PHILIP LORD (U.S., 1975) AND CHRISTOFER MILLER (U.S., 1975): AN AMERICAN FILMMAKING AND ACTING DUO

 

Philip Anderson Lord (born July 12, 1975) and Christopher Robert Miller (born September 23, 1975) are an American filmmaking and acting duo.

Their films are known for subversion of genre and detailed visual sensation, spanning various styles of live-action and animation. They are known for co-creating the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie, and the Spider-Verse film franchises: the latter has a post in my blog.

Lord and Miller were the co-creators, co-stars, and co-heads of the adult animated sitcom Clone High (2002–2003, 2023–2024), and were the writers and directors of the animated films Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and The Lego Movie (2014). They were the directors of the live-action comedy films 21 Jump Street (2012) and 22 Jump Street (2014), and the science fiction adventure film Project Hail Mary (2026).

For co-producing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), they won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and garnered the same nomination for co-producing the sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Lord and Miller have also worked on the television series The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018) for Fox, Unikitty! (2017–2020) for Cartoon Network, and The Afterparty (2022–2023) for Apple TV+.