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.
Awards & recognition
- Golden Lion · 2022
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 2015
- Carl von Ossietzky Medal · 2014
- Medal Carl von Ossietzky · 2014
- Pulitzer Prize — Public Service · 2014
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- Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize · 2014
- EFF Award · 2013
- George Polk Award · 2013
- MacArthur Fellows Program · 2012
- Anonymous Was A Woman Award · 2010
- Guggenheim Fellowship · 2007
- Marion Dönhoff Award
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 2023 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 2007 · nominated
Filmography21 titles
Citizenfour
Relative
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Shooting the Mafia
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Crime + Punishment
Cover-Up
Meeting Snowden
P.O.V.
The Panama Papers
Risk
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Our New President
Strong Island
The Daily Show
Project X
The Proposal
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
XY Chelsea
Ghosts of Sugar Land
Keep the Lights On