Todd Phillips

American screenwriter and film director Todd Phillips made his first 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 the featurelength documentary Hated GG Allin and the Murder Junkies He is best known for directing the comedy films Road Trip Old School The Hangover and Due Date Phillips directed and produced the highest grossing RRated Comedy of all time The Hangover 2009 Its worldwide gross currently stands at 480 million dollars The film won the Golden Globe for Best Picture as well as Best Comedy at the 2009 Broadcast Film Critics Awards