John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette

Love 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 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, which together have grossed $2.9 billion worldwide, including Lionsgate's hit prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and the upcoming follow-up prequel, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.Jacobson's feature producing credits also include Warner Bros. groundbreaking film Crazy Rich Asians, based on Kevin Kwan's international best-seller, 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 Clipped, Impeachment: American Crime Story and Y: The Last Man. She executive produced FX's American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, which premiered in September 2024, and the FX limited series Say Nothing, based on 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 Pictures, Parkes/MacDonald Productions and Silver Pictures after beginning 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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Nina Jacobson has built an impressive career spanning over 30 years and is the founder of Color Force.

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Nina Jacobson | Executive Producer | Love Story on FX

Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette

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