Laura Poitras
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 2, 1964
- Place of birth
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Movies with Laura Poitras
- Citizenfour 2014 · ★ 7.7
- Risk 2017 · ★ 6.6
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone 2016 · ★ 7.4
- Capturing Reality 2008 · ★ 6.1
- Meeting Snowden 2017 · ★ 7.0
Movies directed by Laura Poitras
- Citizenfour 2014 · ★ 7.7
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022 · ★ 7.1
- Risk 2017 · ★ 6.6
- Cover-Up 2025 · ★ 7.2
- The Oath 2010 · ★ 7.4
- Project X 2016 · ★ 6.3
- My Country, My Country 2006 · ★ 6.9
- The Year of the Everlasting Storm 2021 · ★ 6.4
- Flag Wars 2003 · ★ 4.5
- They're Here 2026 · ★ 7.2
- Terror Contagion 2021 · ★ 7.0
- Death of a Prisoner 2013 · ★ 4.0
- The Program 2012 · ★ 9.0
- O'Say Can You See 1 2011 · ★ 5.0
- O'Say Can You See 2 2011
- PRISM: Whistleblower 2013
- Deathtrap on the East River 2021
- Triple-Chaser 2019
- Renga 1989