
Sheila Nevins
Biography
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 Peabod…
Known For
Citizenfour
Executive Producer
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Executive Producer
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Executive Producer
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Executive Producer
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Executive Producer
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Executive Producer
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Executive Producer
The Eternal Memory
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Filmography
Acting (1)
Movies (1)
Crew (177)
Movies (167)
Manhood
2026Executive Producer
Ask E. Jean
2026 UpcomingExecutive Producer
May 22
Cutting Through Rocks
2025Executive Producer
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
2025Producer
The ABCs of Book Banning
2024Director
The ABCs of Book Banning
2024Producer
Chasing Roo
2024Executive Producer
I Am Ready, Warden
2024Executive Producer
Death Without Mercy
2024Executive Producer
The Path Forward
2024Executive Producer
After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home
2024Executive Producer
The Eternal Memory
2023Executive Producer
Mourning in Lod
2023Executive Producer
Rosie's Theater Kids
2023Producer
Pay or Die
2023Executive Producer
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
2023Executive Producer
Last Song from Kabul
2023Executive Producer
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
2023Executive Producer
Omoiyari
2022Executive Producer
Anastasia
2022Executive Producer
Last Flight Home
2022Executive Producer
Alive in Bronze
2022Executive Producer
Afghan Dreamers
2022Executive Producer
The Fire That Took Her
2022Executive Producer
A Life Too Short
2021Executive Producer
Going to Pot: The High and Low of It
2021Executive Producer
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
2021Executive Producer
American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself
2020Executive Producer
My Father the Mover
2020Executive Producer
17 Blocks
2019Executive Producer
Finding the Way Home
2019Executive Producer
Liberty: Mother of Exiles
2019Executive Producer
Gay Chorus Deep South
2019Executive Producer
St. Louis Superman
2019Executive Producer
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
2019Executive Producer
The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm
2018Executive Producer
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018Executive Producer
Bleed Out
2018Executive Producer
A Dangerous Son
2018Executive Producer
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
2018Screenplay
Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
2018Executive Producer
RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee
2018Executive Producer
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017Executive Producer
The Words That Built America
2017Executive Producer
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
2017Executive Producer
Mommy Dead and Dearest
2017Executive Producer
Becoming Warren Buffett
2017Executive Producer
Meth Storm
2017Executive Producer
Traffic Stop
2017Executive Producer
I Am Evidence
2017Executive Producer
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
2017Executive Producer
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2017Executive Producer
Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show
2017Executive Producer
Cries from Syria
2017Executive Producer
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
2017Executive Producer
Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing
2016Executive Producer
Class Divide
2016Producer
Risky Drinking
2016Executive Producer
Suited
2016Executive Producer
Jim: The James Foley Story
2016Executive Producer
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
2016Executive Producer
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
2016Executive Producer
Abortion: Stories Women Tell
2016Executive Producer
Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
2016Executive Producer
Cobain: Montage of Heck
2015Executive Producer
Everything Is Copy
2015Executive Producer
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015Executive Producer
The Latin Explosion: A New America
2015Executive Producer
Living With Lincoln
2015Executive Producer
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
2015Executive Producer
Thought Crimes
2015Executive Producer
Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert
2014Executive Producer
Citizenfour
2014Executive Producer
Terror at the Mall
2014Executive Producer
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
2014Executive Producer
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
2014Executive Producer
The Case Against 8
2014Executive Producer
Private Violence
2014Executive Producer
Banksy Does New York
2014Executive Producer
Six by Sondheim
2013Executive Producer
Life According to Sam
2013Executive Producer
An Apology to Elephants
2013Executive Producer
First Cousin Once Removed
2012Executive Producer
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012Executive Producer
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
2012Executive Producer
About Face: Supermodels Then and Now
2012Executive Producer
Journey Into Dyslexia
2011Executive Producer
Koran by Heart
2011Executive Producer
Reagan
2011Executive Producer
Hot Coffee
2011Executive Producer
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
2011Executive Producer
Project Nim
2011Executive Producer
Gloria: In Her Own Words
2011Executive Producer
The Loving Story
2011Executive Producer
Love Crimes Of Kabul
2011Executive Producer
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
2011Executive Producer
Mann v. Ford
2011Executive Producer
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
2010Executive Producer
For Neda
2010Executive Producer
Kevorkian
2010Executive Producer
Secrets of the Tribe
2010Executive Producer
Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
2010Executive Producer
I Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences
2010Executive Producer
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
2010Executive Producer
A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
2010Executive Producer
One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
2010Executive Producer
The Trials of Ted Haggard
2009Executive Producer
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009Executive Producer
Sergio
2009Executive Producer
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
2009Executive Producer
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
2009Executive Producer
Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
2009Executive Producer
Studs Terkel: Listening to America
2009Executive Producer
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009Executive Producer
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags
2009Executive Producer
The Boys from Baghdad High
2008Executive Producer
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
2008Executive Producer
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
2008Executive Producer
Andrew Jenks, Room 335
2008Executive Producer
Portraits of a Lady
2008Executive Producer
Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi
2007Executive Producer
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
2007Executive Producer
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
2007Executive Producer
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
2007Executive Producer
I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA
2007Executive Producer
Baghdad ER
2006Executive Producer
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006Executive Producer
Wide Awake
2006Executive Producer
I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
2005Executive Producer
Xiara's Song
2005Executive Producer
A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story
2005Executive Producer
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
2004Executive Producer
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
2004Executive Producer
Looking for Fidel
2004Executive Producer
The End
2004Executive Producer
Last Letters Home
2004Executive Producer
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
2004Executive Producer
Comandante
2003Executive Producer
Persona Non Grata
2003Executive Producer
The Virtual Corpse
2003Executive Producer
Journeys with George
2002Executive Producer
Thoth
2002Executive Producer
And Along Came a Spider
2002Executive Producer
Southern Comfort
2001Executive Producer
Broken Child
2000Producer
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000Executive Producer
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000Executive Producer
The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years
2000Executive Producer
American Hollow
1999Executive Producer
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1999Executive Producer
Kids Are Punny
1998Executive Producer
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
1998Executive Producer
Life of Crime 2
1998Executive Producer
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
1998Executive Producer
4 Little Girls
1997Executive Producer
The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row
1997Executive Producer
Twins: The Divided Self
1997Executive Producer
Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
1997Producer
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996Executive Producer
The Celluloid Closet
1996Executive Producer
Without Pity: A Film About Abilities
1996Executive Producer
Prisoners of the War on Drugs
1996Executive Producer
5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids
1995Executive Producer
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
1994Executive Producer
Mob Stories
1993Executive Producer
Educating Peter
1992Producer
Abortion: Desperate Choices
1992Executive Producer
Television (10)
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
2019Executive Producer
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
2018Executive Producer
15: A Quinceañera Story
2017Executive Producer
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
2017Executive Producer
The Weight of the Nation
2012Executive Producer
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010Executive Producer
The Alzheimer's Project
2009Executive Producer
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006Executive Producer
America Undercover
2003Producer
Taxicab Confessions
1995Executive Producer
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