Sheila Nevins

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1939-04-06
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  • school Known for: Production
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  • info Birth Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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Arthur Miller: Writer

2017-12-08

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Six by Sondheim

2013-12-09

2

Private Violence

2014-01-19

2

Sergio

2009-01-20

2

Going to Pot: The High and Low of It

2021-04-20

2

The Loving Story

2011-04-15

2

A Life Too Short

2021-01-22

2

My Father the Mover

2020-03-27

2

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

2012-11-16

2

The End

2004-03-11

2

Gloria: In Her Own Words

2011-08-15

2

Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?

2016-08-01

2

The Trials of Ted Haggard

2009-01-29

2

Journeys with George

2002-03-08

2

Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County

2010-07-26

2

Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi

2007-01-25

2

Reagan

2011-02-07

2

Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking

2010-12-10

2

Suited

2016-01-25

2

Gay Chorus Deep South

2019-04-29

2

Koran by Heart

2011-10-24

2

Kevorkian

2010-06-28

2

About Face: Supermodels Then and Now

2012-07-23

2

Life of Crime 2

1998-12-15

2

Journey Into Dyslexia

2011-05-11

2

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

2009-09-07

2

Hot Coffee

2011-06-27

2

First Cousin Once Removed

2012-10-09

2

Life According to Sam

2013-01-21

2

Andrew Jenks, Room 335

2008-01-15

2

The Education of Dee Dee Ricks

2011-05-01

2

One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey

2010-08-13

2

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

2012-06-13

2

The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality

2004-06-17

2

Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?

1998-03-01

2

Last Letters Home

2004-11-11

2

The Case Against 8

2014-06-06

2

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

2006-06-13

2

An Apology to Elephants

2013-04-13

2

Rosie's Theater Kids

2023-05-25

2

Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert

2014-03-17

2

All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State

2014-04-28

2

Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney

2023-08-04

2

The ABCs of Book Banning

2024-02-16

2

Last Song from Kabul

2023-09-01

2

Mourning in Lod

2023-05-18

2

Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later

2023-11-17

2

The Eternal Memory

2023-08-11

2

Afghan Dreamers

2022-07-07

2

Alive in Bronze

2022-06-08

2

Educating Peter

1992-01-01

2

Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride

1997-11-05

2

Baghdad ER

2006-11-16

2

The ABCs of Book Banning

2024-02-16

2

Mob Stories

1993-03-08

2

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2009-01-16

2

Elaine Stritch at Liberty

2004-05-29

2

The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

2009-06-21

2

Banksy Does New York

2014-11-17

2

Studs Terkel: Listening to America

2009-05-15

2

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

2015-01-25

2

Southern Comfort

2001-01-25

2

Citizenfour

2014-10-10

2

Thought Crimes

2015-05-11

2

Cobain: Montage of Heck

2015-03-23

2

No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

2010-08-20

2

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

2014-04-17

2

Mann v. Ford

2011-06-03

2

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

2007-09-09

2

The Boys from Baghdad High

2008-01-07

2

Without Pity: A Film About Abilities

1996-10-08

2

Thoth

2002-05-10

2

Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags

2009-10-19

2

Class Divide

2016-04-18

2

Terror at the Mall

2014-09-15

2

The Latin Explosion: A New America

2015-11-16

2

Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day

2021-10-01

2

Anastasia

2022-09-03

2

Last Flight Home

2022-10-07

2

Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show

2017-12-24

2

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

2018-01-19

2

Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

1998-10-21

2

The Celluloid Closet

1996-01-30

2

There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane

2011-07-25

2

Death Without Mercy

2024-05-03

2

I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA

2007-11-17

2

Everything Is Copy

2015-09-29

2

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

1994-01-01

2

Secrets of the Tribe

2010-01-22

2

Kids Are Punny

1998-12-06

2

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

2017-01-11

2

Risky Drinking

2016-12-19

2

Cries from Syria

2017-01-22

2

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

2015-10-28

2

A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story

2005-01-11

2

A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration

2010-01-31

2

Jim: The James Foley Story

2016-01-23

2

Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing

2016-11-21

2

Prisoners of the War on Drugs

1996-01-08

2

Xiara's Song

2005-06-19

2

Meth Storm

2017-03-11

2

The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row

1997-03-10

2

Mommy Dead and Dearest

2017-03-11

2

The Virtual Corpse

2003-01-26

2

I Am Evidence

2017-06-15

2

Warning: This Drug May Kill You

2017-05-01

2

Persona Non Grata

2003-06-05

2

Looking For Fidel

2004-04-14

2

Comandante

2003-02-14

2

Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy

2017-07-24

2

War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend

2017-11-13

2

The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

2018-01-27

2

Traffic Stop

2017-11-14

2

Pay or Die

2023-11-01

2

Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater

2007-07-31

2

Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain

2009-04-28

2

Katie Morgan's Porn 101

2007-12-06

2

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

2009-01-15

2

Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper

2016-01-23

2

Omoiyari

2022-03-14

2

Bleed Out

2018-11-13

2

Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi

2018-10-29

2

The Emperor's Newest Clothes

2018-11-15

2

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

1996-12-03

2

After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home

2024-08-29

2

Liberty: Mother of Exiles

2019-10-24

2

A Dangerous Son

2018-05-07

2

Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America

2019-08-14

2

Finding the Way Home

2019-12-08

2

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

2000-05-31

2

And Along Came a Spider

2003-03-05

2

St. Louis Superman

2019-02-20

2

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

2000-11-30

2

For Neda

2010-06-14

2

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

2008-10-13

2

RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee

2018-01-21

2

I Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences

2010-10-26

2

Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable

2004-09-13

2

Love Crimes Of Kabul

2011-07-11

2

4 Little Girls

1997-07-09

2

5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids

1995-03-11

2

Abortion: Stories Women Tell

2016-08-12

2

Abortion: Desperate Choices

1992-05-05

2

Becoming Warren Buffett

2017-01-30

2

American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

2020-10-23

2

Living With Lincoln

2015-04-13

2

American Hollow

1999-05-26

2

Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales

1999-12-06

2

I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me

2005-11-12

2

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

2016-04-09

2

Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

2008-11-13

2

Portraits of a Lady

2008-01-01

2

The Words That Built America

2017-07-04

2

Wide Awake

2006-02-11

2

17 Blocks

2019-04-27

2

The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years

2000-03-11

2

The Path Forward

2024-09-27

2

Taxicab Confessions

1995-01-01

2

America Undercover

2003-06-05

2

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

2006-08-21

2

The Weight of the Nation

2012-05-14

2

The Alzheimer's Project

2009-05-10

2

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge

2017-11-06

2

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

2019-07-09

2

The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling

2018-03-26

2

15: A Quinceañera Story

2017-12-19

2

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

2010-08-23

2

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