Producer

Julia Phillips

82 years · New York City, New York, USA · 6 films

Julia Phillips (née Miller; April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband Michael (and others) three prominent films of the 1970s—The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind—and was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, received for The Sting. In 1991, Phillips published an infamous tell-all memoir of her years as a Hollywood producer, titled You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, which became a bestseller. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julia Phillips, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.