Sheila Nevins
Production · Executive Producer · Producer · Director
Born Apr 6, 1939 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Active 1990–present · Awards: Peabody Awards, News and Documentary Emmy Awards, Lucy Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special, Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
Nevins previously ran MTV Documentary Films from 2019 to 2024, and was the President of HBO's Documentary and Family Programming from 2005 - 2018.
Filmography
The Eternal Memory (2023) — Executive ProducerI Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter (2019) — Executive ProducerRobin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018) — Executive ProducerMommy Dead and Dearest (2017) — Executive ProducerBright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017) — Executive ProducerBecoming Warren Buffett (2017) — Executive ProducerJim: The James Foley Story (2016) — Executive ProducerGoing Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015) — Executive ProducerCobain: Montage of Heck (2015) — Executive ProducerA Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015) — Executive ProducerEverything Is Copy (2015) — Executive ProducerCitizenfour (2014) — Executive ProducerBanksy Does New York (2014) — Executive ProducerMarina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012) — Executive ProducerMea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012) — Executive ProducerProject Nim (2011) — Executive ProducerThere's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane (2011) — Executive ProducerHot Coffee (2011) — Executive ProducerCarrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2010) — Executive ProducerI Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009) — Executive ProducerWhen the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) — Executive Producer4 Little Girls (1997) — Executive ProducerParadise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) — Executive ProducerThe Celluloid Closet (1996) — Executive Producer