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Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras

Known For Directing
Birthday Feb 02, 1964 (61)
Birthplace Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Popularity 0.6 (history)
Updated Jul 22, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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.

Known For

Filmography

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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2022

Camera Operator

Risk

Risk

2017

Sound Recordist, Editor, Director of Photography

Death of a Prisoner

Death of a Prisoner

2013

Editor, Director of Photography

The Program

The Program

2012

Editor, Director of Photography

The Oath

The Oath

2010

Director of Photography

My Country, My Country

My Country, My Country

2006

Editor, Director of Photography

Flag Wars

Flag Wars

2003

Sound Recordist, Cinematography

Terror Contagion

Terror Contagion

2021

Director

Risk

Risk

2017

Director

Project X

Project X

2016

Director

Citizenfour

Citizenfour

2014

Director

Death of a Prisoner

Death of a Prisoner

2013

Director

The Program

The Program

2012

Director

The Oath

The Oath

2010

Director

My Country, My Country

My Country, My Country

2006

Director

Flag Wars

Flag Wars

2003

Director

How to Have an American Baby

How to Have an American Baby

2023

Executive Producer

Relative

Relative

2022

Producer

Shooting the Mafia

Shooting the Mafia

2019

Executive Producer

XY Chelsea

XY Chelsea

2019

Executive Producer

Ghosts of Sugar Land

Ghosts of Sugar Land

2019

Executive Producer

Easter Snap

Easter Snap

2019

Executive Producer

Days of Black and Yellow

Days of Black and Yellow

2019

Executive Producer

The Proposal

The Proposal

2019

Executive Producer

Scenes from a Dry City

Scenes from a Dry City

2019

Executive Producer

Lasting Marks

Lasting Marks

2018

Executive Producer

Discreet Airlift

Discreet Airlift

2018

Executive Producer

Crime + Punishment

Crime + Punishment

2018

Executive Producer

Adversary

Adversary

2018

Executive Producer

The Panama Papers

The Panama Papers

2018

Executive Producer

Our New President

Our New President

2018

Executive Producer

Crooked Lines

Crooked Lines

2018

Executive Producer

Nuuca

Nuuca

2018

Executive Producer

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

2018

Executive Producer

Strong Island

Strong Island

2017

Executive Producer

Risk

Risk

2017

Producer

The Moderators

The Moderators

2017

Executive Producer

A Night at the Garden

A Night at the Garden

2017

Executive Producer

Conditioned Response

Conditioned Response

2017

Executive Producer

American Carnage

American Carnage

2017

Executive Producer

Graven Image

Graven Image

2017

Executive Producer

Trump's Lobby

Trump's Lobby

2017

Executive Producer

Our New President

Our New President

2017

Executive Producer

Gavin Grimm vs.

Gavin Grimm vs.

2017

Executive Producer

Relatively Free

Relatively Free

2016

Executive Producer

Like

Like

2016

Executive Producer

Concerned Student 1950

Concerned Student 1950

2016

Executive Producer

Speaking Is Difficult

Speaking Is Difficult

2016

Executive Producer

Citizenfour

Citizenfour

2014

Producer

The Oath

The Oath

2010

Producer

My Country, My Country

My Country, My Country

2006

Producer

Flag Wars

Flag Wars

2003

Producer

Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

No data available

The Daily Show

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 22, 1996

Deutscher Filmpreis

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1951

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