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Sheila Nevins

Known for: Production

Biography: 1939-04-06 (86 years old)

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 ing 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 ed 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 ed MTV in 2019.

Filmography

all 173

Producer 170

Movies 163

TV Shows 10

Screenplay 1

Creator 1

Executive Producer

Sheila Nevins

Biography

Filmography

all 173

Producer 170

Movies 163

TV Shows 10

Screenplay 1

Creator 1

Chasing Roo (2024)

The Path Forward (2024)

After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home (2024)

Death Without Mercy (2024)

I Am Ready, Warden (2024)

The ABCs of Book Banning (2024)

Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later (2023)

Pay or Die (2023)

Last Song from Kabul (2023)

The Eternal Memory (2023)

Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney (2023)

Rosie's Theater Kids (2023)

Mourning in Lod (2023)

Last Flight Home (2022)

Anastasia (2022)

Afghan Dreamers (2022)

Alive in Bronze (2022)

Omoiyari (2022)

Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day (2021)

Going to Pot: The High and Low of It (2021)

A Life Too Short (2021)

American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself (2020)

My Father the Mover (2020)

Finding the Way Home (2019)

Liberty: Mother of Exiles (2019)

Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America (2019)

I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter (2019)

Gay Chorus Deep South (2019)

17 Blocks (2019)

St. Louis Superman (2019)

The Emperor's Newest Clothes (2018)

Bleed Out (2018)

Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi (2018)

A Dangerous Son (2018)

The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018)

The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm (2018)

RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee (2018)

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)

Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show (2017)

Arthur Miller: Writer (2017)

Traffic Stop (2017)

War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend (2017)

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge (2017)

Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy (2017)

The Words That Built America (2017)

I Am Evidence (2017)

Warning: This Drug May Kill You (2017)

Meth Storm (2017)

Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)

Becoming Warren Buffett (2017)

Cries from Syria (2017)

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017)

Risky Drinking (2016)

Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing (2016)

Abortion: Stories Women Tell (2016)

Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? (2016)

Class Divide (2016)

Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (2016)

Suited (2016)

Jim: The James Foley Story (2016)

Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper (2016)

The Latin Explosion: A New America (2015)

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015)

Everything Is Copy (2015)

Thought Crimes (2015)

Living With Lincoln (2015)

Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)

Banksy Does New York (2014)

Citizenfour (2014)

Terror at the Mall (2014)