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Julia Phillips

1944 - 2002

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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, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Julia Phillips is the 6,742nd most popular writer (down from 6,680th in 2024), the 13,969th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,345th in 2019) and the 991st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Julia Phillips ranks 6,742 out of 7,302. Before her are Geetanjali Shree, Jeff VanderMeer, Joel Surnow, Cheryl Strayed, Philip Freneau, and Andrey Malakhov. After her are Clemence Dane, Carlos Salem, Victoria Hislop, Arvydas Juozaitis, Sophie Hannah, and Hiba Abu Nada.

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Among people born in 1944, Julia Phillips ranks 723. Before her are Ernest Moniz, David Kelly, Bob Riley, David Gerrold, George Armstrong, and Celeste Yarnall. After her are Richard A. Muller, Cathy Lee Crosby, Paul Scully-Power, Mike Oxley, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, and Peter Asher. Among people deceased in 2002, Julia Phillips ranks 352. Before her are Irene Worth, Satish Dhawan, Dolores Gray, Ernesto Díaz, Otis Blackwell, and Jim Crawford. After her are Larry Rivers, Hocine Soltani, Glenn Quinn, Timothy Findley, Bob Said, and Teresa Graves.

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Julia Phillips ranks 991. Before her are Anthony E. Zuiker (1968), Ellen Kushner (1955), Jeff VanderMeer (1968), Joel Surnow (1955), Cheryl Strayed (1968), and Philip Freneau (1752). After her are Steven S. DeKnight (1910), Sharon Olds (1942), Cecily von Ziegesar (1970), Countee Cullen (1903), Audrey Niffenegger (1963), and Christopher Moore (1957).

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