
Laura Poitras
Directing
1964-02-02 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersMy Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile
2026 · Movie
TheatersThey're Here
2026 · Movie

Flood
2026 · Movie

Cover-Up
2025 · Movie

5 Seasons of Revolution
2023 · Movie

How to Have an American Baby
2023 · Movie

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022 · Movie

Relative
2022 · Movie

The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021 · Movie

Terror Contagion
2021 · Movie

Deathtrap on the East River
2021 · Movie

Landfall
2020 · Movie

Shooting the Mafia
2019 · Movie

Cablestreet
2019 · Movie

XY Chelsea
2019 · Movie

The Proposal
2019 · Movie

Triple-Chaser
2019 · Movie

Scenes from a Dry City
2019 · Movie

The Trial
2019 · Movie

Days of Black and Yellow
2019 · Movie

Ghosts of Sugar Land
2019 · Movie

Easter Snap
2019 · Movie

Libre
2019 · Movie

In the Absence
2018 · Movie

Crooked Lines
2018 · Movie

Lasting Marks
2018 · Movie

The Panama Papers
2018 · Movie

Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018 · Movie

Nuuca
2018 · Movie

Dancing with Le Pen
2018 · Movie

Discreet Airlift
2018 · Movie

Adversary
2018 · Movie

The Earth is Humming
2018 · Movie

Concussion Protocol
2018 · Movie

Crime + Punishment
2018 · Movie

Our New President
2018 · Movie

Graven Image
2017 · Movie

American Carnage
2017 · Movie

Personal Truth
2017 · Movie

A Night at the Garden
2017 · Movie

Gavin Grimm vs.
2017 · Movie

National Disintegrations
2017 · Movie

Duterte's Hell
2017 · Movie

Conditioned Response
2017 · Movie

Our New President
2017 · Movie

Picket Line
2017 · Movie

Код доступа
2017 · Series

Risk
2017 · Movie

Meeting Snowden
2017 · Movie

Clowns
2017 · Movie

The Moderators
2017 · Movie

Strong Island
2017 · Movie

Trump's Lobby
2017 · Movie

Relatively Free
2016 · Movie

Project X
2016 · Movie

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 · Movie

The Vote
2016 · Movie

The Journey
2016 · Movie

Like
2016 · Movie

Concerned Student 1950
2016 · Movie
Speaking Is Difficult
2016 · Movie

The Above
2015 · Movie

Citizenfour
2014 · Movie
Evaporating Borders
2014 · Movie

PRISM: Whistleblower
2013 · Movie

Death of a Prisoner
2013 · Movie

The Program
2012 · Movie

Keep the Lights On
2012 · Movie

O'Say Can You See 1
2011 · Movie

O'Say Can You See 2
2011 · Movie

The Oath
2010 · Movie

Capturing Reality
2008 · Movie

My Country, My Country
2006 · Movie

Flag Wars
2003 · Movie

The Daily Show
1996 · Series

Renga
1989 · Movie

POV
1988 · Series
German Film Award
1951 · Series
The Rashomon Effect
Movie