Laura Poitras
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Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-winning American documentary film director and producer residing in Berlin. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden. while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007. She won the 2013 George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellmancontributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Born: February 2, 1964 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Filmography (26)
Cover-Up
2025
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021
Shooting the Mafia
2019
XY Chelsea
2019
Ghosts of Sugar Land
2019
In the Absence
2018
The Panama Papers
2018
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018
Crime + Punishment
2018
Our New President
2018
A Night at the Garden
2017
Risk
2017
Meeting Snowden
2017
Strong Island
2017
Project X
2016
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
Like
2016
Citizenfour
2014
Keep the Lights On
2012
The Oath
2010
Capturing Reality
2008
My Country, My Country
2006
Flag Wars
2003
The Daily Show
1996
POV
1988