Todd Phillips is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for writing and directing the comedy films Road Trip (2000), Old School (2003), Starsky & Hutch (2004), The Hangover Trilogy (2009, 2011, and 2013) and Due Date (2010). For his work on the satirical comedy film Borat (2006), Phillips was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Phillips also expanded into other genre work directing biographical crime film War Dogs (2016) and the psychological thriller film Joker (2019), the latter of which received the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival
