Julia Phillips (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.In 1991, Phillips published an infamous tell-all memoir of her years as a Hollywood producer, entitled You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, which became a bestseller.
[on her book "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again" in People magazine] I'm just being honest. I didn't write the book to get back in the business. I had to accept the fact that I wasn't in the business before I wrote the book.
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Discloses in her book "You'll never eat lunch in this town again" that she had a brief affair with another patient at a psychiatric facility.
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Was a close friend of Cass Elliot, sometimes playing the card game Canasta with her.
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She and her husband Michael Phillips were the first married couple to win Oscars the same year. They were also the first one to win in the same category.
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Graduated from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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Her father was a scientist who worked on the Los Alamos project that developed the atomic bomb.
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Brother: Matthew Miller.
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Daughter, Kate.
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She died from cancer at her apartment in West Hollywood, CA. She had been diagnosed with cancer in August 2001.
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Born in Manhattan, she later grew up in Brooklyn, New York; Great Neck, NY; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Julia Phillips was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Picture (for The Sting (1973) in 1974). She was the only female winner until 1989, when she was joined by Lili Fini Zanuck (who won for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)).
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In her book about Hollywood, "You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again," she wrote that actor Warren Beatty asked her in the mid 1980s if she wanted to have a threesome with him and her thirteen-year-old daughter. Julia replied, "Warren, we're both too old for you.".
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
producer
The Boost
1988
executive producer - uncredited
The Beat
1988
producer
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
producer
The Big Bus
1976
executive producer
Taxi Driver
1976
producer
The Sting
1973
producer
Steelyard Blues
1973
producer
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
New York, New York
1977
Woman Flirting with Jimmy (uncredited)
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Unzipped
1999
TV Series documentary
Herself
Lauren Hutton and...
1996
TV Series
Herself
The 46th Annual Academy Awards
1974
TV Special
Herself - Winner: Best Picture
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
Documentary
Herself
The 74th Annual Academy Awards
2002
TV Special
Herself - Memorial Tribute
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1998
PGA Hall of Fame - Motion Pictures
PGA Awards
The Sting (1973)
1974
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Picture
The Sting (1973)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1977
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Picture
Taxi Driver (1976)
Known for movies
Taxi Driver (1976) as Producer
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) as Producer
The Sting (1973) as Producer
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) as Producer
$15 Million
