Phil Lord

Biography

Philip Anderson Lord (born July 12, 1975) is an American filmmaker with his filmmaking partner Christopher Miller. They are the creators and co-stars of the adult animated sitcom Clone High (2002–2003, 2023–2024) and the writers and directors of the animated films Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and The Lego Movie (2014), as well as the directors of the live-action comedy film 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel, 22 Jump Street (2014). Lord and Miller are best known for working on the film series Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie and Spider-Verse, which won them the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and a nomination for the aforementioned award for producing the sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). They have also worked on the television series The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018) for Fox, Unikitty! (2017–2020) for Cartoon Network, and most recently, The Afterparty (2022–2023) for Apple TV+. Description above from the Wikipedia article Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

• ★Academy Award — Best Animated Feature · 2019
• ☆Academy Award — Best Animated Feature · 2024 · nominated
• ☆Academy Award — Best Animated Feature · 2022 · nominated