Phil Tuckett -----Vice President for Special Projects
Phil Tuckett, Vice President of Special Projects,
is a 30-year veteran of NFL FILMS. Tuckett began as a cinematographer, capturing some of the most memorable events in football history like the stupefying "Miracle of the Meadowlands." He has been instrumental in establishing the pioneering style of NFL FILMS filmmaking.
Following the success of the 100-Yard Universe,
NFL FILMS' original cinemascope feature short for the
Pro Football Hall of Fame, Tuckett recently produced Championship Chase, the first sports film shot entirely in Super 35mm Cinemascope. Championship Chase is housed at the Game Day Stadium -- the centerpiece attraction for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.Tuckett is also producing Lost Treasures of NFL FILMS, the critically-acclaimed series for ESPN Classic, airing this fall. The series features never-before-aired vintage archival footage and wirings that NFL FILMS shot in early the 1960s and ‘70s.
This season, Tuckett is producing
NFL FILMS Presents Miked Up For Monday Night ?the groundbreaking halftime feature for ABC’s Monday Night Football. Two seasons earlier, Tuckett produced weekly mini-movies for “Monday Night” that took a look inside the lives of players as well as original music videos.
For Football America, the 1996 Emmy winner for Outstanding Sports Special, Tuckett traveled around the country to remote places like Juneau, Alaska; Fargo, North Dakota and Stephenville, Texas, to gather grass roots stories that created a definitive portrait of football as a reflection of the “America Dream.”.Tuckett went to the heart and soul of pro football by exploring not the country's disparate hamlets, but the attics and basements of family and friends of pros like Brett Favre and Troy Aikman to collect home movie reels of these and other NFL legends as kids for TNT original feature film ?
Before They Were Pros.
Tuckett has produced such critically-acclaimed specials as Autumn Ritual, NFL Symfunny, 25 Years of Sports Illustrated, and Munich Revisited, the ABC documentary that took a look back at the 1972 Israeli hostage tragedy. Since 1978, Tuckett has won 24 Emmys for cinematography, writing, and editing for such shows as NFL FILMS Presents, Road to the Super Bowl, and ABC’s Monday Night Football. As an acclaimed producer of music videos, Tuckett has won a Billboard Music Award for his work on music videos for some of the industry's most divergent musicians, including The Black Crowes and B.B. King. Tuckett's commercial work includes producing national spots for clients such as Sprint and Reebok.
Tuckett has also ventured outside the sports arena, producing Faces of Evil, a documentary film for TNT that examined the dark side of the human condition.