Vinnie Malhotra serves as Executive Vice President, Nonfiction Programming for Showtime Networks Inc. An Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning executive, he oversees the development and production of the network's growing slate of original unscripted and documentary programming, as well as all documentary theatrical releases at SHOWTIME. Malhotra is in charge of developing and producing scripted programming about real events and real-life newsmakers, such as the Golden Globe®-winning limited-series THE LOUDEST VOICE, based on Roger Ailes, as well as THE GOOD LORD BIRD, starring Ethan Hawke. He also develops and produces sports documentaries including the Emmy Award winning film DISGRACED and the recent docu-series OUTCRY, in partnership with Stephen Espinoza, President, Showtime Sports and Event Programming. Malhotra arrived at SHOWTIME in 2015 in the newly created role of Senior Vice President, Documentaries, Unscripted and Sports Programming, where he spearheaded the development of the Showtime Documentary Films portfolio including multi-part docuseries THE FOURTH ESTATE, SHUT UP AND DRIBBLE, THE TRADE, THE CIRCUS, the Peabody Award-nominated and Television Academy Honors recipient 16 SHOTS, the Emmy-nominated WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN, the Grammy®-nominated SHANGRI-LA, COUPLES THERAPY and MURDER IN THE BAYOU. Malhotra's oversight led to the celebrated news series VICE coming to SHOWTIME for new stories in 2020. He has also steered critically acclaimed documentaries that focused on the lives and legacies of culture-defining and at times controversial figures, including ERIC CLAPTON: LIFE IN 12 BARS, WHITNEY. "CAN I BE ME," THE PUTIN INTERVIEWS, the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner WEINER, RISK and XY CHELSEA. Previously, Malhotra served as Senior Vice President for Development and Acquisitions at CNN Worldwide. He joined CNN in March 2012, where he was responsible for leading development and co-production opportunities for CNN's platforms. In this role, he launched CNN Films, a production unit created to produce and acquire documentary films, and to leverage distribution opportunities for those films at film festivals and in theaters. Malhotra managed the day-to-day operation of CNN Films, and worked directly with filmmakers to develop original projects. His efforts have led to successful partnerships with multiple award-winning filmmakers including Steve James and Alex Gibney, as well as the acquisition, co-production, or commission of more than two dozen films for broadcast on CNN and distribution via its digital platforms. Those films included Blackfish, Our Nixon, Life Itself, Ivory Tower, Dinosaur 13, Whitey: The United States v. James J. Bulger, The Hunting Ground, Fresh Dressed, and STEVE JOBS: The Man in the Machine, among others. Malhotra also handled the development and production of CNN original series, including the three-time Primetime Emmy award-winning Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man, This is Life with Lisa Ling, High Profits, Finding Jesus, Somebody's Gotta Do It with Mike Rowe, Chicagoland and Death Row Stories from Sundance Productions and Robert Redford, The Sixties and The Seventies, from Playtone and Tom Hanks. In 2015, Malhotra launched a partnership with CNN Digital Studios to acquire and stream documentary shorts. The premium short-form films were created by new and emerging filmmakers and acquired at prominent film festivals prior to streaming via the network's digital platforms, including CNN.com and CNNgo. A former program development executive at ESPN and ABC News producer, Malhotra began his career with ABC News in 1997. There, he worked on several of the news organization's signature programs including Nightline and World News Tonight, and served as a producer for Peter Jennings for three years. Malhotra later worked with co-anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff and was part of the convoy in Iraq when Woodruff and a cameraman were hit by an IED in January 2006. He was uninjured. During his 13 years at ABC News, he covered major global events including the Iraq War and the inauguration of President Barack Obama. From 2007 to 2010, Malhotra was Executive Producer of ABC News' weekend news content, including World News Saturday and World News Sunday, and oversaw the weekend editorial content and production for ABCNEWS.com and ABC News Now, among other ABC News digital platforms. In 2010, Malhotra joined ESPN as Vice President and Executive Producer for Content Development. In this position, he was responsible for the development of films that include Everything in Between: The Tim Tebow Story, The Color Orange, The Brady 6, and The Marinovich Project. He also developed scripted and non-scripted series for the network, and was part of the development team that created the new ESPN Quarterback rating "Total QBR" that is now being used in association with all NFL coverage on ESPN. Malhotra has received numerous industry honors for excellence in journalism including three Primetime Emmy Awards, six News and Documentary Emmy Awards, a Peabody and an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award. Malhotra is based in the SHOWTIME offices in Los Angeles.
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- Producer
- 66 on MovieCove · 72 credits in all
Known for
What are Vinnie Malhotra's films like?
Across their 57 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 35
Light 2 · Serious 12 · Dark 21
Grounded 31 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 1
Gentle 3 · Charged 23 · Intense 9
Steady 19 · Shifting 16 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 31 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 0
Slow burn 21 · Even-paced 14 · Relentless 0
Casual 6 · Engaged 23 · Full focus 6
Easy watch 5 · Affecting 16 · Heavy 14
A split, not a type: Resolved 19 · Open-ended 11 · Ambiguous 5
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet21
- Tragic4
- Ambiguous31
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Vinnie Malhotra's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 64 of their 66 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Paramount+ (50).
- Outcry (2020) · producer
- The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) · producer
- Couples Therapy (2019) · producer
- Attica (2021) · producer
- Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston (2019) · producer
- All Up in the Biz (2023) · producer
- Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (2019) · producer
- The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021) · producer
- Sid & Judy (2019) · producer
- Disgraced (2017) · producer
- Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James (2021) · producer
- Belushi (2020) · producer
- All their movies on Paramount+
- Crunchyroll
- Dox, show their 2 titles on Dox
- Magnolia Selects, show their 2 titles on Magnolia Selects
- Cineverse, show their title on Cineverse
- Howdy, show their title on Howdy
- Kino Film Collection, show their title on Kino Film Collection
- Lionsgate+, show their title on Lionsgate+
- PBS Documentaries, show their title on PBS Documentaries
- Warriors & Gangsters, show their title on Warriors & Gangsters
Subscription and free streaming for Vinnie Malhotra's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
72 credits, 66 with a MovieCove page.
