Sheila Nevins
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- April 6, 1939 (age 87)
- Birthplace
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Nevins previously ran MTV Documentary Films from 2019 to 2024, and was the President of HBO's Documentary and Family Programming from 2005 - 2018. She earned a bachelor of the arts degree from Barnard Collegeand a master of fine arts degree from Yale University. Nevins produced documentaries before joining HBO in 1979. Nevins has overseen production of nearly 500 documentaries, earning eleven Oscars, 31 Primetime Emmys, 19 Academy Awards, 22 News and Documentary Emmys and 18 George Foster Peabody awards for HBO and one personal George Foster Peabody award. She also received a 2005 News and Documentary Emmy for Lifetime Achievement. She received the 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association. Nevins was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2000. She began her career with the United States Information Service in Washington, DC, which produced and distributed documentary programs around the world. Nevins was a producer for National Education Television's Great Dream Machine, a field producer for an ABC television documentary unit, a writer for Time-Life Films, a producer-writer for the Children's Television Workshop, a producer for CBS-TV's Who's Who program, and president of Spinning Reels, a production company. She joined HBO in 1979 as director of documentary programming. Nevins was named executive vice president, original programming, for HBO and Cinemax in 1999 and President of Documentary and Family in 2005.
Known For
Citizenfour
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Project Nim
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
The Celluloid Closet
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
The Eternal Memory
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
Filmography
Manhood
Movie · Executive Producer
Ask E. Jean
Movie · Executive Producer
Outposts: Nothing Here is Yours
Movie · Producer
Musk. Check One Two
Movie · Executive Producer
Cutting Through Rocks
Movie · Executive Producer
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
Movie · Producer
Vanishing: A Love Story
Movie · Executive Producer
The ABCs of Book Banning
Movie · Producer
Death Without Mercy
Movie · Executive Producer
After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home
Movie · Executive Producer
The Path Forward
Movie · Executive Producer
I Am Ready, Warden
Movie · Executive Producer
Chasing Roo
Movie · Executive Producer
Rosie's Theater Kids
Movie · Producer
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Movie · Executive Producer
Last Song from Kabul
Movie · Executive Producer
The Eternal Memory
Movie · Executive Producer
Mourning in Lod
Movie · Executive Producer
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
Movie · Executive Producer
Pay or Die
Movie · Executive Producer
Alive in Bronze
Movie · Executive Producer
Afghan Dreamers
Movie · Executive Producer
Last Flight Home
Movie · Executive Producer
Anastasia
Movie · Executive Producer
Omoiyari
Movie · Executive Producer
The Fire That Took Her
Movie · Executive Producer
Going to Pot: The High and Low of It
Movie · Executive Producer
A Life Too Short
Movie · Executive Producer
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Movie · Executive Producer
My Father the Mover
Movie · Executive Producer
American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself
Movie · Executive Producer
Gay Chorus Deep South
Movie · Executive Producer
Liberty: Mother of Exiles
Movie · Executive Producer
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
Movie · Executive Producer
Finding the Way Home
Movie · Executive Producer
St. Louis Superman
Movie · Executive Producer
17 Blocks
Movie · Executive Producer
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
TV · Executive Producer · 2 eps
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Movie · Executive Producer
The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm
Movie · Executive Producer
Bleed Out
Movie · Executive Producer
Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
Movie · Executive Producer
A Dangerous Son
Movie · Executive Producer
RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee
Movie · Executive Producer
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
TV · Executive Producer · 2 eps
Arthur Miller: Writer
Movie · Executive Producer
Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show
Movie · Executive Producer
Cries from Syria
Movie · Executive Producer
Meth Storm
Movie · Executive Producer
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Movie · Executive Producer
I Am Evidence
Movie · Executive Producer
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
Movie · Executive Producer
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
Movie · Executive Producer
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
Movie · Executive Producer
Traffic Stop
Movie · Executive Producer
Becoming Warren Buffett
Movie · Executive Producer
The Words That Built America
Movie · Executive Producer
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
TV · Executive Producer · 2 eps
15: A Quinceañera Story
TV · Executive Producer · 1 ep
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
Movie · Executive Producer
Suited
Movie · Executive Producer
Class Divide
Movie · Producer
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
Movie · Executive Producer
Risky Drinking
Movie · Executive Producer
Jim: The James Foley Story
Movie · Executive Producer
Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing
Movie · Executive Producer
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
Movie · Executive Producer
Abortion: Stories Women Tell
Movie · Executive Producer
Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Movie · Executive Producer
Becoming Mike Nichols
Movie · Executive Producer
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Movie · Executive Producer
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Movie · Executive Producer
Thought Crimes
Movie · Executive Producer
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Movie · Executive Producer
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Movie · Executive Producer
Everything Is Copy
Movie · Executive Producer
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Movie · Executive Producer
Living With Lincoln
Movie · Executive Producer
Private Violence
Movie · Executive Producer
The Case Against 8
Movie · Executive Producer
Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert
Movie · Executive Producer
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
