Bonnie Curtis

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Bonnie Curtis
Born
Bonnie Kathleen Curtis

March 26, 1966
Dallas, Texas[2]
OccupationFilm producer
AwardsPGA Award, Motion Picture Producer of the Year (1999)

Bonnie Kathleen Curtis (born March 26, 1966)

A.I., Minority Report, and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg. Her first solo project was the 2005 release The Chumscrubber. She then joined Mockingbird Pictures with partner Julie Lynn in 2011.[3] Curtis and Lynn produced Albert Nobbs, which was nominated for three Academy Awards. Curtis is a co-recipient of the 1999 Producers Guild Award for Motion Picture Producer of the Year, for Saving Private Ryan.[4] On March 12, 2015, Curtis was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame.[5] Spielberg congratulated her via video message during the ceremony.[6]

Life and career

Curtis was born in

women's social club.[8] She received the school's Gutenberg Award "for distinguished professional achievement" in journalism.[9]

Her earliest production work was on the films Arachnophobia and Dead Poets Society.[7] In 1989 Curtis started working with Spielberg, starting as a production assistant in what has turned out to be a 17-year professional relationship.

In her career, she has worked with a variety of actors, including Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Jude Law, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Vin Diesel, Tom Cruise, and Colin Farrell.

Her project The Chumscrubber was the subject of an interview granted to

The Advocate, in which she discussed the connections she saw between her parents' response to her "coming out" as a lesbian and the disbelieving response of the parents in the film to their children's stories of events and actions in their own lives that seem at odds with their parents' perceptions of them.[10] The interview also discussed her fundraising work with the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network and her appreciation of Spielberg's support, both personally and politically, in the form of such actions as resigning from the national advisory board of the Boy Scouts of America
to decry the group's positions on homosexuality.

In 2011, Curtis joined Julie Lynn's Mockingbird Pictures and the two became partners. They have since produced Albert Nobbs, The Face of Love, 5 to 7, and Last Days in the Desert.

In addition to film producing, Curtis is also a well known event speaker. She has spoken at various company retreats, as well as Chicago Ideas Week 2014.[11]

Filmography

She was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year Film Credit
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park Associate producer
Amistad Associate producer
1998 Saving Private Ryan Co-producer
2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2002 Minority Report
2005 The Chumscrubber
Red Eye Executive producer
2011 Albert Nobbs
2013 The Face of Love
2014 5 to 7
2015 Last Days in the Desert
2016 The Sweet Life
Wakefield
2017 Walking Out Executive producer
To the Bone
Life
2019 Terminator: Dark Fate Executive producer
2022 Raymond & Ray
My Father's Dragon
2023 Heart of Stone
Miscellaneous crew
Year Film Role
1991 Hook Assistant: Steven Spielberg
1993 Jurassic Park
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Schindler's List Production associate
1995 Casper Assistant: Steven Spielberg
As an actress
Year Film Role
2019 Text Messages from the Universe Dancer
Thanks
Year Film Role
2000 Mothman The producers wish to thank
2021 The Voyeurs Special thanks

Television

Year Title Credit Notes
2018 Dietland Executive producer
2020 Covid Is No Joke Executive producer Television special
Thanks
Year Title Role
2011 FutureStates Thanks

References

  1. ^ a b Ancestry.com. Texas Birth Index, 1903–1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Texas. Texas Birth Index, 1903–1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services. Microfiche.
  2. ^ a b c Jordan Mackay. "Bonnie Curtis" (cover story), Texas Monthly, Vol. 28, Issue 9, p. 166ff, September 2000.
  3. ^ "About Mockingbird Pictures | Mockingbird Pictures". mockingbirdpictures.com.
  4. ^ "Bonnie Curtis". IMDb.
  5. ^ Barker, Andrew (March 12, 2015). "Austin Film Society Fetes Lone Star Heroes".
  6. ^ Cipriani, Casey (March 13, 2015). "Watch: Steven Spielberg's Touching Tribute to Bonnie Curtis in Texas".
  7. ^ a b 20th Anniversary Topaz Awards Gala Archived March 21, 2005, at the Wayback Machine, October 22, 2004.
  8. ^ Abilene Christian University alumni directory.
  9. ^ Abilene Christian University, Gutenberg Award Winners Archived November 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  10. The Advocate
    , Issue 945, August 30, 2005. Retrieved on November 13, 2007.
  11. ^ "Bonnie Curtis: Work Like a Producer". Chicago Ideas.

External links

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