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 72
Movies 69
Producer 51
Director 16
self 4
TV Shows 3
Executive Producer
5 Seasons of Revolution (2023)
Movie
Executive Producer
How to Have an American Baby (2023)
Movie
Director
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Movie
7.5
Producer
Relative (2022)
Movie
Director
The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)
Movie
Director
Terror Contagion (2021)
Movie
Director
Deathtrap on the East River (2021)
Movie
Executive Producer
Landfall (2020)
Movie
Executive Producer
Shooting the Mafia (2019)
Movie
Executive Producer
Cablestreet (2019)
Movie
Executive Producer
XY Chelsea (2019)
Movie
Executive Producer
The Proposal (2019)
Movie
Director
Triple-Chaser (2019)
Movie
Executive Producer
Scenes from a Dry City (2019)
Movie
Executive Producer
The Trial (2019)
Movie
Executive Producer
Days of Black and Yellow (2019)
Movie
Executive Producer
Ghosts of Sugar Land (2019)
Movie
Executive Producer
Easter Snap (2019)
Movie
Executive Producer
Libre (2019)
Movie
Executive Producer
In the Absence (2018)
Movie
6
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Crooked Lines (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
Lasting Marks (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
The Panama Papers (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
Nuuca (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
Dancing with Le Pen (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
Discreet Airlift (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
Adversary (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
The Earth is Humming (2018)
Movie
Producer
Concussion Protocol (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
Crime + Punishment (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
Our New President (2018)
Movie
Executive Producer
Graven Image (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
American Carnage (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
Personal Truth (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
A Night at the Garden (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
Gavin Grimm vs. (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
National Disintegrations (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
Duterte's Hell (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
Conditioned Response (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
Our New President (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
Picket Line (2017)
Movie
Director
Risk (2017)
Movie
5.29
Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Meeting Snowden (2017)
Movie
Producer
Clowns (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
The Moderators (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
Strong Island (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
Trump's Lobby (2017)
Movie
Executive Producer
Relatively Free (2016)
Movie
Director
Project X (2016)
Movie
Self, co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)
Movie
Producer
The Vote (2016)
Movie
Executive Producer
The Journey (2016)
Movie
Executive Producer
Like (2016)
Movie
Executive Producer
Concerned Student 1950 (2016)
Movie
Executive Producer
Speaking Is Difficult (2016)
Movie
Producer
The Surrender (2015)
Movie
Director
Citizenfour (2014)
Movie
6
Director / Editor / Cinematography
PRISM: Whistleblower (2013)
Movie
Director
Death of a Prisoner (2013)
Movie
Director
The Program (2012)
Movie
Director
O'Say Can You See 1 (2011)
Movie
Director / Editor / Producer
O'Say Can You See 2 (2011)
Movie
Director
The Oath (2010)
Movie
Self
Capturing Reality (2008)
Movie
Director
My Country, My Country (2006)
Movie
Director
Flag Wars (2003)
Movie
Self
The Daily Show (1996)
TV
6.75
Director
Renga (1989)
Movie
Director of Photography / Director / Producer
POV (1988)
TV
Self
Deutscher Filmpreis (1951)
TV
Executive Producer
The Rashomon Effect
Movie
Ratings
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Information
Known ForDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday1964-02-02 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceBoston, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesNew York City, United States of America
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize, Marion Dönhoff Award, Golden Lion, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, EFF Pioneer Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Medal Carl von Ossietzky, George Polk Award, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medaille
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