Person

Laura Poitras

Directing · Born 1964-02-02 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

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.

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Filmography

2026FloodExecutive Producer
2025Cover-UpDirector
20235 Seasons of RevolutionExecutive Producer
2023How to Have an American BabyExecutive Producer
2022All the Beauty and the BloodshedDirector
2022RelativeProducer
2021The Year of the Everlasting StormDirector
2021Terror ContagionDirector
2021Deathtrap on the East RiverDirector
2020LandfallExecutive Producer
2019Shooting the MafiaExecutive Producer
2019CablestreetExecutive Producer
2019XY ChelseaExecutive Producer
2019The ProposalExecutive Producer
2019Triple-ChaserDirector
2019Scenes from a Dry CityExecutive Producer
2019The TrialExecutive Producer
2019Days of Black and YellowExecutive Producer
2019Ghosts of Sugar LandExecutive Producer
2019LibreExecutive Producer
2019Easter SnapExecutive Producer
2018In the AbsenceExecutive Producer
2018Crooked LinesExecutive Producer
2018Lasting MarksExecutive Producer
2018The Panama PapersExecutive Producer
2018Hale County This Morning, This EveningExecutive Producer
2018NuucaExecutive Producer
2018Dancing with Le PenExecutive Producer
2018Discreet AirliftExecutive Producer
2018AdversaryExecutive Producer
2018The Earth is HummingExecutive Producer
2018Concussion ProtocolProducer
2018Crime + PunishmentExecutive Producer
2018Our New PresidentExecutive Producer
2017Graven ImageExecutive Producer
2017American CarnageExecutive Producer
2017Personal TruthExecutive Producer
2017A Night at the GardenExecutive Producer
2017Gavin Grimm vs.Executive Producer
2017National DisintegrationsExecutive Producer
2017Duterte's HellExecutive Producer
2017Conditioned ResponseExecutive Producer
2017Our New PresidentExecutive Producer
2017Picket LineExecutive Producer
2017Код доступаSelf
2017RiskSelf (voice)
2017Meeting SnowdenSelf - Journalist (archive footage)
2017ClownsProducer
2017The ModeratorsExecutive Producer
2017Strong IslandExecutive Producer
2017Trump's LobbyExecutive Producer
2016Relatively FreeExecutive Producer
2016Project XDirector
2016All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. StoneSelf - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
2016The VoteProducer
2016The JourneyExecutive Producer
2016LikeExecutive Producer
2016Concerned Student 1950Executive Producer
2016Speaking Is DifficultExecutive Producer
2014CitizenfourSelf
2014Evaporating BordersExecutive Producer
2013PRISM: WhistleblowerDirector
2013Death of a PrisonerDirector
2012The ProgramDirector
2012Keep the Lights OnThanks
2011O'Say Can You See 1Producer
2011O'Say Can You See 2Director
2010The OathDirector
2008Capturing RealitySelf
2006My Country, My CountryDirector
2003Flag WarsDirector
1996The Daily ShowSelf
1989RengaDirector
1988Point of ViewProducer
1951German Film AwardSelf
—The Rashomon EffectExecutive Producer
—They're HereEditor

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