Sheila Nevins
Production
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.
Known for
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movieAsk E. Jean
2026
Executive Producer
movieManhood
2026
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movieCutting Through Rocks
2025
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Vanishing: A Love Story
2025
Executive Producer
movieChasing Roo
2024
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movieThe Path Forward
2024
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movieAfter the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home
2024
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movieDeath Without Mercy
2024
Executive Producer
movieI Am Ready, Warden
2024
Executive Producer
movieBeyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
2023
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moviePay or Die
2023
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movieLast Song from Kabul
2023
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movieThe Eternal Memory
2023
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movieBirthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
2023
Executive Producer
movieRosie's Theater Kids
2023
Producer
movieMourning in Lod
2023
Executive Producer
movieThe Fire That Took Her
2022
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movieLast Flight Home
2022
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movieAnastasia
2022
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movieAfghan Dreamers
2022
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movieAlive in Bronze
2022
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movieOmoiyari
2022
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movieLynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
2021
Executive Producer
movieGoing to Pot: The High and Low of It
2021
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movieA Life Too Short
2021
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movieAmerican Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself
2020
Executive Producer
movieMy Father the Mover
2020
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movieFinding the Way Home
2019
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movieLiberty: Mother of Exiles
2019
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movieAlternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
2019
Executive Producer
tvI Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
2019
Executive Producer
movieGay Chorus Deep South
2019
Executive Producer
movie17 Blocks
2019
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movieSt. Louis Superman
2019
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movieBleed Out
2018
Executive Producer
movieOutside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
2018
Executive Producer
movieA Dangerous Son
2018
Executive Producer
tvThe Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
2018
Executive Producer
movieThe Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm
2018
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movieRX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee
2018
Executive Producer
movieRobin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018
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movieClassical Baby: The Lullaby Show
2017
Executive Producer
tv15: A Quinceañera Story
2017
Executive Producer
movieArthur Miller: Writer
2017
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movieTraffic Stop
2017
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movieWar Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
2017
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tvRolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017
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movieDiana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
2017
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movieThe Words That Built America
2017
Executive Producer
movieWarning: This Drug May Kill You
2017
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movieI Am Evidence
2017
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movieMeth Storm
2017
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movieMommy Dead and Dearest
2017
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movieBecoming Warren Buffett
2017
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movieCries from Syria
2017
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movieBright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2017
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movieRisky Drinking
2016
Executive Producer
movieMarathon: The Patriots Day Bombing
2016
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movieAbortion: Stories Women Tell
2016
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movieMeet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
2016
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movieClass Divide
2016
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movieSuited
2016
Executive Producer
movieJim: The James Foley Story
2016
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movieNothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
2016
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movieThe Latin Explosion: A New America
2015
Executive Producer
movieA Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
2015
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movieEverything Is Copy
2015
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movieThought Crimes
2015
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movieLiving With Lincoln
2015
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movieCobain: Montage of Heck
2015
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movieGoing Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
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movieBanksy Does New York
2014
Executive Producer
movieCitizenfour
2014
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movieTerror at the Mall
2014
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movieThe Case Against 8
2014
Executive Producer
movieAll About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
2014
Executive Producer
movieMy Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
2014
Executive Producer
moviePaycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert
2014
Executive Producer
moviePrivate Violence
2014
Executive Producer
movieSix by Sondheim
2013
Executive Producer
movieCrisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
2013
Executive Producer
movieAn Apology to Elephants
2013
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movieLife According to Sam
2013
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movieMea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
Executive Producer
movieFirst Cousin Once Removed
2012
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movieAbout Face: Supermodels Then and Now
2012
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movieMarina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
2012
