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Sheila Nevins
Producer, Director, Actor, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn April 6, 1939 (86 years)
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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Filmography
| 2025 | Cutting Through Rocks · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | I am Ready, Warden · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Chasing Roo · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Death Without Mercy · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Last Song from Kabul · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | The Eternal Memory · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Mourning in Lod · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Pay or Die · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | The Fire That Took Her · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Last Flight Home · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Favorite Daughter · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Anastasia · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Afghan Dreamers · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | ALIVE IN BRONZE: Huey P. Newton · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | More Than I Want to Remember · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Art & Krimes by Krimes · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Ascension · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Bree Wayy: Promise Witness Remembrance · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day' · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | R.I.P. T-Shirts · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Going to Pot: The High & Low of It · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Each and Every Day · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | A Life Too Short · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Finding Yingying · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | 76 Days · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | My Father the Mover · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Finding the Way Home · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Gay Chorus Deep South · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | 17 Blocks · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Liberty: Mother of Exiles · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Who Killed Garrett Phillips? · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | St. Louis Superman · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | Bleed Out · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | A Dangerous Son · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | 15: A Quinceañera Story (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | I Am Evidence · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Arthur Miller: Writer · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Meth Storm · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | 32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Baltimore Rising · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Traffic Stop · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | The Words That Built America · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Warning: This Drug May Kill You · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Rock and a Hard Place · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Mommy Dead and Dearest · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Cries from Syria · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Becoming Warren Buffett · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Risky Drinking · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Solitary · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Every Brilliant Thing · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Jim: The James Foley Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Abortion: Stories Women Tell · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Suited · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Brillo Box (3 ¢ off) · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Ebola: The Doctors' Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | The Latin Explosion: A New America · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Everything Is Copy · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Bolshoi Babylon · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Larry Kramer in Love and Anger · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014 · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Living with Lincoln · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Cobain: Montage of Heck · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Saving My Tomorrow (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | The Case Against 8 · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Banksy Does New York · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Private Violence · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Citizenfour · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Terror at the Mall · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | The Club · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | My Depression · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life and Times of Katrina Gilbert · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Sex On// (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Six by Sondheim · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Inside Out · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Fall to Grace · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | The Cheshire Murders · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | An Apology to Elephants · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Life According to Sam · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | In Vogue: The Editor's Eye · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | First Cousin Once Removed · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Don't Divorce Me! Kids' Rules for Parents on Divorce · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | About Face: Supermodels Then and Now · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Hard Times: Lost on Long Island · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | The Weight of the Nation (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Ethel · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Cathouse: Frisky Business · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Koran by Heart · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Vito · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Gloria: In Her Own Words · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Project Nim · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Love Crimes of Kabul · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Hot Coffee · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Bobby Fischer Against the World · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Journey Into Dyslexia · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | The Education of Dee Dee Ricks · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | The Loving Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Triangle: Remembering the Fire · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Reagan · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | No One Dies in Lily Dale · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Cathouse: Welcome Aboard · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Top Ten Monks · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Cathouse: Cat Call · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Mann V. Ford · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Wartorn: 1861-2010 · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | I Can't Do This But I Can Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | The Battle for Marjah · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | The Fence · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Poster Girl · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Kevorkian · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | For Neda · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | El espiritu de la salsa · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Secrets of the Tribe · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Cathouse: Sex, Guys and Videotape · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | The Nine Lives of Marion Barry · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Studs Terkel: Listening to America · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Hard Times for an American Girl: The Great Depression · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | The Alzheimer's Project (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Youthh Knows No Pain · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Right America: Feeling Wronged - Some Voices from the Campaign Trail · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | The Trials of Ted Haggard · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Sergio · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Katie Morgan's Sex Tips: Questions, Anyone? · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Dirty Driving: Thundercars of Indiana · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | When I Knew · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now): The Poetry Show · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | The Music in Me: The Leopards Take Manhattan - The Little Band That Roared · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | The Recruiter · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Portraits of a Lady · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Cathouse: The Musical · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | The Boys from Baghdad High · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Coma · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Cat Dancers · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Addiction · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | The Addiction Project (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Hear and Now · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Ghosts of Abu Ghraib · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Children of God: Lost and Found · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | We Are Together (Thina Simunye) · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Plastic Disasters · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Baghdad ER · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Too Hot Not to Handle · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Autopsy: Sex, Lies and Murder · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Wide Awake · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Andrew Jenks, Room 335 · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Protocols of Zion · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Classical Baby 2 · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Pretty Things · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Ask Dr. Baden: An Autopsy Special · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Xiara's Song · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Cathouse: The Series (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | What Remains · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Last Letters Home: Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Diary of a Political Tourist · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Family Bonds (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Back in the Hood: Gang War 2 · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Twist of Faith · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Paternal Instinct · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Celibacy · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Atlantic City Hookers: It Ain't E-Z Being a Ho' · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Looking for Fidel · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | The End · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter's Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Jockey · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Cathouse 2: Back in the Saddle · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Showgirls: Glitz & Angst · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Naked World: America Undercover · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Comandante · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Persona Non Grata · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | A Boy's Life · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Shelter Dogs · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | And Along Came a Spider · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Autopsy 9: Dead Awakening · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | The Virtual Corpse · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Elaine Stritch at Liberty · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Cathouse · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Questioning Faith: Confessions of a Seminarian · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | Autopsy 8: Dead Giveaway · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Journeys with George · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | The Execution of Wanda Jean · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | American Standoff · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001 · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | Graduating Peter · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | Fashion Victim: The Killing of Gianni Versace · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | Dwarfs: Not a Fairy Tale · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | Southern Comfort · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | Chain Camera · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Big Mama · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Naked States · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Hate.Com: Extremists on the Internet · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | The Eyes of Tammy Faye · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | G String Divas (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Paradise Lost 2: Revelations · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | The Young and the Dead · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Legacy · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | Always a Bridesmaid · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | The Personals · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | American Hollow · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | Crashbox (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | Autopsy 6: Secrets of the Dead · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Life of Crime 2 · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | A Little Curious (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | The Cruise · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Thug Life in D.C. · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Autopsy 5: Dead Men Do Tell Tales · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Three Cats from Miami and Other Pet Practitioners · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Party Monster · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt? · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Frat House · as Executive Producer |
| 1997 | Wonderland · as Executive Producer |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls · as Executive Producer |
| 1997 | Talked to Death · as Executive Producer |
| 1997 | Bubbeh Lee and Me · as Executive Producer |
| 1997 | Autopsy 4: The Dead Speak · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Fetishes · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Prisoners of the War on Drugs · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Autopsy 3: Voices from the Grave · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | The Celluloid Closet · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | 5 American Kids - 5 American Handguns · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | Taxicab Confessions (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1994 | Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island · as Executive Producer |
| 1993 | The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter · as Executive Producer |
| 1993 | Mob Stories · as Executive Producer |
| 1992 | Abortion: Desperate Choices · as Executive Producer |
| 1992 | |
| 1991 | Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream · as Executive Producer |
| 1990 | Real Sex (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1983 | America Undercover (TV Series) |
| 1983 | Braingames (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |