Sheila Nevins
Known for: Production
Born: April 6, 1939
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
179 movies · 12 TV shows, newest first
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Tribeca 25
2026
10.0
Ask E. Jean
2026
10.0
Manhood
2026
6.9
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
2025
7.5
Cutting Through Rocks
2025NR
Vanishing: A Love Story
2025
NR
Chasing Roo
2024
NR
The Path Forward
2024
NR
After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home
2024
8.0
Death Without Mercy
2024
6.1
I Am Ready, Warden
2024
6.3
The ABCs of Book Banning
2024
NR
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
2023
6.2
Pay or Die
2023
NR
Last Song from Kabul
2023
8.0
The Eternal Memory
2023
6.5
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
2023
NR
Rosie's Theater Kids
2023
NR
Mourning in Lod
2023
7.5
The Fire That Took Her
2022
6.8
Last Flight Home
2022
4.0
Anastasia
2022
NR
Afghan Dreamers
2022
NR
Alive in Bronze
2022
8.0
Omoiyari
2022
8.0
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
2021
4.7
Going to Pot: The High and Low of It
2021
6.0
A Life Too Short
2021
5.0
American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself
2020
10.0
My Father the Mover
2020
5.0
Finding the Way Home
2019
7.5
Liberty: Mother of Exiles
2019
6.4
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
2019
7.0
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
2019
3.3
Gay Chorus Deep South
2019
7.4
17 Blocks
2019
7.0
St. Louis Superman
2019
6.9
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
2018
7.7
Bleed Out
2018
6.0
Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
2018
6.8
A Dangerous Son
2018
7.2
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
2018
7.0
The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm
2018
NR
RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee
2018
7.9
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018
NR
Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show
2017
6.2
15: A Quinceañera Story
2017
7.1
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
6.1
Traffic Stop
2017
7.0
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
2017
6.9
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017
7.2
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
2017
6.0
The Words That Built America
2017
6.9
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
2017
6.4
I Am Evidence
2017
6.2
Meth Storm
2017
7.4
Mommy Dead and Dearest
2017
7.2
Becoming Warren Buffett
2017
7.2
Cries from Syria
2017
7.5
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2017
6.9
Risky Drinking
2016
6.8
Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing
2016
6.3
Abortion: Stories Women Tell
2016
5.0
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
2016
5.9
Class Divide
2016
6.7
Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
2016
6.8
Suited
2016
7.4
Jim: The James Foley Story
2016
7.7
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
2016
8.0
The Latin Explosion: A New America
2015
7.2
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
2015
7.4
Everything Is Copy
2015
6.2
Thought Crimes
2015
7.4
Living With Lincoln
2015
7.6
Cobain: Montage of Heck
2015
7.6
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
6.8
Banksy Does New York
2014
7.7
Citizenfour
2014
7.7
Terror at the Mall
2014
6.8
The Case Against 8
2014
7.7
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
2014
7.4
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
2014
5.2
Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert
2014
6.5
Private Violence
2014
7.1
Six by Sondheim
2013
7.1
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
2013
7.9
An Apology to Elephants
2013
6.9
Life According to Sam
2013
7.3
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
5.5
First Cousin Once Removed
2012
4.8
About Face: Supermodels Then and Now
2012
7.3
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
2012
2.0
The Weight of the Nation
2012
6.2
Mondays at Racine
2012
5.8
Koran by Heart
2011
7.0
Vito
2011
6.7
Gloria: In Her Own Words
2011
6.6
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
2011
3.8
Love Crimes Of Kabul
2011
6.9
Project Nim
2011
7.2
Hot Coffee
2011
6.7
Mann v. Ford
2011
5.7
Journey Into Dyslexia
2011
5.2
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
2011
6.9
The Loving Story
2011
6.1
Reagan
2011
2.8
No One Dies in Lily Dale
2011
7.4
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
2010
6.0
I Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences
2010
6.6
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010
5.7
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
2010
7.0
One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
2010
4.3
Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
2010
7.0
Kevorkian
2010
6.4
For Neda
2010
3.4
A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
2010
6.9
Secrets of the Tribe
2010
10.0
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags
2009
5.9
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
2009
5.6
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
5.5
Studs Terkel: Listening to America
2009
4.7
The Alzheimer's Project
2009
6.7
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
2009
6.2
The Final Inch
2009
4.3
The Trials of Ted Haggard
2009
7.7
Sergio
2009
6.9
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
9.0
Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
2009
4.8
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
2008
6.0
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
200810.0
Andrew Jenks, Room 335
2008
5.0
The Boys from Baghdad High
2008
NR
Portraits of a Lady
2008
5.4
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
2007
6.3
I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA
2007
6.1
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
2007
6.0
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
2007
4.7
Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi
2007
7.1
Baghdad ER
2006
7.5
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006
6.5
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
6.0
Wide Awake
2006
7.2
I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
2005
3.5
Xiara's Song
2005
3.5
A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story
2005
7.0
Last Letters Home
2004
7.0
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
2004
6.5
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
2004
9.1
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
2004
6.2
Looking for Fidel
2004
8.3
The End
2004
NR
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
2004
6.1
Persona Non Grata
2003
5.3
America Undercover
2003
6.6
Comandante
20038.0
The Virtual Corpse
2003
7.5
And Along Came a Spider
2002
NR
Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001
2002
5.6
Thoth
2002
6.5
Journeys with George
2002
7.1
Southern Comfort
2001
7.5
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000
7.0
Broken Child
2000
5.4
101 Rent Boys
2000
9.0
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000NR
Cancer: Evolution to Revolution
2000
6.3
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2000
7.3
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1999
6.3
The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years
1999
6.4
American Hollow
1999
7.4
Life of Crime 2
1998
6.3
Kids Are Punny
1998
7.7
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
1998
6.5
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
1998
6.3
Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
1997
NR
Twins: The Divided Self
1997
7.1
4 Little Girls
19977.0
The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row
1997
7.6
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996
NR
Without Pity: A Film About Abilities
1996NR
Memphis PD: War on the Streets
1996
7.2
The Celluloid Closet
1996
7.5
Prisoners of the War on Drugs
1996
6.4
5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids
1995
6.4
Taxicab Confessions
1995
5.5
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
1994
6.0
Mob Stories
1993
5.3
Abortion: Desperate Choices
1992
6.5
Educating Peter
1992
5.0
Real Sex
19907.0
Braingames
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