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 | | By 2006, 40-year-old Nina Jacobson, described as “lean as a marathoner, energetic, verbal and intense, all sharp angles and elbows,” had become one of the heavy-hitters in the traditionally male-dominated entertainment business, as the president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group (WDMPG), a division/business unit of The Walt Disney Company (TWDC). |
 | | She joined WDMPG, formerly the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, in February 1998 and by 2006 had supervised the studio’s production of The Sixth Sense, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, and Pirates of the Caribbean, amongst other films. |
 | | Some of her favorite films to have worked on during her tenure at Disney were The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Sixth Sense, Freaky Friday, and The Princess Diaries. |
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