Sheila Nevins

Known for ProductionBorn 1939-04-06 (age 87)Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Manhood

Ask E. Jean

Afghan Dreamers

My Father the Mover

Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags

Andrew Jenks, Room 335

Elaine Stritch at Liberty

Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

The End

Death Without Mercy

Omoiyari

Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day

The Eternal Memory

The Latin Explosion: A New America

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

The Virtual Corpse

An Apology to Elephants

Bleed Out

Citizenfour

Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper

All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State

Terror at the Mall

Sergio

Cobain: Montage of Heck

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

Cutting Through Rocks

The Fire That Took Her

Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

Liberty: Mother of Exiles

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Everything Is Copy

17 Blocks

Jim: The James Foley Story

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Living With Lincoln

My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)

Mommy Dead and Dearest

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

And Along Came a Spider

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

Prisoners of the War on Drugs

Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

Cries from Syria

Becoming Warren Buffett

Life of Crime 2