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Sheila Nevins (born April 6, 1939) 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. She has produced over 1,000 documentary films for HBO and is one of the most influential people in documentary filmmaking.
Her great-aunt Celia had died in the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York, at age 17. Nevins had previously heard family lore about the tragedy, but while working on the film, she...
Apr 23, 2017 · Nevins described the books as “either an expose, a memoir, an obituary, a dalliance.” A self-obituary? “Could be!”
Mar 1, 2022 · Documentary Producer Sheila Nevins on True Crime, Real Sex, and Being ‘Lowbrow’ Iconic Broadway Composer and Lyricist Stephen Sondheim Dead at 91
Aug 23, 2022 · Screen Queen. Documentary Producer Sheila Nevins on True Crime, Real Sex, and Being ‘Lowbrow’. The prolific film exec reflects on her nearly six-decade career and the current state of...
Feb 14, 2024 · Sheila Nevins is stepping down at MTV Documentary Films, leaving on the high note of nabbing her first Oscar nomination after decades as a producer.
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Sheila Nevins has produced documentaries for most of her professional life. But at 84, she’s still notching career firsts. Last month, Nevins added “Oscar-nominated director” to her résumé, having landed her first nod for co-directing the short “The ABCs of Book Banning” with Trish Adlesic and Nazenet Habtezghi.
