Sheila Nevins
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Born 1939-04-06
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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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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Producing
59 credits
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
Citizenfour
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Manhood
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
The Words That Built America
The Eternal Memory
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
The Celluloid Closet
Southern Comfort
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
Chasing Roo
Six by Sondheim
The Latin Explosion: A New America
4 Little Girls
Project Nim
American Hollow
15: A Quinceañera Story
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
The Alzheimer's Project
Meth Storm
101 Rent Boys
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
Everything Is Copy
Secrets of the Tribe
Ask E. Jean
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
Traffic Stop
Thoth
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
Vito
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Kids Are Punny
Pay or Die
Mommy Dead and Dearest
The Weight of the Nation
Taxicab Confessions
Cutting Through Rocks
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
Arthur Miller: Writer
About Face: Supermodels Then and Now
America Undercover
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
Hot Coffee
Gay Chorus Deep South
Looking for Fidel
Becoming Warren Buffett
Terror at the Mall
Reagan
Mourning in Lod
Death Without Mercy
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