Laura Poitras
Directing
Born February 2, 1964 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Directed (18)
Cover-Up
2025
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021
Terror Contagion
2021
Deathtrap on the East River
2021
Triple-Chaser
2019
Risk
2017
Project X
2016
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
My Country, My Country
2006
Flag Wars
2003
Renga
1989
