Laura Poitras

Birthday: 1964-02-02
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gender: Female

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.

Credits

Year Title
2022-11-23 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2021-09-03 The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021-09-03 Terror Contagion
2021-05-28 Deathtrap on the East River
2019-05-17 Triple-Chaser
2017-05-05 Risk
2016-11-18 Project X
2014-10-10 Citizenfour
2013-06-09 PRISM: Whistleblower
2013-01-10 Death of a Prisoner
2012-08-22 The Program
2011-01-01 O'Say Can You See 2
2011-01-01 O'Say Can You See 1
2010-05-09 The Oath
2006-08-06 My Country, My Country
2003-05-01 Flag Wars
1989-01-01 Renga