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Todd Phillips (born Todd Philip Bunzl; December 19, 1970) is an American filmmaker. Phillips began his career in 1993 and directed films in the 2000s such as Road Trip, Old School, Starsky & Hutch, and School for Scoundrels. He came to wider prominence in the early 2010s for directing The Hangover film series. In 2019, he co-wrote and directed the psychological thriller film Joker, based on the DC Comics character of the same name, which premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival where it received the top prize, the Golden Lion. Joker went on to earn Phillips three Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, with his co-writer Scott Silver, his second, third, and fourth Academy Award nominations after also being nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Borat at the 79th Academy Awards.
Eric Draven and his fiancee are brutally murdered on Devil's Night, the night before Halloween. A year later, Eric returns from the underworld guided by a crow. Initially with no memories of what happened, he returns to his old loft where he recalls the memories and pain of death. Eric paints the features of a happy, distorted clown on his face and sets off on a hunt to get revenge on his killers. The bandits are killed one by one, until Eric, with the help of Sergeant Albrecht, meets the biggest criminal in town, Top Dollar and his sister, who has managed to catch the crow in the meantime. She discovered that the crow's (bird) suffering would be transposed to Eric, thus putting his immortality in jeopardy.
