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 novel, which together have grossed $2.9
billion worldwide.
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 claimed series Pose for FX, which wrapped its
final season this year and recently completed production on Impeachment:
American Crime Story, alongside Ryan Murphy. Jacobson also produced the
groundbreaking feature 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.
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 is a graduate of Brown University and lives in the
Pacific Palisades with her wife Jennifer, their three children, two dogs and a
cat.