---
name: "Phil Lord"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/phil-lord"
fi1m_id: "phil-lord"
imdb_id: "nm0520488"
tmdb_id: 107446
wikidata_id: "Q3378803"
roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"]
born: "12 July 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 15
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-23T04:14:51.095267+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Phil Lord

## Identity

Phil Lord

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/phil-lord
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** phil-lord
- **IMDb ID:** nm0520488
- **TMDB ID:** 107446
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3378803
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Lord, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3378803, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520488/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/107446

Writer and producer. Born 12 July 1975 in Miami, Florida, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 12 July 1975, Miami, Florida, USA
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 15: 4 directing, 4 writing, 7 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Christopher Miller](https://film.one/person/christopher-miller.md), [Avi Arad](https://film.one/person/avi-arad.md), [Elizabeth Banks](https://film.one/person/elizabeth-banks.md), [Hailee Steinfeld](https://film.one/person/hailee-steinfeld.md), [Jake Johnson](https://film.one/person/jake-johnson.md), [Shameik Moore](https://film.one/person/shameik-moore.md), [Will Arnett](https://film.one/person/will-arnett.md), [Amy Pascal](https://film.one/person/amy-pascal.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 2 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as writer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 74 (2), 2010s 74 (6), 2020s 72 (7)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 78 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 3, Adventure 3, Animation 3, Comedy 2, Science Fiction 2, Family 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,285m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Lord, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3378803, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520488/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/107446

## Coming up

- *Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse* (2027-06-17), Producer
- *Murder, She Wrote* (2028-02-03), Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse*](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md) (87), [*Brooklyn Nine-Nine*](https://film.one/tv/brooklyn-nine-nine.md) (78), [*The Mitchells vs. the Machines*](https://film.one/film/the-mitchells-vs-the-machines.md) (76)
- **Apple TV:** [*The Lego Movie*](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie.md) (83), [*Project Hail Mary*](https://film.one/film/project-hail-mary.md) (80)
- **Peacock:** [*Strays*](https://film.one/film/strays.md) (60), [*Cocaine Bear*](https://film.one/film/cocaine-bear.md) (60)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Lego Batman Movie*](https://film.one/film/the-lego-batman-movie.md) (74)
- **Disney+:** [*How I Met Your Mother*](https://film.one/tv/how-i-met-your-mother.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Phil Lord

> Phil Lord writes studio comedies that admit what they are and reward you for noticing: fast, dense, kind to ordinary people, and nearly always a quarter of an hour too long. The Spider-Verse scripts are his best work.

Somewhere in every film Phil Lord has written, the film stops and admits what it is. *The Lego Movie* (2014) turns out, late, to have been a boy's game on his father's table. *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018) tells the same origin story several times over and makes the repetition the joke. Ryland Grace in *Project Hail Mary* (2026) wakes up not knowing his name or that he is on a spaceship, and works it out at the same speed we do. Lord and his partner Christopher Miller like an audience that knows it is being played to, and they like to pay it back for paying attention.

They came up through television, co-creating *Clone High* (2002); their first feature was *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009), and *21 Jump Street* (2012) moved them into live action. *The Lego Movie* is where the manner set: a gag every forty seconds, a plot built out of borrowed pieces, and underneath it a plain affection for people who want to fit in. It is funny and generous and it wears you out, and that has been our note on nearly everything since. *The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part* (2019), with the script kept and Mike Mitchell directing, is the same trick a second time; we liked it less and reached for the pause button by the hour mark.

The Spider-Verse films are the best of the writing. With Rodney Rothman on the first, Lord found a way to be that fast and that dense without exhausting us, because the scenes between Miles and Peter B. Parker are allowed to be patient while everything around them is not. *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), written with Miller and David Callaham, is better looking and stranger, spends a good deal of its 140 minutes explaining rules, and is half a story. Lord has said that a writer's job is not to follow the canon but to make something new, and on this evidence he means it.

What is new is patience. *Project Hail Mary*, which he and Miller directed from Drew Goddard's script, turns the jokes down for a long stretch in which a man and a puppet work out how to say yes, no and eventually friend, and it moved us more than we expected, because the puppet has weight and Gosling flinches when it moves and so did we. It also runs 157 minutes and earns perhaps 120. The one steady complaint about Lord is length, and his departure from *Solo: A Star Wars Story* (2018), over a way of working that improvised more than a production that size could take, looks like the same instinct seen from the other side: keep adding. When he cuts, he is as good as anyone writing studio films. He does not cut often enough.

## Biography

Phil Lord is an American filmmaker, writer, director and producer. He frequently collaborates with Christopher Miller. Lord graduated from Dartmouth College in 1997.

With Miller, he created the animated series *Clone High* (2002–2003, 2023–2024). They wrote and directed the films *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009) and *The Lego Movie* (2014), and directed *21 Jump Street* (2012) and *22 Jump Street* (2014). They produced *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023).

