Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Philip Lord and Christopher Miller are an American filmmaking duo. After a meeting at Dartmouth College, they are known for creating the adult animated sitcom Clone High (2002–2003), the Pixar science fiction sitcom Dell and Gary and its prequel series Pixelia (2028-2030), The Last Pixelian (2030-2033) and Kumatsu (2034-2037), directing and writing the animated films Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and The Lego Movie (2014), Dragon Tales: The Movie (2023), De Blob (2024) and its sequel, De Blob 2: The Second Part (2029), Little Einsteins: The Movie (2025), Dell and Gary: The Movie (2033), and ROBLOX: The Movie (2038), as well as directing the live-action comedy film 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel, 22 Jump Street (2014). Lord and Miller also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature as producers of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), which was co-written by Lord, and co-produced the television series The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018) for Fox and Unikitty! (2017–2020) for Cartoon Network. Lord and Miller won Best Animated Feature in three consecutive years for Dragon Tales: The Movie (2023), De Blob (2024) and Little Einsteins: The Movie (2025).

Early life
According to The New York Times, Lord is from Miami; his mother is a Cuban-born psychologist, and his father retired from the aviation business and before that directed a dance company, Fusion, for 10 years. Miller is from the Seattle area, where his father runs a lumber mill.

Lord and Miller both grew up making short films with an affinity for animation. Both attended Dartmouth College, and had separate comics in the school newspaper, The Dartmouth. Lord was a member of Amarna, a co-ed undergraduate society while Miller was a brother at Alpha Chi Alpha. During his time in college, Christopher met his girlfriend, now wife.

During their time at Dartmouth, the school paper published a profile on Miller, which caught the attention of then chairman of Disney, Michael Eisner. According to Lord, Eisner brought the profile to the attention of his fellow Disney executives who then offered to set up a meeting with Miller. Miller agreed to the meeting as long as he could bring Lord. After three months, the two moved to Los Angeles and after one meeting were offered a two-year development deal at Walt Disney Television Animation.