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Query #19 · full-name query comparison · Film & television
Todd Phillips.
From comedy to complicated characters
A filmmaker whose work ranges from documentary and broad comedy to darker character-driven stories.
The HangoverOld SchoolJokerFilm direction
Comedy and a change of dramatic register
Todd Phillips is an American filmmaker whose career includes documentary work, comedy and drama. Early projects included Hated and the documentary Frat House, which received recognition at Sundance. He later directed comedies including Road Trip, Old School and The Hangover, with the latter developing into a multi-film series. [1]
A broad directing career
Phillips also directed Joker, a film that brought a comic-book character into a psychological-drama framework, and its follow-up Joker: Folie à Deux. His filmography offers a clear contrast between ensemble comedy and darker character-centered material. The biographical reference below documents the credits used here. Readers can follow individual film titles into the original distributor’s materials; a personal website is left blank where we have not verified one. [1]
The conversation starter
No weather talk allowed.
A question we’d love to put to Todd Phillips.
QUESTION FOR THE GREEN ROOM
What’s the thing people get completely wrong about your work?
Search interest over time
Following the curiosity.
Annual values for the full name query on one calculated comparison scale. These can combine people, brands or other meanings; they are not isolated-person rankings or search counts.
Read the methodology ↗| Period | Relative scale | Index |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9.00 | |
| 2022 | 8.65 | |
| 2023 | 7.61 | |
| 2024 | 16.96 | |
| 2025 | 6.23 | |
| Jan–Sep2026 | 9.69 |
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In good company.
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fictional SATIRE / THE PLAYGROUND
Their whole fiction archive ↗Todd Phillips goes a little Toddly.
A separate, make-believe corner: imagined cartoons and fictional adventures, never biography or real events.
Preview edition
A wandering guest star
Todd Phillips set up a backyard cinema with a screen, two lawn chairs, and a popcorn tub striped like a circus tent. Todd Haynes brought a paper ticket for the moon. Just as the first frame appeared, the moon drifted behind the screen, leaving only a silver glow at the edges. The audience of garden gnomes gasped with professional timing.
Starring Todd Phillips