Nevins runs MTV Documentary Films 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. She joined MTV in 2019.
Known For
The Eternal Memory
(2023)
Executive Producer
Cobain: Montage of Heck
(2015)
Executive Producer
Citizenfour
(2014)
Executive Producer
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
(2015)
Executive Producer
The Words That Built America
(2017)
Executive Producer
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
(2018)
Executive Producer
Everything Is Copy
(2015)
Executive Producer
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
(2012)
Executive Producer
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
(1996)
Executive Producer
Mommy Dead and Dearest
(2017)
Executive Producer
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
(2017)
Executive Producer
The Celluloid Closet
(1996)
Executive Producer
Full Filmography
Production
Abortion: Desperate Choices
(1992)
Executive Producer
Educating Peter
(1992)
Producer
Mob Stories
(1993)
Executive Producer
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
(1994)
Executive Producer
5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids
(1995)
Executive Producer
The Celluloid Closet
(1996)
Executive Producer
Prisoners of the War on Drugs
(1996)
Executive Producer
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
(1996)
Executive Producer
Without Pity: A Film About Abilities
(1996)
Executive Producer
The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row
(1997)
Executive Producer
4 Little Girls
(1997)
Executive Producer
Daughter of the Bride
(1997)
Producer
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
(1998)
Executive Producer
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
(1998)
Executive Producer
Life of Crime 2
(1998)
Executive Producer
Kids Are Punny
(1998)
Executive Producer
American Hollow
(1999)
Executive Producer
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
(1999)
Executive Producer
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
(2000)
Executive Producer
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
(2000)
Executive Producer
Southern Comfort
(2001)
Executive Producer
Journeys with George
(2002)
Executive Producer
Thoth
(2002)
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The Virtual Corpse
(2003)
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Comandante
(2003)
Executive Producer
Persona Non Grata
(2003)
Executive Producer
And Along Came a Spider
(2003)
Executive Producer
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
(2004)
Executive Producer
Last Letters Home
(2004)
Executive Producer
Looking For Fidel
(2004)
Executive Producer
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
(2004)
Executive Producer
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
(2004)
Executive Producer
The End
(2004)
Executive Producer
A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story
(2005)
Executive Producer
Xiara's Song
(2005)
Executive Producer
I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
(2005)
Executive Producer
Wide Awake
(2006)
Executive Producer
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
(2006)
Executive Producer
Baghdad ER
(2006)
Executive Producer
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
(2007)
Executive Producer
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
(2007)
Executive Producer
Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi
(2007)
Executive Producer
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
(2007)
Executive Producer
I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA
(2007)
Executive Producer
Andrew Jenks, Room 335
(2008)
Executive Producer
The Boys from Baghdad High
(2008)
Executive Producer
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
(2008)
Executive Producer
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
(2008)
Executive Producer
Portraits of a Lady
(2008)
Executive Producer
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
(2009)
Executive Producer
Studs Terkel: Listening to America
(2009)
Executive Producer
Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
(2009)
Executive Producer
Sergio
(2009)
Executive Producer
The Trials of Ted Haggard
(2009)
Executive Producer
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
(2009)
Executive Producer
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
(2009)
Executive Producer
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
(2009)
Executive Producer
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags
(2009)
Executive Producer
Kevorkian
(2010)
Executive Producer
One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
(2010)
Executive Producer
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
(2010)
Executive Producer
Secrets of the Tribe
(2010)
Executive Producer
A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
(2010)
Executive Producer
For Neda
(2010)
Executive Producer
I Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families about Learning Differences
(2010)
Executive Producer
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
(2010)
Executive Producer
Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
(2010)
Executive Producer
Koran by Heart
(2011)
Executive Producer
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
(2011)
Executive Producer
Love Crimes Of Kabul
(2011)
Executive Producer
The Loving Story
(2011)
Executive Producer
Gloria: In Her Own Words
(2011)
Executive Producer
Reagan
(2011)
Executive Producer
Journey Into Dyslexia
(2011)
Executive Producer
Hot Coffee
(2011)
Executive Producer
Mann v. Ford
(2011)
Executive Producer
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
(2011)
Executive Producer
About Face: Supermodels Then and Now
(2012)
Executive Producer
First Cousin Once Removed
(2012)
Executive Producer
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
(2012)
Executive Producer
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
(2012)
Executive Producer
Life According to Sam
(2013)
Executive Producer
An Apology to Elephants
(2013)
Executive Producer
Six by Sondheim
(2013)
Executive Producer
The Case Against 8
(2014)
Executive Producer
Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert
(2014)
Executive Producer
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
(2014)
Executive Producer
Banksy Does New York
(2014)
Executive Producer
Citizenfour
(2014)
Executive Producer
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
(2014)
Executive Producer
Private Violence
(2014)
Executive Producer
Terror at the Mall
(2014)
Executive Producer
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
(2015)
Executive Producer
Thought Crimes
(2015)
Executive Producer
Cobain: Montage of Heck
(2015)
Executive Producer
The Latin Explosion: A New America
(2015)
Executive Producer
Everything Is Copy
(2015)
Executive Producer
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
(2015)
Executive Producer
Living With Lincoln
(2015)
Executive Producer
Class Divide
(2016)
Producer
Risky Drinking
(2016)
Executive Producer
Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing
(2016)
Executive Producer
Jim: The James Foley Story
(2016)
Executive Producer
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
(2016)
Executive Producer
Abortion: Stories Women Tell
(2016)
Executive Producer
Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
(2016)
Executive Producer
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
(2016)
Executive Producer
Suited
(2016)
Executive Producer
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
(2017)
Executive Producer
Cries from Syria
(2017)
Executive Producer
Mommy Dead and Dearest
(2017)
Executive Producer
Meth Storm
(2017)
Executive Producer
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
(2017)
Executive Producer
I Am Evidence
(2017)
Executive Producer
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
(2017)
Executive Producer
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
(2017)
Executive Producer
Traffic Stop
(2017)
Executive Producer
Becoming Warren Buffett
(2017)
Executive Producer
The Words That Built America
(2017)
Executive Producer
Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show
(2017)
Executive Producer
Arthur Miller: Writer
(2017)
Executive Producer
The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm
(2018)
Executive Producer
Bleed Out
(2018)
Executive Producer
Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi
(2018)
Executive Producer
A Dangerous Son
(2018)
Executive Producer
RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee
(2018)
Executive Producer
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
(2018)
Executive Producer
Liberty: Mother of Exiles
(2019)
Executive Producer
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
(2019)
Executive Producer
Finding the Way Home
(2019)
Executive Producer
St. Louis Superman
(2019)
Executive Producer
17 Blocks
(2019)
Executive Producer
Gay Chorus Deep South
(2019)
Executive Producer
American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself
(2020)
Executive Producer
My Father the Mover
(2020)
Executive Producer
Going to Pot: The High and Low of It
(2021)
Executive Producer
A Life Too Short
(2021)
Executive Producer
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
(2021)
Executive Producer
Last Flight Home
(2022)
Executive Producer
Anastasia
(2022)
Executive Producer
Alive in Bronze
(2022)
Executive Producer
Afghan Dreamers
(2022)
Executive Producer
Rosie's Theater Kids
(2023)
Producer
Pay or Die
(2023)
Executive Producer
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
(2023)
Executive Producer
Last Song from Kabul
(2023)
Executive Producer
The Eternal Memory
(2023)
Executive Producer
Mourning in Lod
(2023)
Executive Producer
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
(2023)
Executive Producer
The ABCs of Book Banning
(2024)
Producer
Death Without Mercy
(2024)
Executive Producer
Writing
Directing