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Sheila Nevins
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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 art…
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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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2026
Outposts: Nothing Here is Yours
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2026
Tribeca 25
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2026
Ask E. Jean
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2026
Manhood
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2025
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
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2025
Cutting Through Rocks
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2025
Vanishing: A Love Story
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2024
Chasing Roo
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2024
The Path Forward
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2024
After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home
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2024
Death Without Mercy
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2024
I Am Ready, Warden
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2024
The ABCs of Book Banning
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2023
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
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2023
Pay or Die
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2023
Last Song from Kabul
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2023
The Eternal Memory
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2023
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
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2023
Rosie's Theater Kids
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2023
Mourning in Lod
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2022
The Fire That Took Her
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2022
Last Flight Home
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2022
Anastasia
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2022
Afghan Dreamers
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2022
Alive in Bronze
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2022
Omoiyari
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2021
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
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2021
Going to Pot: The High and Low of It
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2021
A Life Too Short
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2020
American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself
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2020
My Father the Mover
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2019
Finding the Way Home
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2019
Liberty: Mother of Exiles
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2019
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
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2019
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
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2019
Gay Chorus Deep South
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2019
17 Blocks
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2019
St. Louis Superman
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2018
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
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2018
Bleed Out
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