Diane Sawyer

Acting

Diane Sawyer

Born 1945-12-22 · Glasgow, Kentucky, USA

Lila Diane Sawyer is an American television broadcast journalist known for anchoring major programs on two networks including ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Primetime newsmagazine while at ABC News. During her tenure at CBS News she hosted CBS Morning and was the first woman correspondent on 60 Minutes. Prior to her journalism career, she was a member of U.S. President Richard Nixon's White House staff and assisted in his post-presidency memoirs.

Acting credits

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert poster
6.8

Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringing together legendary Saturday Night Live hall-of-famers, iconic guests and surprise musical performances.

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

2025

Michael Jackson: A Life in Music poster
NR

The legendary journey of Michael Jackson, from his early days with the Jackson 5 to his breakthrough albums and live concerts.

Michael Jackson: A Life in Music

2026

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration poster
8.0

A retrospective of the 50-year history of the American Broadcasting Company, showcasing clips from past shows and current programs.

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration

2003

Waking Sleeping Beauty poster
7.2

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.

Waking Sleeping Beauty

2009

Crazy, Not Insane poster
7.2

Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she came closer to developing a unified field theory of what makes a killer. Along the way - steering away from the conventional wisdom of her colleagues - she explored the world of multiple personality disorder.

Crazy, Not Insane

2020

Howard poster
6.8

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.

Howard

2018

Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy poster
7.8

The story of Matthew Perry's rise to fame is interwoven with the harrowing story of his final days, as his assistant allegedly sought ketamine from sources the U.S. Attorney claims "should have known better." We hear from some of Perry's collaborators, Hollywood insiders, and law enforcement in telling this tragic Hollywood story.

Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy

2025

Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution poster
6.2

This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in America. The film combines rare archival materials, stand-up performances, and interviews with a show-stopping lineup to present a definitive history of queer comedy.

Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

2024

Our Barbara poster
10.0

Our Barbara: A Special Edition of 2020, a two-hour primetime special, will feature Walters’ most groundbreaking and iconic interviews, never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage of Walters, and interviews with Bob Iger, David Muir, Diane Sawyer, Deborah Roberts, Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos, among others, according to the network. ABC News will profile Walters’ prolific life and legacy, including making history as the first woman to co-anchor network morning and evening newscasts and paving the way for women in broadcast journalism.

Our Barbara

2023

Eric Dane: Life, Loss & Courage – A Diane Sawyer Special poster
NR

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Eric Dane: Life, Loss & Courage – A Diane Sawyer Special

2026

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner poster
5.0

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

2006

ABC Primetime: Mel Gibson's Passion poster
10.0

In this special edition of Primetime, ABC News' Diane Sawyer interviews filmmaker Mel Gibson about his highly controversial movie, ""The Passion of the Christ."" He responds to charges that the movie's portrayal of the Jewish role in the death of Christ will encourage anti-Semitism. He also elaborates on comments he's made about the Holocaust. In addition, Gibson tells why he felt it necessary to exhibit such a graphic depiction of Christ's crucifixion on film and discusses his decision to tell the story in Aramaic and Latin.

ABC Primetime: Mel Gibson's Passion

2004

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special poster
7.0

ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer marks the 20th anniversary of the making of the holiday classic movie “Love Actually” in this primetime special. Featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the special looks at how the film became a beloved Christmas tradition and a global sensation, with new insight into behind-the-scenes secrets and iconic scenes.

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special

2022

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7.0

Reporter Diane Sawyer and Julie Andrews visit filming locations from The Sound of Music (1965). Also included is an interview with Christopher Plummer, rare behind-the-scenes and related archival footage.

The Untold Story of The Sound of Music: A Diane Sawyer Special

2015

The Mystery of Richard Simmons: A Diane Sawyer Special poster
NR

The beloved fitness personality's remarkable rise to fame; examining the cultural impact that made him a household name.

The Mystery of Richard Simmons: A Diane Sawyer Special

2026

Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey – A Diane Sawyer Special poster
8.5

Hosted by Diane Sawyer, the program offers an intimate look at Bruce Willis’s life following his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, and the strength and advocacy of his wife, Emma Heming Willis.

Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey – A Diane Sawyer Special

2025

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel poster
7.0

This intimate and loving portrait of the legendary arbiter of fashion, art and culture illustrates the many stages of Vreeland's remarkable life. Born in Paris in 1903, she was to become New York's "Empress of Fashion" and a celebrated Vogue editor.

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

2012

Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards poster
6.1

An in-depth portrait of MANOLO BLAHNIK, self-confessed 'cobbler' and the man regarded by most influential fashion figures as 'the best shoe-maker of the 20th and 21st centuries. A film for anyone who has ever looked longingly at a pair of... 'Manolos'

Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards

2017

Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph poster
9.3

Jeremy Renner sits down with Diane Sawyer for his first television interview since the critical snow plow accident that nearly cost him his life.

Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph

2023

Matthew Perry: The Diane Sawyer Interview poster
7.0

Diane Sawyer sits down with actor Matthew Perry as he discusses his success, hard-fought battle with addiction, and life today.

Matthew Perry: The Diane Sawyer Interview

2022

A Moment in History - The Inauguration of Barack Obama poster
NR

Revisit the historic events of Jan. 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th U.S. president before thousands of enthralled spectators on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. ABC News compiles its coverage of the all the day's happenings, including the inaugural speech; outgoing president George W. Bush's helicopter exit; the president and first lady sharing their first dance at the star-studded Neighborhood Ball; and more.

A Moment in History - The Inauguration of Barack Obama

2009

Unforgettable poster
5.0

Brad Williams is only the second person ever studied by neurologists for the newly-identified syndrome called "hyperthymesia", an extremely detailed form of autobiographical memory for events both global and personal, monumental and trivial. UNFORGETTABLE follows Brad's adventures as his rare mental gifts vault him from small-town anonymity to sudden mid-life notoriety.

Unforgettable

2010

The Price of Gold poster
6.7

The world couldn't keep its eyes off two athletes at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer - Nancy Kerrigan, the elegant brunette from the Northeast, and Tonya Harding, the feisty blonde engulfed in scandal. Just weeks before the Olympics on Jan. 6, 1994 at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Kerrigan was stunningly clubbed on the right knee by an unknown assailant and left wailing, "Why, why, why?" As the bizarre "why" mystery unraveled, it was revealed that Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, had plotted the attack with his misfit friends to literally eliminate Kerrigan from the competition. Now two decades later, THE PRICE OF GOLD takes a fresh look through Harding's turbulent career and life at the spectacle that elevated the popularity of professional figure skating and has Harding still facing questions over what she knew and when she knew it.

The Price of Gold

2014

The Prophet of Prosperity: Robert Tilton and the Gospel of Greed poster
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Ok, let's admit it. We all miss him. Sure, there's Jan & Paul Crouch and even Pray TV's "hair apparent," Pastor Benny Hinn - but nobody, nobody, nobody can hold a collection plate up to "Brother Bob" Tilton. You know it. we know it. And most of all, he knows it.

The Prophet of Prosperity: Robert Tilton and the Gospel of Greed

2005

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