Todd Phillips, born December 20, 1970, is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and a film director.
Born in New York, Todd Phillips attended New York University Film School, but dropped out in order to focus on completing his first film, the feature-length documentary Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, about the life and death of punk rocker GG Allin. Phillips made the film while a junior at NYU and it went on to become one of the biggest...
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Todd Phillips, born December 20, 1970, is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and a film director.
Born in New York, Todd Phillips attended New York University Film School, but dropped out in order to focus on completing his first film, the feature-length documentary Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, about the life and death of punk rocker GG Allin. Phillips made the film while a junior at NYU and it went on to become one of the biggest grossing student films at the time, even getting a limited theatrical release.
Around this time, Phillips worked on St. Mark's Place at an all-night video store that specialized in explicit material and hard to find films.
Phillips also appeared as one of the drivers in the first seasons of Taxicab Confessions on HBO.
His first film was the feature-length documentary Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies, about the life and death of punk rocker GG Allin. Phillips made the film while a junior at NYU and it went on to become one of the biggest...
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