Sheila Nevins

Age: N/A | From: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

TV
Involvement

150

Movie
Involvement

Person Details

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Aliases: Sheila J. Nevins

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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Movie Involvements: 150

TV Involvements: 11

Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Average

Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Production

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2023	Executive Producer	Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later 2023-11-17 Movie
	Producer	The ABCs of Book Banning 2023-09-30 Movie
	Executive Producer	Last Song from Kabul 2023-09-01 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Eternal Memory 2023-08-11 Movie
	Executive Producer	Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney 2023-08-04 Movie
	Producer	Rosie's Theater Kids 2023-05-25 Movie
	Executive Producer	Mourning in Lod 2023-05-18 Movie
2022	Executive Producer	Pay or Die 2022-10-28 Movie
	Executive Producer	Last Flight Home 2022-10-07 Movie
	Executive Producer	Anastasia 2022-09-03 Movie
	Executive Producer	Afghan Dreamers 2022-07-07 Movie
	Executive Producer	Alive in Bronze 2022-06-08 Movie
2021	Executive Producer	Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day 2021-10-01 Movie
	Executive Producer	Going to Pot: The High and Low of It 2021-04-20 Movie
	Executive Producer	A Life Too Short 2021-01-22 Movie
2020	Executive Producer	American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself 2020-10-23 Movie
	Executive Producer	My Father the Mover 2020-03-27 Movie
2019	Executive Producer	Finding the Way Home 2019-12-08 Movie
	Executive Producer	Liberty: Mother of Exiles 2019-10-24 Movie
	Executive Producer	Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America 2019-08-14 Movie
	Executive Producer	I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter 2019-07-09 TV Show
	Executive Producer	Gay Chorus Deep South 2019-04-29 Movie
	Executive Producer	17 Blocks 2019-04-27 Movie
	Executive Producer	St. Louis Superman 2019-02-20 Movie
2018	Executive Producer	Bleed Out 2018-11-13 Movie
	Executive Producer	Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi 2018-10-29 Movie
	Executive Producer	A Dangerous Son 2018-05-07 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling 2018-03-26 TV Show
	Executive Producer	The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm 2018-01-27 Movie
	Executive Producer	RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee 2018-01-21 Movie
2017	Executive Producer	Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show 2017-12-24 Movie
	Executive Producer	15: A Quinceañera Story 2017-12-19 TV Show
	Executive Producer	Arthur Miller: Writer 2017-12-08 Movie
	Executive Producer	Traffic Stop 2017-11-14 Movie
	Executive Producer	War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend 2017-11-13 Movie
	Executive Producer	Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge 2017-11-06 TV Show
	Executive Producer	Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy 2017-07-24 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Words That Built America 2017-07-04 Movie
	Executive Producer	I Am Evidence 2017-06-15 Movie
	Executive Producer	Warning: This Drug May Kill You 2017-05-01 Movie
	Executive Producer	Mommy Dead and Dearest 2017-03-11 Movie
	Executive Producer	Meth Storm 2017-03-11 Movie
	Executive Producer	Becoming Warren Buffett 2017-01-30 Movie
	Executive Producer	Cries from Syria 2017-01-22 Movie
	Executive Producer	Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds 2017-01-11 Movie
2016	Executive Producer	Risky Drinking 2016-12-19 Movie
	Executive Producer	Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing 2016-11-21 Movie
	Executive Producer	Abortion: Stories Women Tell 2016-08-12 Movie
	Executive Producer	Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? 2016-08-01 Movie
	Producer	Class Divide 2016-04-18 Movie
	Executive Producer	Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness 2016-04-09 Movie
	Executive Producer	Suited 2016-01-25 Movie
	Executive Producer	Jim: The James Foley Story 2016-01-23 Movie
	Executive Producer	Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper 2016-01-23 Movie
2015	Executive Producer	The Latin Explosion: A New America 2015-11-16 Movie
	Executive Producer	A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness 2015-10-28 Movie
	Executive Producer	Everything Is Copy 2015-09-29 Movie
	Executive Producer	Thought Crimes 2015-05-11 Movie
	Executive Producer	Living With Lincoln 2015-04-13 Movie
	Executive Producer	Cobain: Montage of Heck 2015-03-23 Movie
	Executive Producer	Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief 2015-01-25 Movie
2014	Executive Producer	Banksy Does New York 2014-11-17 Movie
	Executive Producer	Citizenfour 2014-10-10 Movie
	Executive Producer	Terror at the Mall 2014-09-15 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Case Against 8 2014-06-06 Movie
	Executive Producer	All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State 2014-04-28 Movie
	Executive Producer	My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It) 2014-04-17 Movie
	Executive Producer	Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert 2014-03-17 Movie
	Executive Producer	Private Violence 2014-01-19 Movie
2013	Executive Producer	Six by Sondheim 2013-12-09 Movie
	Executive Producer	An Apology to Elephants 2013-04-13 Movie
	Executive Producer	Life According to Sam 2013-01-21 Movie
2012	Executive Producer	Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God 2012-11-16 Movie
	Executive Producer	First Cousin Once Removed 2012-10-09 Movie
	Executive Producer	About Face: Supermodels Then and Now 2012-07-23 Movie
	Executive Producer	Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present 2012-06-13 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Weight of the Nation 2012-05-14 TV Show
