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Julia Phillips (April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an American film producer and author, best known for her groundbreaking work on 1970s blockbusters such as The Sting (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and for becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Julia Miller was born on April 7, 1944 to a Polish-Jewish family in New York City, the daughter of Tanya and Adolph Miller.
Born in New York City to chemical engineer Adolph Miller and his wife Tanya, Phillips grew up in Brooklyn, Great Neck on Long Island, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, amid a challenging family dynamic marked by her mother's depression. She attended Mount Holyoke College, graduating in the class of 1965 after earning creative writing awards during her studies. Early in her career, she worked as an editor at magazines including Ladies' Home Journal and McCall's, before transitioning to the film industry at Paramount Pictures.
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