Movie · Executive Producer
Banksy Does New York
Movie · Executive Producer
Citizenfour
Movie · Executive Producer
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
Movie · Executive Producer
Terror at the Mall
Movie · Executive Producer
Six by Sondheim
Movie · Executive Producer
Life According to Sam
Movie · Executive Producer
An Apology to Elephants
Movie · Executive Producer
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Movie · Executive Producer
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Movie · Executive Producer
About Face: Supermodels Then and Now
Movie · Executive Producer
First Cousin Once Removed
Movie · Executive Producer
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Movie · Executive Producer
Mondays at Racine
Movie · Executive Producer
Don't Divorce Me! Kids' Rules for Parents on Divorce
Movie · Executive Producer
The Weight of the Nation
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
The Loving Story
Movie · Executive Producer
Gloria: In Her Own Words
Movie · Executive Producer
Reagan
Movie · Executive Producer
Koran by Heart
Movie · Executive Producer
Journey Into Dyslexia
Movie · Executive Producer
Hot Coffee
Movie · Executive Producer
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
Movie · Executive Producer
Mann v. Ford
Movie · Executive Producer
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
Movie · Executive Producer
Love Crimes Of Kabul
Movie · Executive Producer
Project Nim
Movie · Executive Producer
Vito
Movie · Executive Producer
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
Movie · Executive Producer
Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
Movie · Executive Producer
Kevorkian
Movie · Executive Producer
One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
Movie · Executive Producer
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
Movie · Executive Producer
Secrets of the Tribe
Movie · Executive Producer
A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
Movie · Executive Producer
For Neda
Movie · Executive Producer
I Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences
Movie · Executive Producer
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
TV · Executive Producer · 2 eps
Sergio
Movie · Executive Producer
The Trials of Ted Haggard
Movie · Executive Producer
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Movie · Executive Producer
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Movie · Executive Producer
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Movie · Executive Producer
Studs Terkel: Listening to America
Movie · Executive Producer
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags
Movie · Executive Producer
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
Movie · Executive Producer
Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
Movie · Executive Producer
The Final Inch
Movie · Executive Producer
The Alzheimer's Project
TV · Executive Producer · 5 eps
Andrew Jenks, Room 335
Movie · Executive Producer
The Boys from Baghdad High
Movie · Executive Producer
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Movie · Executive Producer
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
Movie · Executive Producer
Portraits of a Lady
Movie · Executive Producer
Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi
Movie · Executive Producer
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Movie · Executive Producer
I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA
Movie · Executive Producer
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Movie · Executive Producer
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
Movie · Executive Producer
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Movie · Executive Producer
Baghdad ER
Movie · Executive Producer
Wide Awake
Movie · Executive Producer
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story
Movie · Executive Producer
Xiara's Song
Movie · Executive Producer
I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
Movie · Executive Producer
The End
Movie · Executive Producer
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
Movie · Executive Producer
Last Letters Home
Movie · Executive Producer
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Movie · Executive Producer
Looking for Fidel
Movie · Executive Producer
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
Movie · Executive Producer
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Movie · Executive Producer
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
Movie · Executive Producer
The Virtual Corpse
Movie · Executive Producer
Comandante
Movie · Executive Producer
Persona Non Grata
Movie · Executive Producer
America Undercover
TV · Producer · 7 eps
Journeys with George
Movie · Executive Producer
Thoth
Movie · Executive Producer
And Along Came a Spider
Movie · Executive Producer
Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001
Movie · Executive Producer
Southern Comfort
Movie · Executive Producer
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Movie · Executive Producer
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Movie · Executive Producer
Broken Child
Movie · Producer
101 Rent Boys
Movie · Executive Producer
Cancer: Evolution to Revolution
Movie · Executive Producer
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Movie · Producer
American Hollow
Movie · Executive Producer
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
Movie · Executive Producer
The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years
Movie · Executive Producer
Life of Crime 2
Movie · Executive Producer
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
Movie · Executive Producer
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
Movie · Executive Producer
Kids Are Punny
Movie · Executive Producer
Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
Movie · Producer
The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row
Movie · Executive Producer
4 Little Girls
Movie · Executive Producer
Twins: The Divided Self
Movie · Executive Producer
Without Pity: A Film About Abilities
Movie · Executive Producer
The Celluloid Closet
Movie · Executive Producer
Prisoners of the War on Drugs
Movie · Executive Producer
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Movie · Executive Producer
Memphis PD: War on the Streets
Movie · Executive Producer
5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids
Movie · Executive Producer
Taxicab Confessions
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Movie · Executive Producer
Mob Stories
Movie · Executive Producer
Educating Peter
Movie · Producer
Abortion: Desperate Choices
Movie · Executive Producer
How to Raise a Streetsmart Child
Movie · Executive Producer