Lloyd Phillips (14 December 1949 in
Cape Town
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– 25 January 2013 in
Los Angeles
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) was a South African-born New Zealand
film producer
A film producer is a person who oversees film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting the script, coordinating writing, di ...
. In 1980, he produced the movie ''
The Dollar Bottom
''The Dollar Bottom'' is a 1981 British short film directed by Roger Christian. It won an Oscar at the 53rd Academy Awards
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''. The film received an
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
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From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, "Best Short Subject, One- ...
in 1981, making Phillips the first New Zealander to win an
Academy Award
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in any category.
Phillips was an
executive producer
Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights ...
on films such as ''
Inglourious Basterds
''Inglourious Basterds'' is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an al ...
'',
''The Tourist'', and
''Man of Steel''.
[ His commercially most successful films had been ''Man of Steel'' which grossed US$649 million, ''Inglourious Basterds'' which grossed US$321 million and ''The Tourist'' which grossed US$278 million worldwide. Phillips died of a heart attack on 25 January 2013 in ]Malibu, California
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, at the age of 63.Beau St. Clair
Beau Marie St. Clair ( – January 9, 2016) was an American film producer. In 1996, St. Clair, together with her friend and producing partner, actor Pierce Brosnan, established Irish DreamTime, a production company whose credits include '' The Th ...
, died on January 9, 2016.[
]
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1940s births
2013 deaths
Producers who won the Live Action Short Film Academy Award
New Zealand film producers
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