Taxi Driver
1976
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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 ...
Jan 3, 2002 · Julia Phillips, the Hollywood producer who turned her rage at the stars and power brokers into the best-selling chronicle ''You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again,'' died Tuesday at her...
Apr 29, 2024 · Julia Phillips (born April 7, 1944, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 1, 2002, West Hollywood, Calif.) was an American film producer and writer who was the first woman to win an Academy Award for best picture, for The Sting (1973). Phillips was educated at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. (B.A., 1965), and worked in publishing before ...
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Jan 3, 2002 · Movie producer Julia Phillips, who made Hollywood history as the first woman to win a best picture Oscar--for “The Sting” in 1973--and who became the talk of the town almost 20 years later...
Julia Phillips was the first woman to win the Best Picture Oscar for producing The Sting (1973) and also worked on Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She wrote two controversial autobiographies about her Hollywood career and addiction, and died in 2002.
- Producer, Actress
- April 7, 1944
- Julia Phillips
- January 1, 2002
Apr 8, 2024 · By Carolyn Kellogg. April 8, 2024 3 AM PT. To see Julia Phillips become the first female producer to win a best picture Oscar is to get a glimpse of the charisma and wit that made her so...
Jan 3, 2002 · Julia Phillips was the first woman to win a best picture Oscar for \"The Sting\" and produced \"Taxi Driver\" and \"Close Encounters of the Third Kind\". She later wrote a memoir that exposed Hollywood's secrets and became an icon.
