Sheila Nevins
- Production
- April 6, 1939 · 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
Filmography
- Outposts: Nothing Here is Yours · Producer
- Tribeca 25 · Self
- Ask E. Jean · Executive producer
- Manhood · Executive producer
- Children No More: Were and Are Gone · Producer
- Cutting Through Rocks · Executive producer
- Vanishing: A Love Story · Executive producer
- Chasing Roo · Executive producer
- The Path Forward · Executive producer
- After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home · Executive producer
- Death Without Mercy · Executive producer
- I Am Ready, Warden · Executive producer
- The ABCs of Book Banning · Producer, Director
- Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later · Executive producer
- Pay or Die · Executive producer
- Last Song from Kabul · Executive producer
- The Eternal Memory · Executive producer
- Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney · Executive producer
- Rosie's Theater Kids · Producer
- Mourning in Lod · Executive producer
- The Fire That Took Her · Executive producer
- Last Flight Home · Executive producer
- Anastasia · Executive producer
- Afghan Dreamers · Executive producer
- Alive in Bronze · Executive producer
- Omoiyari · Executive producer
- Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day · Executive producer
- Going to Pot: The High and Low of It · Executive producer
- A Life Too Short · Executive producer
- American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself · Executive producer
- My Father the Mover · Executive producer
- Finding the Way Home · Executive producer
- Liberty: Mother of Exiles · Executive producer
- Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America · Executive producer
- I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter · Executive producer
- Gay Chorus Deep South · Executive producer
- 17 Blocks · Executive producer
- St. Louis Superman · Executive producer
- The Emperor's Newest Clothes · Screenplay
- Bleed Out · Executive producer
- Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi · Executive producer
- A Dangerous Son · Executive producer
- The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling · Executive producer
- The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm · Executive producer
- RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee · Executive producer
- Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind · Executive producer
- Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show · Executive producer
- 15: A Quinceañera Story · Executive producer
- Arthur Miller: Writer · Executive producer
- Traffic Stop · Executive producer
- War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend · Executive producer
- Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge · Executive producer
- Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy · Executive producer
- The Words That Built America · Executive producer
- Warning: This Drug May Kill You · Executive producer
- I Am Evidence · Executive producer
- Meth Storm · Executive producer
- Mommy Dead and Dearest · Executive producer
- Becoming Warren Buffett · Executive producer
- Cries from Syria · Executive producer
- Risky Drinking · Executive producer
- Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing · Executive producer
- Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds · Executive producer
- Abortion: Stories Women Tell · Executive producer
- Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? · Executive producer
- Class Divide · Producer
- Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness · Executive producer
- Suited · Executive producer
- Jim: The James Foley Story · Executive producer
- Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper · Executive producer
- The Latin Explosion: A New America · Executive producer
- A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness · Executive producer
- Everything Is Copy · Executive producer
- Thought Crimes · Executive producer
- Living With Lincoln · Executive producer
- Cobain: Montage of Heck · Executive producer
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief · Executive producer
- Banksy Does New York · Executive producer
- Citizenfour · Executive producer
- Terror at the Mall · Executive producer