Aaron Hernandez

American Sports Story

Nina Jacobson has built an impressive career spanning over 30 years. Jacobson achieved enormous success as a senior film executive at three major motion picture studios before founding the independent company Color Force in 2007. Her first film as a producer and the first for Color Force was Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which grossed over $75 million worldwide and spawned three popular sequels. Jacobson also produced The Hunger Games franchise based on Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novels. Collectively, the franchise has grossed $2.9 billion worldwide, featuring, most recently, the prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which premiered in November 2023, and the newly announced follow-up prequel, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Jacobson’s feature-producing credits also include the groundbreaking film Crazy Rich Asians, based on Kevin Kwan’s international best-seller for Warner Bros., and Ben Is Back, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim.Jacobson and her Color Force partner Brad Simpson won Emmy® and Golden Globe® Awards for Color Force’s first foray into television, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, which they executive produced alongside Ryan Murphy. The show, the first installment of an anthology series, debuted on FX in February 2016 to critical acclaim and record ratings and went on to receive 22 Emmy Award nominations and nine wins. The series’ second installment, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, premiered in January 2018 and received 18 Emmy nominations and seven wins. Jacobson produced the critically acclaimed series Pose for FX, as well as Impeachment: American Crime Story and Y: The Last Man. Most recently, Jacobson and Simpson’s limited series Clipped, about the downfall of LA Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling, released on Hulu for FX. Upcoming for the pair is FX’s limited series Say Nothing, adapted from The New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe’s book, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.Prior to forming Color Force, Jacobson was president of the Walt Disney Motion Picture Group, where she oversaw script development and film production for Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures. During her tenure, 15 of Jacobson’s projects grossed over $100 million domestically, including Pirates of the Caribbean, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Princess Diaries.Before joining the Walt Disney Motion Picture Group, Jacobson was a senior film executive at DreamWorks SKG, where she developed What Lies Beneath and originated the idea of DreamWorks’ first animated feature Antz. She also held positions at Universal, Parkes/MacDonald Productions, Silver Pictures and began her career at Disney Sunday Movie.Jacobson sits on the board of Freedom House, a non-profit non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom and human rights. She is a graduate of Brown University and lives in the Pacific Palisades with her wife Jennifer, their three children, two dogs and a cat.

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Jacobson achieved enormous success as a senior film executive before founding the independent company Color Force in 2007. 

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Nina Jacobson | Executive Producer | American Sports Story on FX

American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez

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