Sheila Nevins

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Female

Birthday 1939-04-06 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Sheila J. Nevins

Sheila Nevins

Biography

Nevins runs MTV Documentary Films 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. She joined MTV in 2019.

Known For

Producer

2024
2024
Death Without Mercy

as Executive Producer

2024
The Path Forward

as Executive Producer

2024
I Am Ready, Warden

as Executive Producer

2023
2023
Last Song from Kabul

as Executive Producer

2023
The Eternal Memory

as Executive Producer

2023
Mourning in Lod

as Executive Producer

2023
2023
Pay or Die

as Executive Producer

2022
Alive in Bronze

as Executive Producer

2022
Afghan Dreamers

as Executive Producer

2022
Last Flight Home

as Executive Producer

2022
Anastasia

as Executive Producer

2022
Omoiyari

as Executive Producer

2021
2021
A Life Too Short

as Executive Producer

2020
My Father the Mover

as Executive Producer

2019
Gay Chorus Deep South

as Executive Producer

2019
Liberty: Mother of Exiles

as Executive Producer

2019
Finding the Way Home

as Executive Producer

2019
St. Louis Superman

as Executive Producer

2019
17 Blocks

as Executive Producer

2018
2018
The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

as Executive Producer

2018
Bleed Out

as Executive Producer

2018
A Dangerous Son

as Executive Producer

2018
2017
Arthur Miller: Writer

as Executive Producer

2017
Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show

as Executive Producer

2017
Cries from Syria

as Executive Producer

2017
Meth Storm

as Executive Producer

2017
Mommy Dead and Dearest

as Executive Producer

2017
I Am Evidence

as Executive Producer

2017
Warning: This Drug May Kill You

as Executive Producer

2017
2017
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend

as Executive Producer

2017
Traffic Stop

as Executive Producer

2017
Becoming Warren Buffett

as Executive Producer

2017
The Words That Built America

as Executive Producer

2017
2017
15: A Quinceañera Story

as Executive Producer

2016
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?

as Executive Producer

2016
Suited

as Executive Producer

2016
Class Divide

as Producer

2016
Risky Drinking

as Executive Producer

2016
Jim: The James Foley Story

as Executive Producer

2016
2016
Abortion: Stories Women Tell

as Executive Producer

2015
Thought Crimes

as Executive Producer

2015
Cobain: Montage of Heck

as Executive Producer

2015
2015
Everything Is Copy

as Executive Producer

2015
Living With Lincoln

as Executive Producer

2014
Private Violence

as Executive Producer

2014
The Case Against 8

as Executive Producer

2014
Banksy Does New York

as Executive Producer

2014
Citizenfour

as Executive Producer

2014
Terror at the Mall

as Executive Producer

2013
Six by Sondheim

as Executive Producer

2013
Life According to Sam

as Executive Producer

2013
An Apology to Elephants

as Executive Producer

2012
2012
First Cousin Once Removed

as Executive Producer

2012
The Weight of the Nation

as Executive Producer

2011
The Loving Story

as Executive Producer

2011
Gloria: In Her Own Words

as Executive Producer

2011
Reagan

as Executive Producer

2011
Koran by Heart

as Executive Producer

2011
Journey Into Dyslexia

as Executive Producer

2011
Hot Coffee

as Executive Producer

2011
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks

as Executive Producer

2011
Mann v. Ford

as Executive Producer

2011
2011
Love Crimes Of Kabul

as Executive Producer

2010
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking

as Executive Producer

2010
Kevorkian

as Executive Producer

2010
Secrets of the Tribe

as Executive Producer

2010
For Neda

as Executive Producer

2009
Sergio

as Executive Producer

2009
The Trials of Ted Haggard

as Executive Producer

2009
2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

as Executive Producer

2009
2009
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags

as Executive Producer

2009
2009
The Alzheimer's Project

as Executive Producer

2008
Andrew Jenks, Room 335

as Executive Producer

2008
The Boys from Baghdad High

as Executive Producer

2008
2008
2008
Portraits of a Lady

as Executive Producer

2007
2007
Katie Morgan's Porn 101

as Executive Producer

2006
Baghdad ER

as Executive Producer

2006
Wide Awake

as Executive Producer

2005
Xiara's Song

as Executive Producer

2004
The End

as Executive Producer

2004
Last Letters Home

as Executive Producer

2004
Elaine Stritch at Liberty

as Executive Producer

2004
Looking For Fidel

as Executive Producer

2003
The Virtual Corpse

as Executive Producer

2003
Comandante

as Executive Producer

2003
Persona Non Grata

as Executive Producer

2003
And Along Came a Spider

as Executive Producer

2003
America Undercover

as Producer

2002
Journeys with George

as Executive Producer

2002
Thoth

as Executive Producer

2001
Southern Comfort

as Executive Producer

1999
American Hollow

as Executive Producer

1999
1998
Life of Crime 2

as Executive Producer

1998
1998
Kids Are Punny

as Executive Producer

1997
1997
4 Little Girls

as Executive Producer

1996
1996
The Celluloid Closet

as Executive Producer

1996
Prisoners of the War on Drugs

as Executive Producer

1995
1995
Taxicab Confessions

as Executive Producer

1994
1993
Mob Stories

as Executive Producer

1992
Educating Peter

as Producer

1992
Abortion: Desperate Choices

as Executive Producer

Director

2024

Writer

Creator

Braingames

as Creator