Director · Producer · Writer · age 56
Liz Garbus
Best rated (directing): What Happened, Miss Simone? (7.4)
- Directing films
- 15
- Directing avg
- 6.74
- Peak run
- 2011’21
Directing films, by TMDB rating
The career
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
As a director, films with 25+ votes
Liz by the numbers
Average
6.74
5 rated films
Vote weighted
6.71
bigger films count more
Median
6.8
half are better
Consistency
±0.50
rating spread
Career
29y
1998 to 2026
Total votes
1.51K
across every film
Best
7.4
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Worst
6.1
Lost Girls
Newest first
Filmography
| 2026 | Give Me the Ball! | · | 1 |
| 2021 |  Becoming Cousteau | 6.9 | 35 |
| 2020 |  All In: The Fight for Democracy | · | 23 |
| 2020 |  Lost Girls | 6.1 | 776 |
| 2016 | Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper | · | 20 |
| 2015 |  What Happened, Miss Simone? | 7.4 | 400 |
| 2013 |  Love, Marilyn | 6.5 | 73 |
| 2011 |  Bobby Fischer Against the World | 6.8 | 129 |
| 2009 | Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech | · | 4 |
| 2007 | Coma | · | 3 |
| 2006 | ¡Yo soy Boricua, pa' que tú lo sepas! | · | 2 |
| 2003 | Girlhood | · | 12 |
| 2003 | The Nazi Officer's Wife | · | 6 |
| 2002 | The Execution of Wanda Jean | · | 6 |
| 1998 | The Farm: Angola, USA | · | 16 |
Better together?
Liz Garbus's regulars
- Tony HardmonCinematographer · 2 films
- Tom HurwitzCinematographer · 2 films
- Jack YoungelsonWriter · 2 films
- Igor MartinovićCinematographer · 2 films · 6.73 avg
- Philip SheppardComposer · 2 films · 6.65 avg
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: Liz Garbus and Tony Hardmon movies · Liz Garbus and Tom Hurwitz movies · Liz Garbus and Jack Youngelson movies · Liz Garbus and Igor Martinović movies
Takes
On Liz Garbus
2 nominations, 0 wins
Awards record
- NominatedBest Documentary Feature · Academy Awards 2016Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
- NominatedBest Documentary Feature · Academy Awards 1999Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus