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Laura Poitras

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Born February 2, 1964 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Laura Poitras is an American director and producer of documentary films.

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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

Filmography24 titles

How to Have an American Baby

2023Executive Producer

Citizenfour

2014as Self

Relative

2022Producer

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

2016as Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)

Shooting the Mafia

2019Executive Producer

Crime + Punishment

2018Executive Producer

Cover-Up

2025Director, Editor, Producer

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2022Camera Operator, Director, Producer

Meeting Snowden

2017as Self - Journalist (archive footage)

P.O.V.

1988Director, Director of Photography, Producer

The Panama Papers

2018Executive Producer

Risk

2016as Self (voice)

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

2021Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer

Our New President

2018Executive Producer

Strong Island

2017Executive Producer

The Daily Show

1996as Self

Project X

2016Director

The Proposal

2018Executive Producer

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

2018Executive Producer

XY Chelsea

2019Executive Producer

Ghosts of Sugar Land

2019Executive Producer

Keep the Lights On

2012Thanks

Easter Snap

2019Executive Producer

Landfall

2020Executive Producer