Sheila Nevins
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.
Arthur Miller: Writer
(Executive Producer)
Six by Sondheim
(Executive Producer)
Private Violence
(Executive Producer)
Sergio
(Executive Producer)
Going to Pot: The High and Low of It
(Executive Producer)
The Loving Story
(Executive Producer)
My Father the Mover
(Executive Producer)
A Life Too Short
(Executive Producer)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
(Executive Producer)
The End
(Executive Producer)
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
(Executive Producer)
The Trials of Ted Haggard
(Executive Producer)
Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
(Executive Producer)
Journeys with George
(Executive Producer)
Gloria: In Her Own Words
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Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi
(Executive Producer)
Reagan
(Executive Producer)
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
(Executive Producer)
Suited
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Gay Chorus Deep South
(Executive Producer)
Koran by Heart
(Executive Producer)
Kevorkian
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About Face: Supermodels Then and Now
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Life of Crime 2
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Journey Into Dyslexia
(Executive Producer)
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
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Hot Coffee
(Executive Producer)
First Cousin Once Removed
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Life According to Sam
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Andrew Jenks, Room 335
(Executive Producer)
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
(Executive Producer)
One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
(Executive Producer)
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
(Executive Producer)
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
(Executive Producer)
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
(Executive Producer)
Last Letters Home
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The Case Against 8
(Executive Producer)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
(Executive Producer)
An Apology to Elephants
(Executive Producer)
Rosie's Theater Kids
(Producer)
Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert
(Executive Producer)
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
(Executive Producer)
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
(Executive Producer)
Last Song from Kabul
(Executive Producer)
The ABCs of Book Banning
(Producer)
The Eternal Memory
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Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
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Mourning in Lod
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Alive in Bronze
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Afghan Dreamers
(Executive Producer)
Educating Peter
(Producer)
Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
(Producer)
Baghdad ER
(Executive Producer)
The ABCs of Book Banning
(Director)
Mob Stories
(Executive Producer)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
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Elaine Stritch at Liberty
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The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
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Banksy Does New York
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Studs Terkel: Listening to America
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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
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Southern Comfort
(Executive Producer)
Citizenfour
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Thought Crimes
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Cobain: Montage of Heck
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My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
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No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
(Executive Producer)
Mann v. Ford
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Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
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The Boys from Baghdad High
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Without Pity: A Film About Abilities
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Thoth
(Executive Producer)
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags
(Executive Producer)
Class Divide
(Producer)
Terror at the Mall
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The Latin Explosion: A New America
(Executive Producer)
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
(Executive Producer)
Anastasia
(Executive Producer)
Last Flight Home
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Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show
(Executive Producer)
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
(Executive Producer)
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
(Executive Producer)
The Celluloid Closet
(Executive Producer)
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
(Executive Producer)
Death Without Mercy
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I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA
(Executive Producer)
Everything Is Copy
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Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
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Secrets of the Tribe
(Executive Producer)
Kids Are Punny
(Executive Producer)
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
(Executive Producer)
Risky Drinking
(Executive Producer)
Cries from Syria
(Executive Producer)
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
(Executive Producer)
A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story
(Executive Producer)
A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
(Executive Producer)
Jim: The James Foley Story
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Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing
(Executive Producer)
Prisoners of the War on Drugs
(Executive Producer)
Xiara's Song
(Executive Producer)
Meth Storm
(Executive Producer)
The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row
(Executive Producer)
Mommy Dead and Dearest
(Executive Producer)
The Virtual Corpse
(Executive Producer)
I Am Evidence
(Executive Producer)
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
(Executive Producer)
Persona Non Grata
(Executive Producer)
Comandante
(Executive Producer)
Looking for Fidel
(Executive Producer)
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
(Executive Producer)
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
(Executive Producer)
The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm
(Executive Producer)
Traffic Stop
(Executive Producer)
Pay or Die
(Executive Producer)
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
(Executive Producer)
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
(Executive Producer)
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
(Executive Producer)
Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
(Executive Producer)
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
(Executive Producer)
Omoiyari
(Executive Producer)
Bleed Out
(Executive Producer)
Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
(Executive Producer)
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
(Screenplay)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
(Executive Producer)
After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home
(Executive Producer)
Liberty: Mother of Exiles
(Executive Producer)
A Dangerous Son
(Executive Producer)
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
(Executive Producer)
Finding the Way Home
(Executive Producer)
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
(Executive Producer)
And Along Came a Spider
(Executive Producer)
St. Louis Superman
(Executive Producer)
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
(Executive Producer)
For Neda
(Executive Producer)
RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee
(Executive Producer)
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
(Executive Producer)
I Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences
(Executive Producer)
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
(Executive Producer)
Love Crimes Of Kabul
(Executive Producer)
5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids
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4 Little Girls
(Executive Producer)
Abortion: Stories Women Tell
(Executive Producer)
Abortion: Desperate Choices
(Executive Producer)
Becoming Warren Buffett
(Executive Producer)
American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself
(Executive Producer)
Living With Lincoln
(Executive Producer)
American Hollow
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Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
(Executive Producer)
I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
(Executive Producer)
Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
(Executive Producer)
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
(Executive Producer)
Portraits of a Lady
(Executive Producer)
The Words That Built America
(Executive Producer)
Wide Awake
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17 Blocks
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The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years
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The Path Forward
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I Am Ready, Warden
(Executive Producer)
Chasing Roo
(Executive Producer)
Broken Child
(Producer)
You'll Be Happier
(Executive Producer)
Project Nim
(Executive Producer)
Twins: The Divided Self
(Executive Producer)
Ask E. Jean
(Executive Producer)
Taxicab Confessions
(Executive Producer)
America Undercover
(Producer)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
(Executive Producer)
The Weight of the Nation
(Executive Producer)
The Alzheimer's Project
(Executive Producer)
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
(Executive Producer)
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
(Executive Producer)
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
(Executive Producer)
15: A Quinceañera Story
(Executive Producer)
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
(Executive Producer)
Braingames
(Creator)