Biography
Sheila Nevins is an American television producer and former head of MTV Documentary Films division of MTV Entertainment Studios. Previously, Nevins was the president of HBO Documentary Films, where she produced over 1,000 documentary films. She has worked on productions that have been recognized with 35 News and Documentary Emmy Awards, 42 Peabody Awards, and 26 Academy Awards. Nevins has won 31 individual Primetime Emmy Awards, more than any other person. She is also a member of the board of directors for the Peabody Awards.
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Awards & recognition
- Lucy Award · 2003
- Emmy Award
- Peabody Awards
- Academy Award — Best Documentary (Short Subject) · 2026 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Documentary (Short Subject) · 2024 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Documentary (Short Subject) · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Andrew Jenks, Room 335
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
The End
Death Without Mercy
The Eternal Memory
Omoiyari
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
An Apology to Elephants
Bleed Out
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
Citizenfour
Sergio
Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
The Fire That Took Her
Liberty: Mother of Exiles
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Jim: The James Foley Story
Everything Is Copy
Living With Lincoln
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
Life of Crime 2
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
Becoming Warren Buffett
Cries from Syria
Hot Coffee
I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
4 Little Girls
The Celluloid Closet
Arthur Miller: Writer
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Six by Sondheim
Baghdad ER
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
Kevorkian
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale