Todd Phillips

Todd Phillips born Todd Philip Bunzl December 19 1970 is an American filmmaker Phillips began his career in 1993 and directed films in the 2000s such as Road Trip Old School Starsky Hutch and School for Scoundrels He came to wider prominence in the early 2010s for directing The Hangover film series In 2019 he cowrote and directed the psychological thriller film Joker based on the DC Comics character of the same name which premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival where it received the top prize the Golden Lion Joker went on to earn Phillips three Academy Award nominations for Best Picture Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay with his cowriter Scott Silver his second third and fourth Academy Award nominations after also being nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Borat at the 79th Academy Awards