Julia Phillips (April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning film producer and author.
Born Julia Miller in New York City, she received her B.A. in Political Science from Mount Holyoke College in 1965, where she met Michael Phillips, whom she married, and whom she would later divorce. She worked for a time editing articles.
In 1973, The Sting won the Academy Award for Best Picture and made Phillips the first woman to win an Oscar...
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Julia Phillips (April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning film producer and author.
Born Julia Miller in New York City, she received her B.A. in Political Science from Mount Holyoke College in 1965, where she met Michael Phillips, whom she married, and whom she would later divorce. She worked for a time editing articles.
In 1973, The Sting won the Academy Award for Best Picture and made Phillips the first woman to win an Oscar as a producer (an award shared by Tony Bill and Phillips' then-husband Michael Phillips.) In 1977, Taxi Driver (produced by Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips) was nominated for Best Picture. After her third major film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (produced with Michael Phillips and associate producer / production manager Clark Paylow), François Truffaut publicly criticized Phillips as incompetent: a charge she rejected, writing that she had essentially nursed Truffaut through his self-created nightmare of implied hearing loss,...
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