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Julia Phillips

First woman to win Best Picture Oscar as producer.

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She was born Julia Miller on April 7, 1944, in New York City to a Polish-Jewish family.[1] Phillips produced Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind; she died of cancer on January 1, 2002.[2][3]

Life and work

Phillips grew up in Brooklyn, Great Neck, and Milwaukee, the daughter of a chemical engineer father and a writer mother who became addicted to prescription drugs.[1] A 1965 graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a political science degree, she wed Michael Phillips the following year.[1] In 1971, the couple relocated to California to work on Steelyard Blues, which came out in 1973.[4] When The Sting won the Best Picture Oscar in 1973, Phillips became the first woman to earn that award as a producer.[5]

She produced Taxi Driver, a film that took the Palme d'Or in 1976 and later earned a Best Picture nomination.[6]

What the cited sources add

A 1991 Chicago Tribune article notes that Phillips worked, partied, and ingested huge amounts of drugs with major Hollywood names.[2] The same article describes her mother as a would-be writer who took her frustrations out on her daughter.[2] The same KCET article lists her as "Julia Miller Phillips" among the notable burials at Hillside.[7] A Chicago Tribune article notes that Phillips was let go from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and that her drug use was rumored to have caused chaos on set.[2]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Julia Phillips" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Weinraub, "Julia Phillips, 57, Producer Who Assailed Hollywood, Dies", New York Times, January 3, 2002, p. 21; Sanello, "Hollywood Story Of 'Highs' And Lows", Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1991; Weinraub, "Julia Phillips, 57, Producer Who Assailed Hollywood, Dies", New York Times, January 3, 2002, p. 21; Weinraub, "Julia Phillips, 57, Producer Who Assailed Hollywood, Dies", New York Times, January 3, 2002, p. 21; Weinraub, "Julia Phillips, 57, Producer Who Assailed Hollywood, Dies", New York Times, January 3, 2002, p. 21; Weinraub, "Julia P en.wikipedia.org
  2. Sanello, "Hollywood Story Of 'Highs' And Lows", Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1991. facts only, no text reused. chicagotribune.com
  3. Wikipedia, "Julia Phillips" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Harris, "Julia Phillips, producer, author, dies at age 57", Penske Business Media, LLC., January 2, 2002; Weinraub, "Julia Phillips, 57, Producer Who Assailed Hollywood, Dies", New York Times, January 3, 2002, p. 21; Meares, "Hillside Memorial Park: A Jewish Modernist Masterpiece in the Midst of the City", KCET, March 14, 2014; Silverman, "Hollywood Iconoclast Phillips Dies", Meredith Corporation, January 3, 2002 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Julia Phillips" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sanello, "Hollywood Story Of 'Highs' And Lows", Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1991; "The Sting of Success", New York, January 27, 1975, p. 30 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Julia Phillips" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Child, "How we made ... Michael Phillips and David S Ward on The Sting", The Guardian, June 4, 2012; Sanello, "Hollywood Story Of 'Highs' And Lows", Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1991; "The Sting of Success", New York, January 27, 1975, p. 30 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Julia Phillips" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Phillips, "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again", Random House, 1991, p. 274 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Meares, "Hillside Memorial Park: A Jewish Modernist Masterpiece in the Midst of the City", KCET, March 14, 2014. facts only, no text reused. kcet.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Julia Phillips (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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