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Laura Poitras

Known for: Directing

Biography: 1964-02-02 (61 years old)

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.

Filmography

all 73

Movies 70

Producer 53

Director 12

self 6

TV Shows 3

Executive Producer

Laura Poitras

Biography

Filmography

all 73

Movies 70

Producer 53

Director 12

self 6

TV Shows 3

5 Seasons of Revolution (2023)

How to Have an American Baby (2023)

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)

Relative (2022)

Terror Contagion (2021)

The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)

Deathtrap on the East River (2021)

Landfall (2020)

Shooting the Mafia (2019)

Cablestreet (2019)

XY Chelsea (2019)

The Proposal (2019)

Triple-Chaser (2019)

Scenes from a Dry City (2019)

The Trial (2019)

Days of Black and Yellow (2019)

Ghosts of Sugar Land (2019)

Easter Snap (2019)

Libre (2019)

In the Absence (2018)

Crooked Lines (2018)

Lasting Marks (2018)

The Panama Papers (2018)

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)

Nuuca (2018)

Dancing with Le Pen (2018)

Discreet Airlift (2018)

Adversary (2018)

The Earth is Humming (2018)

Concussion Protocol (2018)

Crime + Punishment (2018)

Our New President (2018)

Graven Image (2017)

American Carnage (2017)

Personal Truth (2017)

A Night at the Garden (2017)

Gavin Grimm vs. (2017)

National Disintegrations (2017)

Duterte's Hell (2017)

Conditioned Response (2017)

Our New President (2017)

Picket Line (2017)

Risk (2017)

Meeting Snowden (2017)

Clowns (2017)

The Moderators (2017)

Strong Island (2017)

Trump's Lobby (2017)

Relatively Free (2016)

Project X (2016)

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)

The Vote (2016)

The Journey (2016)

Like (2016)

Concerned Student 1950 (2016)

Speaking Is Difficult (2016)

The Surrender (2015)

Citizenfour (2014)

PRISM: Whistleblower (2013)

Death of a Prisoner (2013)

The Program (2012)

O'Say Can You See 2 (2011)

O'Say Can You See 1 (2011)

The Oath (2010)

Convention (2009)

Capturing Reality (2008)

My Country, My Country (2006)

Flag Wars (2003)

The Daily Show (1996)

Renga (1989)

POV (1988)

Known For
Directing

Gender
Female

Birthday
1964-02-02 (61 years old)

Birth Place
Boston, United States

Citizenships
United States of America

Residences
New York City, United States of America