Kristine Belson

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Kristine Belson (born November 24, 1964 in Los Angeles , California) is an American film producer .

Life

Kristine Belson grew up in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of a Hollywood Foreign Press Association journalist and screenwriter Jerry Belson . At first, she distanced her parents' careers, but later changed her mind. So she attended Trinity College , where she studied film studies with Fred Pfeil, among others. In college she worked for radio, the literary magazine Trinity Review and spent a lot of time in the cinema studio. After graduating in 1986, she first went to New York City to become a publisher . Realizing this wasn't for her, she moved back to Los Angeles and started working on the film.

She first read and wrote some scripts, but then found a job with 20th Century Fox . There she helped start Turner Pictures and helped with City of Angels and Demons - Don't trust a soul . Eventually she started making films. She initially worked for The Jim Henson Company and produced the muppet films Muppets from Space (1999) and Muppets: The Wizard of Oz . Further works were In animal mission (2003) and Five Children and Es (2004). Then she switched to DreamWorks . Her first job there was the animated film How To Train Your Dragon and then The Croods . For the latter, she received an Oscar nomination in 2014 . She is currently producing BOO: Bureau for Ominous Administrative Offenses .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristine Belson. FamilySearch, accessed January 4, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b For Kristine Belson '86, a Unique Path to Oscar Nomination for “The Croods”. Trinity College , accessed January 4, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Belson, Kristine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California