Michael Williams

Education

Boston University.

Career

He is co-owner and principal of Scout Productions, a film and television production company based in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the School of Communications at Boston University. In 1979, Williams began his career as a location scout for Spenser for Hire, which filmed in Boston.

Achievements

• He won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature for the documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara in 2004. He also won an Emmy Award in 2004 for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which he created.