Sheila Nevins was born on April 6,1939 and is an American television producer and head of MTV Documentary Films division of MTV Studios.
28 Facts About Sheila Nevins
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Sheila Nevins has produced over 1,000 documentary films for HBO and is one of the most influential people in documentary filmmaking.
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Sheila Nevins has worked on productions that have been recognized with 35 News and Documentary Emmy Awards, 42 Peabody Awards, and 26 Academy Awards.
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Sheila Nevins is a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Sheila Nevins' family was very poor and her mother suffered from an acute form of Raynaud's disease, which resulted in amputations of her limbs, and scleroderma.
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Sheila Nevins has a younger sister was born on 1946 and who is a doctor.
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Sheila Nevins attended Little Red School House and the High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
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Sheila Nevins received a BA in English from Barnard College in 1960.
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Sheila Nevins then worked as a researcher, cataloging historical footage about World War II at the Library of Congress.
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Sheila Nevins said that this immersive work inspired her to shift focus from the fictional world of theater to the fact-based world of documented in film.
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From 1970 to 1973, after moving back to New York, Sheila Nevins apprenticed with director Don Mischer and producer Bob Squire.
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Sheila Nevins then got a job as a researcher on Al Perlmutter's on the groundbreaking Channel 13 TV show The Great American Dream Machine, eventually working her way up to doing segments and "man on the street" interviews.
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In 1973, Sheila Nevins was a Field Producer for The Reasoner Report on ABC News.
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Sheila Nevins declined Don Hewitt's invitation to be a producer for 60 Minutes.
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Sheila Nevins worked at Scribner making recordings of books for blind people.
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Sheila Nevins was a researcher then associate producer for The Great American Dream Machine on National Educational Television.
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In 1978 and 1979, Sheila Nevins was a producer for the CBS News magazine Who's Who.
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In 1979, Sheila Nevins was hired by HBO as Director of Documentary Programming on a 13-week contract.
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From 1983 to 1985, Sheila Nevins had a production company called Spinning Reels and created the animated educational program Braingames.
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In 1986, Sheila Nevins returned to HBO as Vice President of Documentary Programming.
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From 1999 to 2003, Sheila Nevins was the Executive Vice President of Original Programming at HBO.
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In 1998, Sheila Nevins said that she produced 12 documentaries a year at HBO, with budgets that were typically US$600,000 in 1998 dollars.
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Sheila Nevins was HBO's President of Documentary and Family Programming since 2004.
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In March 2018, Sheila Nevins retired from her position at HBO.
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In 2017, Sheila Nevins published a memoir, You Don't Look Your Age.
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Sheila Nevins has discussed her son's struggle with Tourette syndrome and her struggle to be a working mother with a son who was ill.
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Sheila Nevins has said that the 2007 HBO series, Addiction, was inspired by her son's struggles with substance abuse.
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Sheila Nevins produced an HBO documentary about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire called Triangle: Remembering the Fire, to which she had a personal connection, which she found out about after seeing the documentary Schmatta.