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Dana Murray

American film producer and special effects supervisor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ49440371 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dana Leigh Murray is an American animator and film producer, best known for being the producer on the 2020 Pixar film Soul, for which she has won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, alongside its director Pete Docter.

Editorial summary

“Dana Murray” enters the record as american film producer and special effects supervisor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dana, Murray and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dana, Murray and American.
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“Dana Murray” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dana, Murray and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q49440371. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dana Murray” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.