Oscar Doc Short Nominations: Sheila Nevins Breaks Through, Ben Proudfoot Scores Third Nom In Four Years
deadline.comAt the age of 84, documentary legend Sheila Nevins today earned the first Oscar nomination of her career. Nevins was nominated in the Documentary Short category this morning for her directorial debut, The ABCs of Book Banning, from MTV Documentary Films.
She has won more than 30 Emmy Awards during her illustrious career, but this is her first Oscar recognition. “It was a sleepless night,” Nevins says of the anticipation for the announcement. “It’s always a sleepless night.
This was a particularly sleepless night.” Her film, co-directed by Nazenet Habtezghi and produced by Trish Adlesic, examines the surge of book banning in U.S.
schools, and gives a platform to kids who share what it means to them to be denied access to reading materials in their libraries. “I felt a rage to make it,” Nevins told Deadline back in October. “It had to be done and it had to be watchable.” Joining The ABCs of Book Banning in the short doc category are The Barber of Little Rock, directed by John Hoffman and Christine Turner; Island in Between, directed by S.
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