Person
Betsy West
Directing
Biography
Betsy West is an Academy Award®-nominated Emmy winning director/producer of RBG (2018), along with Julie Cohen. She and Cohen recently directed the new documentaries Julia (2021), and My Name is Pauli Murray (2021). As a producer at ABC News, Betsy won 21 Emmy Awards. She is the Fred W. Friendly Professor Emerita at Columbia Journalism School.
Known for
RBG
Director
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
Executive Producer
Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks
Executive Producer
On Broadway
Executive Producer
Frida
Executive Producer
The Lavender Scare
Executive Producer
Once Upon a Time in Ukraine
Director
Julia
Director
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Director
Remembering RBG: A Nation Ugly Cries
Self
Filmography
- 2026Pretty Ugly: The Story of the LunachicksExecutive Producer
- 2025This Is Not a DrillProducer
- 2025Barbara Walters: Tell Me EverythingExecutive Producer
- 2024Once Upon a Time in UkraineDirector
- 2024FridaExecutive Producer
- 2022The Picture TakerEditorial Consultant
- 2022Gabby Giffords Won't Back DownDirector
- 2021JuliaDirector
- 2021My Name Is Pauli MurrayDirector
- 2020Remembering RBG: A Nation Ugly CriesSelf
- 2020Give My Regards to BroadwayExecutive Producer
- 2019On BroadwayExecutive Producer
- 2019The Lavender ScareExecutive Producer
- 2018RBGDirector
- —Top of the WorldExecutive Producer
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