Betsy West

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Betsy West

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

Director

2021
Julia

as Director

2021
2018
RBG

as Director

Producer

2024
Frida

as Executive Producer

2021
Julia

as Producer

2020
Give My Regards to Broadway

as Executive Producer

2019
The Lavender Scare

as Executive Producer

2019
On Broadway

as Executive Producer

2018
RBG

as Producer

Editor

2022
The Picture Taker

as Editorial Consultant