- One of Russia's most acclaimed documentary filmmakers.
- Is a member of the Russian Academy of Television.
- Goldovskaya is credited as the first woman in Russia to be the combined director, writer, cinematographer, and producer of her films.
- Her autobiography, "A Woman With a Movie Camera," was translated by Antonina W. Bouis and published by University of Texas Press.
- In the mid-1990s she moved to California and taught at the UCLA School of Film and Television in Los Angeles.
- She was a Russian-American documentary film maker known for her candid portrayal of people.
- Goldovskaya graduated from the institute in 1963 as a camera operator, one of three women at the film school.
- The filmmaker Vitaly Manski wrote on his Facebook page, "She was vibrant and incredibly talented. She was a woman documentary filmmaker with a camera in her hand at a time when she was the exception to all the rules. She made her own rules, and she was always victorious.".
- She was "a woman with a movie camera" when women didn't make movies.
- Goldovskaya made nearly one hundred documentaries, many of which were intimate portraits of her subjects. She is perhaps best known for her work during the late Soviet and early post-Soviet period that opened doors into the inner lives of people living in a time of great change.
- One of her first jobs was working as the assistant camera operator for Andrei Tarkovsky.
- Goldovskaya documented ordinary people, seamstresses, a female astronaut, literary and artistic legends, as well as political leaders.
- She won many awards for "Arkhangelsky Peasant" about the first private farmer in the Soviet Union in 1989 and for "The Bitter Taste of Freedom" about murdered journalist Anna Politskovskaya, made in 2011.
- Goldovskaya was born in to one of the Soviet Union's most famous film families. Her father was Yevsei Goldovsky, an inventor and academic who was one of the founders of the All-Russian State Institute for Cinematography (VGIK).
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