Lord and Miller have produced *Strays* (2023) and *Cocaine Bear* (2023). They directed and produced *Project Hail Mary* (2026).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (15)

### Directed (4)

- *Project Hail Mary* (2026), Fi1m 80, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/project-hail-mary.md)
- *The Lego Movie* (2014), Fi1m 83, Story, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie.md)
- *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* (2013), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/brooklyn-nine-nine.md)
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009), Fi1m 75, as Additional Voices (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs.md)

### Wrote (4) — the average rests on these

- *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), Fi1m 82, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md)
- *The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part* (2019), Fi1m 63, Story, Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie-2-the-second-part.md)
- *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), Fi1m 87, Story, Screenplay, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md)
- *How I Met Your Mother* (2005), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/how-i-met-your-mother.md)

### Produced (7)

- *Spider-Noir* (2026), Fi1m 67, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md)
- *The Sheep Detectives* (2026), Fi1m 76, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-sheep-detectives.md)
- *Cocaine Bear* (2023), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/cocaine-bear.md)
- *Strays* (2023), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/strays.md)
- *The Mitchells vs. the Machines* (2021), Fi1m 76, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mitchells-vs-the-machines.md)
- *Solo: A Star Wars Story* (2018), Fi1m 58, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/solo-a-star-wars-story.md)
- *The Lego Batman Movie* (2017), Fi1m 74, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-batman-movie.md)

## Complete filmography (66)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Murder, She Wrote* (2028), Producer
- *Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse* (2027), Producer, Writer
- *Spider-Noir* (2026), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md)
- *The Sheep Detectives* (2026), Executive Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-sheep-detectives.md)
- *Project Hail Mary* (2026), Producer, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/project-hail-mary.md)
- *Los Frikis* (2024), Producer
- *Welcome Space Brothers* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Strays* (2023), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/strays.md)
- *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), as Additional Voices (voice) · Writer, Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md)
- *Clone High* (2023), series, as Principal Dr. Cinnamon J. Scudworth (voice) · Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Cocaine Bear* (2023), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/cocaine-bear.md)
- *The Afterparty* (2022), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Dog Cop 7: The Final Chapter* (2021), Thanks
- *America: The Motion Picture* (2021), Producer
- *The Mitchells vs. the Machines* (2021), Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mitchells-vs-the-machines.md)
- *Hoops* (2020), series, Executive Producer
- *Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia* (2020), Writer
- *Bless the Harts* (2019), series, Executive Producer
- *Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham* (2019), Thanks
- *The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part* (2019), Producer, Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie-2-the-second-part.md)
- *Emmet's Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), Screenplay, Producer, Story — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md)
- *Smallfoot* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Solo: A Star Wars Story* (2018), Executive Producer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/solo-a-star-wars-story.md)
- *Shark E. Shark in "Which Way To The Ocean?* (2017), Executive Producer
- *UniKitty!* (2017), series, Executive Producer
- *The Lego Ninjago Movie* (2017), Producer
- *Brigsby Bear* (2017), Producer
- *Baby Driver* (2017), Thanks — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/baby-driver.md)
- *Cooking with Alfred* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Movie Sound Effects: How Do They Do That?* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Batman Is Just Not That Into You* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Dark Hoser* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Making History* (2017), series, Executive Producer
- *The Lego Batman Movie* (2017), Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-batman-movie.md)
- *Storks* (2016), Executive Producer
- *The Master: A LEGO Ninjago Short* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Sausage Party* (2016), Thanks
- *The Last Man on Earth* (2015), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *22 Jump Street* (2014), Director, Executive Producer
- *The Lego Movie* (2014), Screenplay, Director, Story — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie.md)
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2* (2013), Executive Producer, Story
- *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/brooklyn-nine-nine.md)
- *Pincus* (2012), Executive Producer
- *The Pitch* (2012), series, Director
- *21 Jump Street* (2012), Director
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009), as Additional Voices (voice) · Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs.md)
- *Extreme Movie* (2008), Writer
- *How I Met Your Mother* (2005), series, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/how-i-met-your-mother.md)
- *Clone High* (2002), series, as Principal Dr. Cinnamon J. Scudworth (voice) · Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Go Fish* (2001), series, Writer
- *Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane* (1999), series, Writer
- *Caroline in the City* (1995), series, as Bill
- *Last Human*, Director, Producer
- *Bob the Musical*, Screenplay
- *The Six*, Producer
- *Archie*, Producer
- *The In-Claus*, Producer
- *The Mitchells vs. the Mitchells*, Producer
- *I Promise We’re Cool*, Producer
- *24 Jump Street*, Producer
- *Everyday Parenting Tips*, Producer
- *Paradox Inc.*, Producer
- *The Premonition: A Pandemic Story*, Director
- *48 Hours in Vegas*, Producer
- *Untitled Lucas Brothers Comedy*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Phil Lord](https://film.one/media/person/6980/gallery-f1f0e2c296ec.jpg) Phil Lord — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Phil_Lord_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Phil_Lord_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Phil Lord](https://film.one/media/person/6980/gallery-b887001f0123.jpg) Phil Lord — Image via TMDB
- ![Phil Lord](https://film.one/media/person/6980/gallery-571430dd6450.jpg) Phil Lord — Image via TMDB
- ![Phil Lord](https://film.one/media/person/6980/gallery-9ee42b8fa818.jpg) Phil Lord — Image via TMDB
- ![Phil Lord](https://film.one/media/person/6980/gallery-942b54335a95.jpg) Phil Lord — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- 2024: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*
- 2022: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *The Mitchells vs. The Machines*
- 2019: Best Animated Feature (won), for *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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