Awards & Winners

Sheila Nevins

Date of Birth 06-April-1939
Place of Birth Manhattan
(New York City, New York, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Sheilan Nevins, Sheila J. Nevins
Profession Television producer, Film Producer, Screenwriter
Sheila Nevins is an American television producer and the President of HBO Documentary Films. She has produced hundreds of documentary films for HBO and is one of the most influential people in documentary filmmaking. She has worked on productions that have been recognized with 59 Emmy Awards, 31 Peabody Awards, and 21 Academy Awards. She has won 28 individual Primetime Emmy Awards, more than any other person.

Awards by Sheila Nevins

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sheila Nevins.

2014


Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking
Honored for : Life According to Sam
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Honored for : HBO Documentary Film Series
(One Last Hug: Three Days At Grief Camp)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form
Honored for : The Crash Reel
(HBO Documentary Films)

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches - Original Daytime Program or Series The Weight Of The Nation For Kids
Kebreeya's Salad Days
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary Valentine Road
HBO Documentary Film Series
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
HBO Documentary Film Series
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form American Winter
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form Tales from the Organ Trade
HBO Documentary Film Series
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr & Mrs Kraus
HBO Documentary Film Series
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
HBO Documentary Films
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form Gideon's Army
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form The Crash Reel
HBO Documentary Films
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form Valentine Road
HBO Documentary Films
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
HBO Documentary Films
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking Life According to Sam
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special HBO Documentary Film Series
Paycheck To Paycheck: The Life And Times Of Katrina Gilbert
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program HBO Documentary Film Series
One Last Hug: Three Days At Grief Camp
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program Masterclass
Wynton Marsalis

2013


Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking
Honored for : Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary
Honored for : HBO Documentary Film Series
(Saving Face)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special
Honored for : Manhunt
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming
Honored for : HBO Documentary Film Series
(Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form
Honored for : HBO Documentary Film Series
(The Loving Story)

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form HBO Documentary Film Series
The Loving Story
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form HBO Documentary Film Series
Vito
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form HBO Documentary Film Series
Hard Times: Lost on Long Island
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming HBO Documentary Film Series
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Science And Technology Programming HBO Documentary Film Series
Project NIM
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Science And Technology Programming HBO Documentary Film Series
Saving Face
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming HBO Documentary Film Series
God Is the Bigger Elvis
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming HBO Documentary Film Series
Raising Renee
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary HBO Documentary Film Series
Saving Face
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary HBO Documentary Film Series
Project NIM
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary HBO Documentary Film Series
The Loving Story
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program Masterclass
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program The Weight Of The Nation For Kids
Quiz Ed!
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special Ethel
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Special Manhunt

2012


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming – Long Form
Honored for : HBO Documentary Film Series
(Reagan)

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Bobby Fischer Against The World
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Gloria Steinem
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program The Weight Of The Nation For Kids
The Great Cafeteria Takeover
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-fiction Series The Weight Of The Nation

2011


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Honored for : A Child's Garden of Poetry
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Science And Technology Programming
Honored for : HBO Documentary Film Series
(Google Baby)

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special Wishful Drinking
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program A Child's Garden of Poetry

2010


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special
Honored for : Teddy: In His Own Words
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form
Honored for : HBO Documentary Film Series
(Which Way Home)

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Teddy: In His Own Words
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking Sergio

2009


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Honored for : The Alzheimer's Project
(Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? with Maria Shriver)
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking
Honored for : The Alzheimer's Project
(The Memory Loss Tapes)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming
Honored for : HBO Documentary Film Series
(The Art Of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale)

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special The Alzheimer's Project
Momentum In Science (Parts 1 & 2)
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking The Alzheimer's Project
The Memory Loss Tapes
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program The Alzheimer's Project
Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? with Maria Shriver

2008


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Honored for : Classical Baby: I'm Grown Up Now: The Poetry Show
Gotham Independent Film Tribute Award
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form
Honored for : Have You Seen Andy?
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking
Honored for : White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program Classical Baby: I'm Grown Up Now: The Poetry Show
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

2007


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary
Honored for : God Sleeps in Rwanda
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking
Honored for : When the Levees Broke
(A Requiem In Four Acts)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special
Honored for : Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking When the Levees Broke
A Requiem In Four Acts

2006


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Honored for : I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking
Honored for : Baghdad ER
(Exceptional Merit In Nonfiction Filmmaking)

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking Baghdad ER
Exceptional Merit In Nonfiction Filmmaking
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program Classical Baby
Classical Baby 2

2005


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary
Honored for : America Undercover
(My Flesh and Blood)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Honored for : Classical Baby
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking
Honored for : Death in Gaza
(Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming
Honored for : Cinemax Reel Life
(Bus 174)

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary The Orphans Of Nkandla
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking Death in Gaza
Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking Last Letters Home
Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program Classical Baby

2004


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special
Honored for : Elaine Stritch: At Liberty
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming - Long Form
Honored for : Spellbound
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Honored for : Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special Elaine Stritch: At Liberty
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Born Rich
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

2003


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Honored for : Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form
Honored for : America Undercover
(Telling Nicholas)

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Outstanding Nonfiction Special (Traditional)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Journeys with George
Outstanding Nonfiction Special (Traditional)

2002


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form
Honored for : Cinemax Reel Life
(The Carpet Slaves: Stolen Children of India)

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special In Memoriam: New York City
9/11/01","Outstanding Non-Fiction Special (Informational)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program Taxicab Confessions
Outstanding Non-Fiction Program

2001


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming with Limited Dramatization - Programs
Honored for : The Children of Chabannes
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Programs
Honored for : Cinemax Reel Life
(Crimes Of Honor)

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program King Gimp
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Dwarfs: Not a Fairy Tale
Outstanding Non-Fiction Special (Informational)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Half Past Autumn
Outstanding Non-Fiction Special (Informational)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen
Outstanding Non-Fiction Special (Informational)

2000


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Honored for : Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special
Honored for : Children in War

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special American Hollow
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Cancer: Evolution to Revolution
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Children in War
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales

1999


Peabody Award
(Personal Award for her work at HBO)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special
Honored for : Thug Life in DC
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational or Cultural Programming - Programs
Honored for : Cinemax Reel Life
(Kids of Survival: The Life And Art Of Tim Rollins & K.O.S.)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Programs
Honored for : America Undercover
(Teen Killers: A Second Chance?)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Programs
Honored for : Waco: The Rules of Engagement

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program Kids Are Punny
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Thug Life in DC
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special 4 Little Girls
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special Bong & Donnell
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special Dead Blue: Surviving Depression

1997


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special
Honored for : Without Pity: A Film About Abilities
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Honored for : How Do You Spell God?

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program How Do You Spell God?
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special Brett Killed Mom: A Sister's Diary
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special Without Pity: A Film About Abilities
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special Talked to Death
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special Taxicab Confessions

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special Eagle Scout: The Story of Henry Nicols
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special The Celluloid Closet

1995


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special
Honored for : One Survivor Remembers
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special
Honored for : Taxicab Confessions
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Honored for : The World Wildlife Fund Presents Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program The World Wildlife Fund Presents \"Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger\"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special 5 American Kids - 5 American Handguns
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special Taxicab Confessions
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special One Survivor Remembers
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Presents