Michael Williams | |
Birth Date: | 14 February 1957 |
Birth Place: | United States |
Occupation: | Film producer, television producer |
Michael Williams (born February 14, 1957) is an American producer. He won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara in 2004.[1] He also won an Emmy Award in 2004 for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,[2] which he created.[3] Queer Eye was rebooted in 2018, for which Williams won five consecutive Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Structured Reality Program. He is co-owner and principal of Scout Productions,[4] a film and television production company based in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the School of Communications at Boston University. In 1979,[3] [4] Williams began his career as a location scout for Spenser for Hire, which filmed in Boston.[4]