Sheila Nevins

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.

Citizenfour

7.7

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

7.6

Cobain: Montage of Heck

7.7

Mommy Dead and Dearest

7.4

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

7.9

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

7.6

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

7.4

The Celluloid Closet

7.2

There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane

6.6

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

7.5

The Eternal Memory

8.0

I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter

7.0

Banksy Does New York

6.9

Becoming Warren Buffett

7.2

Hot Coffee

7.2

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

6.8

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

7.4

Thought Crimes

6.2

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

7.6

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

7.1

Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking

7.4

Comandante

6.5

4 Little Girls

7.2

Jim: The James Foley Story

7.3

Everything Is Copy

7.4

The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling

7.2

Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy

7.2

Traffic Stop

6.0

Six by Sondheim

7.1

The Case Against 8

7.0

Cries from Syria

7.3

I Am Evidence

6.4

Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing

6.8

Arthur Miller: Writer

7.1

The ABCs of Book Banning

6.3

The Loving Story

6.9

Reagan

6.1

Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper

7.7

Sergio

7.7

Life According to Sam

6.8

The Latin Explosion: A New America

7.9

Abortion: Stories Women Tell

6.3

Class Divide

5.9

Terror at the Mall

7.8

Warning: This Drug May Kill You

7.0

I Am Ready, Warden

5.9

Bleed Out

7.7

The Words That Built America

6.0

17 Blocks

7.4

Suited

6.8

Southern Comfort

7.2

St. Louis Superman

7.0

Looking for Fidel

6.0

Wide Awake

6.0

Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

7.7

Meth Storm

6.3

The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

6.8

A Dangerous Son

6.3

Private Violence

6.5

About Face: Supermodels Then and Now

5.1

First Cousin Once Removed

5.0

Thoth

5.8

Liberty: Mother of Exiles

7.2

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

5.8

Katie Morgan's Porn 101

5.8

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

6.6

The Trials of Ted Haggard

4.7

Educating Peter

6.2

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

6.3

Secrets of the Tribe

6.5

Persona Non Grata

5.5

Living With Lincoln

7.4

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge

7.2

Journeys with George

6.6

Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi

5.3

An Apology to Elephants

7.9

Last Flight Home

6.5

I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA

6.3

Risky Drinking

6.9

Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America

6.4

For Neda

6.8

American Hollow

6.3

Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales

6.9

Kevorkian

6.7

Journey Into Dyslexia

5.7

A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration

3.8

Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi

6.0

Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?

5.0

Koran by Heart

6.0

Baghdad ER

7.3

Elaine Stritch at Liberty

9.2

My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)

7.4

America Undercover

4.6

Life of Crime 2

7.0

All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State

7.6

The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

5.6

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

5.2

Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain

7.0

I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me

7.2

Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

4.8

The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years

6.0

15: A Quinceañera Story

6.2

Going to Pot: The High and Low of It

4.7

Gloria: In Her Own Words

6.7

Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County

4.3

Last Letters Home

7.0

Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride

5.7

Studs Terkel: Listening to America

5.5

No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

5.7

Mann v. Ford

6.7

Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day

8.0

War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend

7.0

Pay or Die

6.7

Finding the Way Home

5.0

Love Crimes Of Kabul

4.7

5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids

5.8

American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

5.0

Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

6.7

Taxicab Confessions

5.7

The Alzheimer's Project

4.7

A Life Too Short

6.0

The End

9.5

The Education of Dee Dee Ricks

5.2

One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey

7.0

The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality

6.0

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

6.5

Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert

5.2

Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney

6.5

The Boys from Baghdad High

4.0

A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story

3.5

Xiara's Song

3.5

Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater

6.0

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

5.5

I Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences

6.0

Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable

6.5

My Father the Mover

10.0

Gay Chorus Deep South

1.0

Andrew Jenks, Room 335

10.0

Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?

6.0

Mob Stories

4.0

Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags

10.0

Anastasia

4.0

Death Without Mercy

8.0

Kids Are Punny

5.0

Prisoners of the War on Drugs

6.0

Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?

9.0

Omoiyari

6.0

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

6.0

The Weight of the Nation

2.0

Rosie's Theater Kids

0.0

Last Song from Kabul

0.0

Mourning in Lod

0.0

Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later

0.0

Afghan Dreamers

0.0

Alive in Bronze

0.0

Without Pity: A Film About Abilities

0.0

Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show

0.0

The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row

0.0

The Virtual Corpse

0.0

After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home

0.0

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

0.0

And Along Came a Spider

0.0

RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee

0.0

Abortion: Desperate Choices

0.0

Portraits of a Lady

0.0

The Path Forward

0.0

Chasing Roo

0.0