Julia Phillips (April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an American film producer and author. She co-produced three of the most 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 Film.
In 1991, Phillips published an infamous tell-all memoir of her years as a Hollywood producer, entitled You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, which became a bestseller.
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