Biography

Michael Williams is an Academy and Emmy Award winning producer and co-owner of Scout Productions. Over the course of his career, Michael has achieved considerable industry recognition, including an Oscar for producing Errol Morris' documentary The Fog of War, an Emmy for executive producing the barrier-breaking Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and most recently, an Emmy for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network's Home Made Simple. Queer Eye, in particular, also earned Michael the 2004 PGA Producer of the Year Award, and would go on to air in over 120 countries. He is currently executive producing an all new Queer Eye, set to premiere on Netflix in early 2018. Michael has also produced the Sundance Channel's Big Ideas for a Small Planet, for which he earned an EMA Best Documentary Series Award; NESN's Sox Appeal, for which he earned two New England Emmy Awards; the critically acclaimed ABC series The Quest, which brought reality competition to the world of high fantasy; four seasons of The Outdoor Room with Jamie Durie, one of HGTV's biggest-budget landscape shows; and many other series. Beyond The Fog of War, Michael's collaborations with documentary auteur Errol Morris also includes the award-winning feature documentary Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., as well as the acclaimed television series First Person for Bravo and IFC. Michael's previous features include Brad Anderson's thrillers Session 9 and Transsiberian, which starred Sir Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, and Woody Harrelson.

- IMDb mini biography by: Joel Chiodi