-scale Fast Food Family (1991 ) was forced to declare bankruptcy Mercury Entertainment. Warner Bros. released from the bankrupt movie Mom and Dad Save the World ( 1992).
By The trick he and his wife managed it 25 years later in the Hall of Fame of the Producers Guild of America and thus got both a Golden Laurel Award.