Michael Phillips is a prominent Canadian psychiatrist known for his work in mental illness and suicide prevention. He resides in Beijing, China.

Michael Phillips is a film critic for the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Previously he was the drama critic of the Tribune; the Los Angeles Times; the St. Paul Pioneer Press; the San Diego Union-Tribune; and the Dallas Times Herald. Since late 2006 he has made several guest appearances on At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, filling in for Roger Ebert while he was on medical leave.

Michael Phillips (born 1938) is one of the people who created MasterCard in 1966. He is a published author and a founder of the Briarpatch Network.

Michael Phillips (born June 17, 1960) is a scholar of Texas race relations and the author of White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001 which chronicles white domination of Dallas, Texas, during the first 150 years of its history.

Michael Phillips is a former researcher at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D in 2002. He began teaching at Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas in 2007. He was formerly a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Phillips grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. After an award-winning career as a reporter and columnist for the University of Texas at Arlington student newspaper, The Shorthorn, Phillips received a journalism degree in 1983. From 1984 to 1990, he wrote for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, starting at its Arlington affiliate, The Arlington Citizen-Journal. Phillips graduated with a Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. His dissertation, The Fire This Time: The Battle Over Racial, Regional and Religious Identities in Dallas, Texas, 1860-1990, won the University of Texas’ Outstanding Dissertation Award. Phillips’ first book, White Metropolis, published by the University of Texas Press in January 2006, represents an update of his dissertation. White Metropolis won the Texas Historical Commission's 2007 T.R. Fehrenbach Award for best book on Texas history.

Deeply influenced by his University of Texas mentor Neil Foley, author of The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, Phillips argues that in the mid-19th century Dallas leaders attempted to conceal class conflict within the infant city by convincing lower class whites that the only important social division was the line drawn between African Americans and Anglos. Phillips writes that after the Civil War, following waves of immigration to Dallas that included Jews, Mexicans and other cultural minorities, elites redefined white racial identity. Whiteness became contingent upon not just European ancestry, but conformity to a number of political beliefs, including acceptance of elite rule, as well as belief in free market capitalism and in black inferiority. As Phillips suggests, in Dallas “whiteness was most clearly defined by what it was not: it was not black, communal, or socialist.” Those accepted as white were rewarded with higher incomes, life in better neighborhoods, increased health, and access to superior schools. Phillips suggests, however, that whiteness gained can become whiteness lost. The fear of racial demotion has kept the poor and struggling in Dallas loyal to a political system that primarily serves elite interests.

Phillips’ book has received a number of positive reviews, including from the Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, the Journal of Southern Religion, the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Legacies and the East Texas Historical Journal. Phillips is currently completing an oral history project on Texas House speakers at the Center for American History in Austin. Phillips and Dr. Patrick Cox, author of Ralph Yarborough: The People’s Senator, are finishing a book based on the project which will be published by the University of Texas Press in 2008.

Michael Phillips (born June 29, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning producer.

Micheal Phillips, his then-wife Julia Phillips, and Tony Bill received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing The Sting in 1973. The Phillips's were the first husband-and-wife team to win the Best Picture award. The couple then produced Taxi Driver, director Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed Palme d'Or-winning urban thriller, as well as writer-director Steven Spielberg's critically and financially successful science fiction film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the latter produced with Clark Paylow). Phillips early work in a producing team with his wife continues to receive acclaim within the industry. Twenty-five years after its Oscar success, "The Sting" was inducted into the Producers Guild of America's Hall of Fame, granting each of its producers a Golden Laurel Award.Guild_of_America_Awards_1997" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producers_Guild_of_America_Awards_1997 In June 2007, "Taxi Driver" was ranked as the 52nd best American feature film of all time by the _American Film Institute.blank">http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/100Movies.pdf?docID=281

Like his contemporary _Peter Bogdanovich following the professional parting of ways with an ex-wife, however, Phillips has never again earned the critical acclaim or box office success of his New Hollywood heyday. The frequency of Phillips' work as a producer has also fallen off dramatically, with only three non-executive feature film producing credits earned in the last twenty years.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680635/#producer He currently heads Lighthouse Productions.

Has production company with Juliana Maio, 'Lighthouse Productions'.

He and his wife Julia Phillips (I) were the only married couple to win Oscars the same year. They were also the first one to win in the same category.