Sheila Nevins

Award-winning documentary producer Sheila Nevins has won 21 Academy Awards, 47 Emmys, and 31 Peabody Awards along with maintaining a successful career with HBO. She has also won a personal award for excellence in broadcasting.

Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentary Films, has won Emmys for her production efforts in several films, including Teddy: In His Own Words (2009), The Alzheimer’s Project (2009), When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006), White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007), and Baghdad ER (2006). Nevins also was nominated for Emmys for All Aboard! Rosie’s Family Cruise (2006), Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003), In Memoriam: New York City (2002), Dwarfs: Not a Fairy Tale (2001), and multiple others while working for HBO. Sheila Nevins also has received Emmy nominations for numerous other HBO documentaries.

Sheila Nevins, a resident of New York City, completed her undergraduate studies in English at Barnard College and continued on to Yale University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in directing from the Yale School of Drama. In addition to HBO, Nevins has worked for CBS, ABC, and Time–Life.

During her time at HBO, Sheila Nevins established a high level of quality in productions while increasing the number of documentaries produced. Nevins draws inspiration for her HBO documentaries from theater, her original calling. Sheila Nevins enjoys telling stories of real people, whom she believes deliver compelling dialogue.

However, Sheila Nevins does not accept all the credit for HBO’s successful documentaries. Nevins notes that she has shared her awards with numerous other producers and filmmakers