Bonnie Curtis

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name = Bonnie Curtis
birthname = Bonnie Kathleen Curtis
birthdate = March 26, 1966Ancestry.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.]
birthplace = Dallas, TexasJordan Mackay. "Bonnie Curtis" (cover story), "Texas Monthly", Vol. 28, Issue 9, p. 166ff, September 2000.]
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awards = PGA Award, Motion Picture Producer of the Year (1999)

Bonnie Kathleen Curtis (born March 26, 1966Ancestry.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.] Dallas, TexasJordan Mackay. "Bonnie Curtis" (cover story), "Texas Monthly", Vol. 28, Issue 9, p. 166ff, September 2000.] [http://wifdallas.org/event-20041023.asp 20th Anniversary Topaz Awards Gala] , October 22, 2004.] )is a film producer whose credits include "Saving Private Ryan", "A.I.", "Minority Report", and "", directed by Steven Spielberg. Her first solo project was the 2005 release "The Chumscrubber". She is a co-recipient of the 1999 Producers Guild Award for Motion Picture Producer of the Year, for "Saving Private Ryan". [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193268/awards Bonnie Curtis: Awards and nominations] ]

Curtis is a 1988 graduate of Abilene Christian University, where she majored in journalism after graduating from Dallas Christian High School;Jordan Mackay. "Bonnie Curtis" (cover story), "Texas Monthly", Vol. 28, Issue 9, p. 166ff, September 2000.] she is a member of the university's Sigma Theta Chi women's social club.Abilene Christian University alumni directory.] She received the school's Gutenberg Award "for distinguished professional achievement" in journalism.Abilene Christian University, [http://www.acu.edu/academics/cas/jmc/alumni.html Gutenberg Award Winners] ]

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

In her professional 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.Christopher Lisotta. " [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2005_August_30/ai_n15383924 Spielberg's star pupil] ", "The Advocate", Issue 945, August 30, 2005. Retrieved on November 13, 2007.] The interview also discussed her fundraising work with the Gay, Lesbian, and 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.

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* [http://www.wifdallas.org/news/news2004.0907.asp Women in Film-Dallas: Top Hollywood producer Bonnie Curtis to be honored at Topaz] , September 7, 2004.