Bonnie Arnold - 'How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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One of Hollywood's top producers reflects on breaking into the biz in her native Georgia, unexpectedly winding up in animation and, most recently, devoting a decade to DreamWorks Animation's blockbuster trilogy. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and recorded and produced by Matthew Whitehurst and Joshua Farnham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 321st episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.
0:15.0	I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the most successful and
0:18.7	respected producers in Hollywood.
0:21.2	A Golden Globe, Producers Guild, Visual Effects Society, and Annie Award winner,
0:26.1	and two-time Oscar nominee whose credits include 1990s, Dances with Wolves,
0:31.1	1991's The Adams Family, 1995's Toy Story, 1999's Tarzan, 2006's
0:37.4	Over The Hedge, 2009's The Last Station, and all three installments of the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, the 2010 original, the 2014 sequel
0:47.6	How to Train Your Dragon 2, and 2019's How to Train Your Dragon, The Hidden World.
0:53.5	A Trailblazer, regularly included on the Hollywood Reporters Women and Entertainment Power 100 list,
0:59.0	who has been described by Jeffrey Katzenberg as one of the quote most accomplished and prolific filmmakers
1:04.1	working in feature animation today close quote and who has worked at all three of the
1:09.2	biggest film animation companies Disney Pixar and Pixar, and DreamWorks.
1:14.2	The former president of Feature Animation
1:16.2	at DreamWorks Animation and still a top producer there,
1:19.5	who will be attending the 92nd Academy Awards
1:21.8	on February 9th as a nominee for the best animated
1:24.7	feature Oscar, Bonnie Arnold. Over the course of our conversation at the offices of
1:29.4	the Hollywood reporter, the 65-year-old and I discussed how she managed to break into the business from her hometown of Atlanta.
1:36.0	How, quite by accident, she wound up shifting her focus from live action films to animated films.
1:42.0	Why she has devoted a decade of her life... live action films to animated films.
1:43.0	Why she has devoted a decade of her life and career to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise
1:48.0	even while for a time also serving as head of the studio behind it, plus much more. And so without further ado, let's go to that conversation.
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