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tvThe Weight of the Nation
2012
Executive Producer
movieKoran by Heart
2011
Executive Producer
movieVito
2011
Executive Producer
movieGloria: In Her Own Words
2011
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movieThere's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
2011
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movieLove Crimes Of Kabul
2011
Executive Producer
movieProject Nim
2011
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movieHot Coffee
2011
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movieMann v. Ford
2011
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movieJourney Into Dyslexia
2011
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movieThe Education of Dee Dee Ricks
2011
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movieThe Loving Story
2011
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movieReagan
2011
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movieCarrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
2010
Executive Producer
movieI Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences
2010
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tvIf God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010
Executive Producer
movieNo Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
2010
Executive Producer
movieOne Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
2010
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movieHomeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
2010
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movieKevorkian
2010
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movieFor Neda
2010
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movieA Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
2010
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movieSecrets of the Tribe
2010
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movieSchmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags
2009
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movieThe Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
2009
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movieThe Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
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movieStuds Terkel: Listening to America
2009
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tvThe Alzheimer's Project
2009
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movieMake Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
2009
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movieThe Final Inch
2009
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movieThe Trials of Ted Haggard
2009
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movieSergio
2009
Executive Producer
movieI Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Executive Producer
movieKatie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
2009
Executive Producer
movieDirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
2008
Executive Producer
movieSection 60: Arlington National Cemetery
2008
Executive Producer
Andrew Jenks, Room 335
2008
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movieThe Boys from Baghdad High
2008
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moviePortraits of a Lady
2008
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movieKatie Morgan's Porn 101
2007
Executive Producer
movieI Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA
2007
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movieAlive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
2007
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movieMr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
2007
Executive Producer
movieFriends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi
2007
Executive Producer
movieBaghdad ER
2006
Executive Producer
tvWhen the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006
Executive Producer
movieBoffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
Executive Producer
movieWide Awake
2006
Executive Producer
movieI Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
2005
Executive Producer
movieXiara's Song
2005
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movieA Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story
2005
Executive Producer
movieLast Letters Home
2004
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movieIndian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
2004
Executive Producer
movieThe Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
2004
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movieElaine Stritch at Liberty
2004
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movieLooking for Fidel
2004
Executive Producer
movieThe End
2004
Executive Producer
movieBeah: A Black Woman Speaks
2004
Executive Producer
moviePersona Non Grata
2003
Executive Producer
tvAmerica Undercover
2003
Producer
movieComandante
2003
Executive Producer
The Virtual Corpse
2003
Executive Producer
movieAnd Along Came a Spider
2002
Executive Producer
movieThrough a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001
2002
Executive Producer
movieThoth
2002
Executive Producer
movieJourneys with George
2002
Executive Producer
movieSouthern Comfort
2001
Executive Producer
movieHalf Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000
Executive Producer
movieBroken Child
2000
Producer
movie101 Rent Boys
2000
Executive Producer
movieThe Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Executive Producer
Cancer: Evolution to Revolution
2000
Executive Producer
movieThe Eyes of Tammy Faye
2000
Producer
movieGoodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1999
Executive Producer
movieThe Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years
1999
Executive Producer
movieAmerican Hollow
1999
Executive Producer
movieLife of Crime 2
1998
Executive Producer
movieKids Are Punny
1998
Executive Producer
movieLenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
1998
Executive Producer
movieMumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
1998
Executive Producer
movieTwins: The Divided Self
1997
Executive Producer
movie4 Little Girls
1997
Executive Producer
The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row
1997
Executive Producer
movieParadise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996
Executive Producer
movieWithout Pity: A Film About Abilities
1996
Executive Producer
Memphis PD: War on the Streets
1996
Executive Producer
movieThe Celluloid Closet
1996
Executive Producer
moviePrisoners of the War on Drugs
1996
Executive Producer
movie5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids
1995
Executive Producer
tvTaxicab Confessions
1995
Executive Producer
movieLock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
1994
Executive Producer
movieMob Stories
1993
Executive Producer
movieAbortion: Desperate Choices
1992
Executive Producer
movieEducating Peter
1992
Producer
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tvReal Sex
1990
Creator
Braingames
Creator
Acting1
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movieThe Emperor's Newest Clothes
2018
Screenplay