Sheila Nevins
female
Born on April 06, 1939 (86 years old)
From Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Known for Production
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.
Cast Credits
Crew Credits
- 2025
- 2024
The ABCs of Book Banning
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Producer
2024
The ABCs of Book Banning
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Director
2024
Death Without Mercy
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Executive Producer
2024
After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home
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Executive Producer
2024
The Path Forward
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Executive Producer
2024
I Am Ready, Warden
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Executive Producer
2024
Chasing Roo
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Executive Producer
2024
- 2023
Rosie's Theater Kids
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Producer
2023
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
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Executive Producer
2023
Last Song from Kabul
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Executive Producer
2023
Mourning in Lod
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Executive Producer
2023
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
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Executive Producer
2023
The Eternal Memory
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Executive Producer
2023
Pay or Die
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Executive Producer
2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
Gay Chorus Deep South
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Executive Producer
2019
Liberty: Mother of Exiles
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Executive Producer
2019
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
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Executive Producer
2019
Finding the Way Home
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Executive Producer
2019
St. Louis Superman
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Executive Producer
2019
17 Blocks
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Executive Producer
2019
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
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Executive Producer
2019
- 2018
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
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Executive Producer
2018
The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm
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Executive Producer
2018
Bleed Out
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Executive Producer
2018
Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
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Executive Producer
2018
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
as
Screenplay
2018
A Dangerous Son
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Executive Producer
2018
RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee
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Executive Producer
2018
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
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Executive Producer
2018
- 2017
Arthur Miller: Writer
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Executive Producer
2017
Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show
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Executive Producer
2017
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
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Executive Producer
2017
Cries from Syria
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Executive Producer
2017
Meth Storm
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Executive Producer
2017
Mommy Dead and Dearest
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Executive Producer
2017
I Am Evidence
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Executive Producer
2017
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
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Executive Producer
2017
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
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Executive Producer
2017
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
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Executive Producer
2017
Traffic Stop
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Executive Producer
2017
Becoming Warren Buffett
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Executive Producer
2017
The Words That Built America
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Executive Producer
2017
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
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Executive Producer
2017
15: A Quinceañera Story
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Executive Producer
2017
- 2016
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
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Executive Producer
2016
Suited
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Executive Producer
2016
Class Divide
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Producer
2016
Risky Drinking
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Executive Producer
2016
Jim: The James Foley Story
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Executive Producer
2016
Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing
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Executive Producer
2016
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
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Executive Producer
2016
Abortion: Stories Women Tell
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Executive Producer
2016
Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
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Executive Producer
2016
- 2015
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
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Executive Producer
2015
Thought Crimes
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Executive Producer
2015
Cobain: Montage of Heck
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Executive Producer
2015
The Latin Explosion: A New America
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Executive Producer
2015
Everything Is Copy
as
Executive Producer
2015
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
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Executive Producer
2015
Living With Lincoln
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Executive Producer
2015
- 2014
Private Violence
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Executive Producer
2014
The Case Against 8
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Executive Producer
2014
Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert
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Executive Producer
2014
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
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Executive Producer
2014
Banksy Does New York
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Executive Producer
2014
Citizenfour
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Executive Producer
2014
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
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Executive Producer
2014
Terror at the Mall
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Executive Producer
2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
The Loving Story
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Executive Producer
2011
Gloria: In Her Own Words
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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
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Executive Producer
2011
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
as
Executive Producer
2011
Love Crimes Of Kabul
as
Executive Producer
2011
Project Nim
as
Executive Producer
2011
- 2010
Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
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Executive Producer
2010
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
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Executive Producer
2010
Kevorkian
as
Executive Producer
2010
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One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
as
Executive Producer
2010
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
as
Executive Producer
2010
Secrets of the Tribe
as
Executive Producer
2010
A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
as
Executive Producer
2010
For Neda
as
Executive Producer
2010
I Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences
as
Executive Producer
2010
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
as
Executive Producer
2010
- 2009
Sergio
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Executive Producer
2009
The Trials of Ted Haggard
as
Executive Producer
2009
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
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Executive Producer
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as
Executive Producer
2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
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Executive Producer
2009
Studs Terkel: Listening to America
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Executive Producer
2009
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags
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Executive Producer
2009
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
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Executive Producer
2009
Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
as
Executive Producer
2009
The Alzheimer's Project
as
Executive Producer
2009
- 2008
- 2007
Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi
as
Executive Producer
2007
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
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Executive Producer
2007
I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA
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Executive Producer
2007
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
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Executive Producer
2007
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
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Executive Producer
2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
The End
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Executive Producer
2004
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
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Executive Producer
2004
Last Letters Home
as
Executive Producer
2004
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
as
Executive Producer
2004
Looking for Fidel
as
Executive Producer
2004
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
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Executive Producer
2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998
- 1997
- 1996
- 1995
- 1994
- 1993
- 1992
