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Darla Kay Anderson is an American film producer who formerly worked at Pixar Animation Studios.[1] She sits on the national board of directors for the Producers Guild of America.[2]

Life and career[]

She produced the 2010 film Toy Story 3,[3][4] which was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Picture and which won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Previously, Anderson won a Golden Satellite Award for A Bug's Life, a BAFTA award for A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc. and a Producer's Guild Award for Cars.[5]

The 2008 Guinness Book of World Records lists Anderson as having the highest average movie gross for a producer: $221 million per movie,[1] and in 2011 the Wall Street Journal listed a combined gross for the four movies she's produced of over $2 billion.[6]

Anderson was born and raised in Glendale, California. She studied environmental design at San Diego State University. Before coming to Pixar in 1993,[7] she worked as an executive producer at Angel Studios.[5][8] The character Darla in Finding Nemo was created by the director and screenwriter Andrew Stanton to get back at her for playing practical jokes on him.[5][8]

On March 8, 2018, it was announced that after nearly 25 years, Anderson left Pixar to pursue other opportunities.[9] In January 2019, it was reported that Anderson had signed a multi-year development deal with Netflix, in which she will develop and produce new animated and live-action projects.[10]

Personal life[]

Anderson is married to Kori Rae, also a Pixar producer, who produced Monsters University. They live together in Noe Valley, San Francisco.[11]

They met in 1991 when Anderson, a San Francisco newcomer, joined a softball team that Rae managed. Anderson and Rae started dating in 2001, during the last year of Monsters, Inc. Since then, they have decided not to work together on the same films. They first married on Presidents' Day 2004 while San Francisco was issuing same-sex marriage licenses, but those licenses were voided by the state Supreme Court.[12]

They married again in 2008, after that court declared same-sex marriage legal but before Proposition 8 took effect.[11][13]

Anderson's nephew, Jack Taylor, scored an NCAA record 138 points playing college basketball. She helped him pay to attend basketball camps at upper-tier colleges while he was growing up.[14]

Filmography[]

Year Title Role
1998 A Bug's Life Producer
2001 Monsters, Inc.
2006 Cars
2010 Toy Story 3
2017 Coco

See also[]

  • List of LGBT Academy Award winners and nominees

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2008 Guinness Book of World Records. Bantam Dell. 2007. p. 311.
  2. ↑ "Officers, Board Members & Staff – Producers Guild of America". Producersguild.org. http://www.producersguild.org/?page=officers. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ Ryzik, Melena. "THE CARPETBAGGER; Animation Advocacy, Pixar Style", The New York Times, February 10, 2011. Retrieved on March 1, 2011. 
  4. ↑ "Most Powerful Women of the 2011 Academy Awards", Forbes, February 25, 2011. Retrieved on March 1, 2011. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Darla K. Anderson, Pixartalk.com, Retrieved February 26, 2010
  6. ↑ Kung, Michelle. "Pixar Producer Darla K. Anderson on 'Toy Story 3'", Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2011. Retrieved on March 1, 2011. 
  7. ↑ Grady, Pam. "It was love at first screening for Pixar producer", San Francisco Chronicle, June 13, 2010. Retrieved on March 1, 2011. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ben Fritz (July 30, 2007). "Darla Anderson – Women's Impact Report 2007 – Variety". Variety. https://web.archive.org/web/20071018194719/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969264.html?categoryid=2160&cs=1. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
  9. ↑ McClintock, Pamela. "'Coco' Oscar-Winning Producer Darla K. Anderson Leaving Pixar (Exclusive)", The Hollywood Reporter, March 8, 2018. Retrieved on March 11, 2018. 
  10. ↑ Lang, Brent. "Netflix Signs Development Deal With Oscar-Winning ‘Coco’ Producer Darla K. Anderson (EXCLUSIVE)", Variety, January 31, 2019. Retrieved on February 4, 2019. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Hartlaub, Peter. "'The classic lesbian love story': Pixar 'Monsters' producers in love", June 28, 2013. Retrieved on June 29, 2013. 
  12. ↑ "California Court Nullifies Same-Sex Marriages", PBS News Hour, August 12, 2004. Retrieved on February 21, 2012. 
  13. ↑ "Statement of Vote: 2008 General Election" (PDF). California Secretary of State. December 13, 2008. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121018225250/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2008_general/sov_complete.pdf. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  14. ↑ Prisbell, Eric. "Once lost in pursuit of points, Grinnell's Jack Taylor finds contentment", December 24, 2013. 

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2000s Shrek – Aron Warner (2001) • Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki (2002) • Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton (2003) • The Incredibles – Brad Bird (2004) • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Nick Park and Steve Box (2005) • Happy Feet – George Miller (2006) • Ratatouille – Brad Bird (2007) • WALL-E – Andrew Stanton (2008) • Up – Pete Docter (2009)
2010s Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich (2010) • Rango – Gore Verbinski (2011) • Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman (2012) • Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Peter Del Vecho (2013) • Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams, and Roy Conli (2014) • Inside Out – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera (2015) • Zootopia – Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer (2016) • Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson (2017) • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2018) • Toy Story 4 – Josh Cooley, Jonas Rivera, and Mark Nielsen (2019)

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