Betsy West

Known for: Directing

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.

Filmography

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Top of the World 2026
Executive Producer, Director
Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks 2026
Executive Producer
This Is Not a Drill 2025
Producer
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything 2025
Executive Producer
Once Upon a Time in Ukraine 2024
Director
Frida 2024
Executive Producer
The Picture Taker 2022
Editorial Consultant
Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down 2022
Director
Julia 2021
Director, Producer
My Name Is Pauli Murray 2021
Director
Remembering RBG: A Nation Ugly Cries 2020
as Self
Give My Regards to Broadway 2020
Executive Producer
On Broadway 2019
Executive Producer
The Lavender Scare 2019
Executive Producer
RBG 2018
Director, Producer

Credits from TMDB.