Todd Phillips is an American director born in Brooklyn, New York, celebrated for moving between raucous studio comedy and unexpectedly dark psychological drama. The Hangover trilogy, following a group of friends navigating chaotic misadventures after a Las Vegas bachelor party, established him as one of the most commercially successful comedy directors of his generation. Due Date and War Dogs extended his interest in mismatched-pair comic dynamics and morally murky true-crime material. Joker, an unexpectedly bleak character study following a struggling comedian's descent into violence and delusion, marked a dramatic tonal departure that won Joaquin Phoenix an Academy Award and became one of the highest-grossing R-rated films in history. Phillips's surprising range from broad studio comedy to psychologically dark character drama has made him one of the more commercially significant directors of his generation. Read more