Michael Williams (film producer)
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Michael Williams | |
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 Williams at the 2022 WonderCon | |
| Born | February 14, 1957 |
| Occupations | 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 seven 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]