The Altruists (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all shows
The Eyes of Ghana (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Court of Gold(2025)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows
The Turnaround(2024)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Starting 5(2024)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all shows
All Up in the Biz(2023)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Murder in Big Horn(2023)
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all shows
Stand(2023)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Ghosts of Beirut(2023)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
The 12th Victim(2023)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all shows
The Corridors of Power(2022)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
The Lincoln Project(2022)
Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all shows
McEnroe(2022)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Supreme Team(2022)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all shows
My Robot Sophia(2022)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Nothing Lasts Forever(2022)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows
Sheryl(2022)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Spector(2022)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows
The Real Charlie Chaplin(2021)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Attica(2021)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
UFO(2021)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Detainee 001(2021)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Gossip(2021)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all shows
Rolling Like Thunder(2021)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
The Reagans(2020)
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all shows
Bad Hombres(2020)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
Love Fraud(2020)
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all shows
Belushi(2020)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Kingdom of Silence(2020)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
Outcry(2020)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows
The Longest War(2020)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Ready for War(2019)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Sid & Judy(2019)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
Action(2019)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all shows
Couples Therapy(2019)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Murder in the Bayou(2019)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Shangri-La(2019)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows
XY Chelsea(2019)
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all shows
Shut Up and Dribble(2018)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all shows
The Fourth Estate(2018)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all shows
16 Shots(2019)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
The Trade(2018)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all shows
Love Means Zero(2017)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Legion of Brothers(2017)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
Disgraced(2017)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Whitney: Can I Be Me(2017)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Enlighten Us(2016)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Risk(2016)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
Raising Ryland (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
The Hunting Ground(2015)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Life Itself(2014)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Ivory Tower(2014)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Girl Rising(2013)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
American Chai(2001)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all filmsAll the Sinners Bleed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Audition (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 47 titles, 44 of them dated from 2001 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Girl Rising (2013)
Highest rated
Outcry (2020)
Most popular right now
Couples Therapy (2019)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
7 major nominations and no wins, 2016–2024.
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated ×2 · Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Vinnie Malhotra's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 79th percentile, the median of all 40; across their 35 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 77th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up30
- 50th to 74th17
- 25th to 49th12
- Below 25th7
Shape of the crowd
25 of their 66 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved3
- Loved with Detractors1
- Divisive5
- Cult Classic5
- Crowd Pleaser25
- Broadly Agreed5
- Mixed22
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Vinnie Malhotra work with?
People who share at least 2 of Vinnie Malhotra's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Stephen Espinoza shares the most, 8.
Directors
- Greg BarkerShared titles: Ghosts of Beirut (2023), Detainee 001 (2021), The Longest War (2020), Legion of Brothers (2017)See all 4 shared titles with Greg Barker
- Sacha JenkinsShared titles: Everything's Gonna Be All White (2022), Supreme Team (2022), Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James (2021), Rolling Like Thunder (2021), Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (2019)See all 5 shared titles with Sacha Jenkins
- Jenny CarchmanShared titles: Gossip (2021), The Fourth Estate (2018), Enlighten Us (2016)See all 3 shared titles with Jenny Carchman
- Peter J. ScalettarShared titles: Starting 5 (2024), Supreme Team (2022), Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Peter J. Scalettar
Writers
- Cameron DennisShared titles: Everything's Gonna Be All White (2022), Supreme Team (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Cameron Dennis
Cinematographers and editors
- Hans CharlesShared titles: We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022), Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James (2021), The Reagans (2020), Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (2019)See all 4 shared titles with Hans Charles
- Antonio RossiShared titles: Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court (2023), Attica (2021), Bitchin': The Sound and Fury of Rick James (2021)See all 3 shared titles with Antonio Rossi
- Daniel KoehlerShared titles: My Robot Sophia (2022), The Fourth Estate (2018), The Trade (2018)See all 3 shared titles with Daniel Koehler
- Seth BomseShared titles: Gossip (2021), Murder in the Bayou (2019), Enlighten Us (2016)See all 3 shared titles with Seth Bomse
Producers
- Stephen EspinozaShared titles: Stand (2023), McEnroe (2022), Bad Hombres (2020), Outcry (2020), Action (2019), Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston (2019), Disgraced (2017), Prison Fighters: Five Rounds to Freedom (2017)See all 8 shared titles with Stephen Espinoza
- Diane BeckerShared titles: Ghosts of Beirut (2023), Detainee 001 (2021), Belushi (2020), The Longest War (2020), Sid & Judy (2019), Legion of Brothers (2017)See all 6 shared titles with Diane Becker
- John BattsekShared titles: Detainee 001 (2021), The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021), Belushi (2020), Sid & Judy (2019), Legion of Brothers (2017), Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)See all 6 shared titles with John Battsek
- Amy EntelisShared titles: Legion of Brothers (2017), Enlighten Us (2016), The Hunting Ground (2015), Ivory Tower (2014), Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story (2014), Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)See all 6 shared titles with Amy Entelis
Mixed roles
- Jalen RoseShared titles: Starting 5 (2024), Stand (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Jalen Rose
- Nicola MarshShared titles: The 12th Victim (2023), Shangri-La (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Nicola Marsh
- W. Kamau BellShared titles: We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022), The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021)See all 2 shared titles with W. Kamau Bell
- Mark MonroeShared titles: UFO (2021), XY Chelsea (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Mark Monroe
