Philip Anderson Lord (born July 12, 1975) and Christopher Robert
Miller (born September 23, 1975) are an American filmmaking duo.
Having met at Dartmouth College, they are best known for directing and
writing the animated films Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
and The Lego Movie (2014), as well as directing the live-action comedy
film 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel, 22 Jump Street (2014). Lord
and Miller also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature as
producers of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), which was
co-written by Lord, and co-produced the television series The Last Man
on Earth (2015â€"2018) for Fox and Unikitty! for Cartoon
Network.According to The New York Times, Lord is from Miami; his
mother is a Cuban-born psychologist, and his father retired from the
aviation business and before that directed a dance company, Fusion,
for 10 years. Miller is from the Seattle area, where his father runs a
lumber mill.Lord and Miller both grew up making short films with an
affinity for animation. On campus, the two had separate columns in the
school newspaper, The Dartmouth. Lord was a member of Amarna, a co-ed
undergraduate society while Miller was a brother at Alpha Chi Alpha.
During his time in college, Christopher met his girlfriend, now wife.
Miller (born September 23, 1975) are an American filmmaking duo.
Having met at Dartmouth College, they are best known for directing and
writing the animated films Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
and The Lego Movie (2014), as well as directing the live-action comedy
film 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel, 22 Jump Street (2014). Lord
and Miller also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature as
producers of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), which was
co-written by Lord, and co-produced the television series The Last Man
on Earth (2015â€"2018) for Fox and Unikitty! for Cartoon
Network.According to The New York Times, Lord is from Miami; his
mother is a Cuban-born psychologist, and his father retired from the
aviation business and before that directed a dance company, Fusion,
for 10 years. Miller is from the Seattle area, where his father runs a
lumber mill.Lord and Miller both grew up making short films with an
affinity for animation. On campus, the two had separate columns in the
school newspaper, The Dartmouth. Lord was a member of Amarna, a co-ed
undergraduate society while Miller was a brother at Alpha Chi Alpha.
During his time in college, Christopher met his girlfriend, now wife.
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