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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.

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