2011	Executive Producer	Koran by Heart 2011-10-24 Movie
	Executive Producer	Gloria: In Her Own Words 2011-08-15 Movie
	Executive Producer	There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane 2011-07-25 Movie
	Executive Producer	Love Crimes Of Kabul 2011-07-11 Movie
	Executive Producer	Hot Coffee 2011-06-27 Movie
	Executive Producer	Mann v. Ford 2011-06-03 Movie
	Executive Producer	Journey Into Dyslexia 2011-05-11 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Education of Dee Dee Ricks 2011-05-01 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Loving Story 2011-04-15 Movie
	Executive Producer	Reagan 2011-02-07 Movie
2010	Executive Producer	Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking 2010-12-10 Movie
	Executive Producer	I Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences 2010-10-26 Movie
	Executive Producer	If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise 2010-08-23 TV Show
	Executive Producer	No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike 2010-08-20 Movie
	Executive Producer	One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey 2010-08-13 Movie
	Executive Producer	Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County 2010-07-26 Movie
	Executive Producer	Kevorkian 2010-06-28 Movie
	Executive Producer	For Neda 2010-06-14 Movie
	Executive Producer	A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration 2010-01-31 Movie
	Executive Producer	Secrets of the Tribe 2010-01-22 Movie
2009	Executive Producer	Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags 2009-10-19 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant 2009-09-07 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Nine Lives of Marion Barry 2009-06-21 Movie
	Executive Producer	Studs Terkel: Listening to America 2009-05-15 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Alzheimer's Project 2009-05-10 TV Show
	Executive Producer	Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain 2009-04-28 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Trials of Ted Haggard 2009-01-29 Movie
	Executive Producer	Sergio 2009-01-20 Movie
	Executive Producer	I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale 2009-01-16 Movie
	Executive Producer	Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions? 2009-01-15 Movie
2008	Executive Producer	Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana 2008-11-13 Movie
	Executive Producer	Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery 2008-10-13 Movie
	Executive Producer	Andrew Jenks, Room 335 2008-01-15 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Boys from Baghdad High 2008-01-07 Movie
	Executive Producer	Portraits of a Lady 2008-01-01 Movie
2007	Executive Producer	Katie Morgan's Porn 101 2007-12-06 Movie
	Executive Producer	Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq 2007-09-09 Movie
	Executive Producer	Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater 2007-07-31 Movie
	Executive Producer	Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi 2007-01-25 Movie
2006	Executive Producer	Baghdad ER 2006-11-16 Movie
	Executive Producer	When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 2006-08-21 TV Show
	Executive Producer	Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters 2006-06-13 Movie
	Executive Producer	Wide Awake 2006-02-11 Movie
2005	Executive Producer	I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me 2005-11-12 Movie
	Executive Producer	Xiara's Song 2005-06-19 Movie
	Executive Producer	A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story 2005-01-11 Movie
2004	Executive Producer	Last Letters Home 2004-11-11 Movie
	Executive Producer	Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable 2004-09-13 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality 2004-06-17 Movie
	Executive Producer	Elaine Stritch at Liberty 2004-05-29 Movie
	Executive Producer	Looking For Fidel 2004-04-14 Movie
	Executive Producer	The End 2004-03-11 Movie
2003	Producer	America Undercover 2003-06-05 TV Show
	Executive Producer	Persona Non Grata 2003-06-05 Movie
	Executive Producer	And Along Came a Spider 2003-03-05 Movie
	Executive Producer	Comandante 2003-02-14 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Virtual Corpse 2003-01-26 Movie
2002	Executive Producer	Thoth 2002-05-10 Movie
	Executive Producer	Journeys with George 2002-03-08 Movie
2001	Executive Producer	Southern Comfort 2001-01-25 Movie
2000	Executive Producer	Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks 2000-11-30 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story 2000-05-31 Movie
1999	Executive Producer	Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales 1999-07-15 Movie
	Executive Producer	American Hollow 1999-05-26 Movie
1998	Executive Producer	Life of Crime 2 1998-12-15 Movie
	Executive Producer	Kids Are Punny 1998-12-06 Movie
	Executive Producer	Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth 1998-10-21 Movie
	Executive Producer	Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt? 1998-03-01 Movie
1997	Producer	Daughter of the Bride 1997-11-05 Movie
	Executive Producer	4 Little Girls 1997-07-09 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row 1997-03-10 Movie
1996	Executive Producer	Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996-12-03 Movie
	Executive Producer	Without Pity: A Film About Abilities 1996-10-08 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Celluloid Closet 1996-01-30 Movie
	Executive Producer	Prisoners of the War on Drugs 1996-01-08 Movie
1995	Executive Producer	5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids 1995-03-11 Movie
	Executive Producer	Taxicab Confessions 1995-01-01 TV Show
1994	Executive Producer	Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island 1994-01-01 Movie
1993	Executive Producer	Mob Stories 1993-03-08 Movie
1992	Executive Producer	Abortion: Desperate Choices 1992-05-05 Movie
	Producer	Educating Peter 1992-01-01 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv