Person
Julia Phillips
Production · 1944–2002 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
Taxi Driver
Producer
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Producer
The Sting
Producer
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Producer
The Big Bus
Executive Producer
Steelyard Blues
Producer
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
The Boost
Executive Producer
Filmography
- 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved HollywoodSelf
- 1996E! True Hollywood Story
- 1991Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's DeadProducer
- 1988The BoostExecutive Producer
- 1977Close Encounters of the Third KindProducer
- 1976The Big BusExecutive Producer
- 1976Taxi DriverProducer
- 1973The StingProducer
- 1973Steelyard BluesProducer
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