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American film producer

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.

She was born Julia Miller to a Polish Jewish family in New York City, the daughter of Tanya and Adolph Miller.

In 1972, Phillips along with her husband Michael Phillips and producer Tony Bill commissioned David S. Ward to write the screenplay for The Sting, for $3,500. Phillips was also a notorious drug user (cocaine especially), which she chronicled in detail in her memoirs. The side effects of cocaine addiction caused her to be fired from Close Encounters of the Third Kind during post production. Periods of drug abuse, gratuitous spending and damaging boyfriends took their toll over the next few years. Phillips's early work in a producing team with her husband continues to receive acclaim within the industry. Twenty five years after its Oscar success, The Sting was inducted into the Producers Guild of America's Hall of Fame, granting each of its producers a Golden Laurel Award. In June 2007, Taxi Driver was ranked as the 52nd best American feature film of all time by the American Film Institute. In December 2007, Close Encounters was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

In 1991, Phillips published You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again about her experiences in Hollywood. The book topped the New York Times bestseller list, but its revelations about high profile film personalities, Hollywood's drug culture, and casting couch sensibilities drew ire from many former colleagues. Her follow up book Driving Under the Affluence was released in 1995. It was mostly an account of how the success of her first book changed her life. In 2000, she also helped Matt Drudge write his Drudge Manifesto.

Phillips died from cancer at her home in West Hollywood, California, on New Year's Day 2002, at the age of 57, She had one daughter, Kate Phillips Wiczyk, who is married to Modi Wiczyk, co founder of independent film and television studio Media Rights Capital.