Biography
Nevins previously ran MTV Documentary Films from 2019 to 2024, 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.
Produced 186
2020s
- 2026
Outposts: Nothing Here Is Yours
Producer
Musk. Check One Two
Executive Producer
Manhood
Executive Producer
- 2025
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
Producer
Cutting Through Rocks
Executive Producer
- 2024
The Path Forward
Executive Producer
After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home
Executive Producer
The ABCs of Book Banning
Producer
- 2023
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
Executive Producer
Pay or Die
Executive Producer
Last Song from Kabul
Executive Producer
The Eternal Memory
Executive Producer
Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
Executive Producer
Rosie's Theater Kids
Producer
- 2022
The Fire That Took Her
Executive Producer
Last Flight Home
Executive Producer
Anastasia
Executive Producer
Afghan Dreamers
Executive Producer
Alive in Bronze
Executive Producer
Omoiyari
Executive Producer
- 2021
Going to Pot: The High and Low of It
Executive Producer
A Life Too Short
Executive Producer
- 2020
American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself
Executive Producer
My Father the Mover
Executive Producer
2010s
- 2019
Gay Chorus Deep South
Executive Producer
17 Blocks
Executive Producer
St. Louis Superman
Executive Producer
- 2018
RX: Early Detection - A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee
Executive Producer
- 2017
Classical Baby: The Lullaby Show
Executive Producer
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
Executive Producer
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
Executive Producer
Cries from Syria
Executive Producer
- 2016
- 2015
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Executive Producer
Everything Is Copy
Executive Producer
- 2014
Banksy Does New York
Executive Producer
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
Executive Producer
Private Violence
Executive Producer
- 2013
- 2012
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Executive Producer
- 2011
Vito
Executive Producer
Project Nim
Executive Producer
Hot Coffee
Executive Producer
Journey Into Dyslexia
Executive Producer
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
Executive Producer
Reagan
Executive Producer
- 2010
One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
Executive Producer
Kevorkian
Executive Producer
A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration
Executive Producer
2000s
- 2009
Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags
Executive Producer
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Executive Producer
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
Executive Producer
The Final Inch
Executive Producer
Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
Executive Producer
- 2008
The Boys from Baghdad High
Executive Producer
- 2007
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
Executive Producer
I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA
Executive Producer
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Executive Producer
- 2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Executive Producer
- 2005
A Rape in a Small Town: The Florence Holway Story
Executive Producer
- 2004
'Twas the Night - A Holiday Celebration
Executive Producer
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
Executive Producer
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Executive Producer
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Executive Producer
- 2003
Persona Non Grata
Executive Producer
America Undercover
Producer
Comandante
Executive Producer
- 2002
And Along Came a Spider
Executive Producer
Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001
Executive Producer
Thoth
Executive Producer
- 2001
- 2000
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Executive Producer
101 Rent Boys
Executive Producer
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Executive Producer
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Producer
1990s
- 1999
The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years
Executive Producer
American Hollow
Executive Producer
- 1998
Kids Are Punny
Executive Producer
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
Executive Producer
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
Executive Producer
- 1997
Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
Producer
Twins: The Divided Self
Executive Producer
- 1996
Without Pity: A Film About Abilities
Executive Producer
The Celluloid Closet
Executive Producer
Prisoners of the War on Drugs
Executive Producer
- 1995
- 1994
- 1993
- 1992
Educating Peter
Producer
Acted in 1
Directed 1
2020s
- 2024
The ABCs of Book Banning
Director
Wrote 1
Created 1
1990s
- 1990
Real Sex
Creator
Appearances1
2020s
- 2026
