Known for
Directing
Credits
104
Gender
Woman
Birthday
2 Feb 1964 (60)
Place of birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also known as
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Laura Poitras
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
Acting roles
| Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Risk | Self (voice) |
| 2017 | Meeting Snowden | Self - Journalist (archive footage) |
| 2016 | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | Self, co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Citizenfour | Self |
| 2008 | Capturing Reality | Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1951 | Deutscher Filmpreis | Self |
Credits
| Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
|---|---|---|
| — | The Rashomon Effect | Executive Producer |
| 2023 | How to Have an American Baby | Executive Producer |
| 2023 | 5 Seasons of Revolution | Executive Producer |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Director |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Producer |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Camera Operator |
| 2022 | Relative | Producer |
| 2021 | The Year of the Everlasting Storm | Director |
| 2021 | The Year of the Everlasting Storm | Producer |
| 2021 | The Year of the Everlasting Storm | Director of Photography |
| 2021 | The Year of the Everlasting Storm | Editor |
| 2021 | Terror Contagion | Director |
| 2021 | Deathtrap on the East River | Director |
| 2020 | Landfall | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Ghosts of Sugar Land | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | XY Chelsea | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Shooting the Mafia | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Easter Snap | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | The Proposal | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Libre | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Triple-Chaser | Director |
| 2019 | The Trial | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Cablestreet | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Scenes from a Dry City | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Days of Black and Yellow | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Panama Papers | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | In the Absence | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Our New President | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Crime + Punishment | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Lasting Marks | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Nuuca | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Earth is Humming | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Concussion Protocol | Producer |
| 2018 | Dancing with Le Pen | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Discreet Airlift | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Adversary | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Crooked Lines | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Strong Island | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Risk | Director |
| 2017 | Risk | Editor |
| 2017 | Risk | Director of Photography |
| 2017 | Risk | Sound Recordist |
| 2017 | Risk | Producer |
| 2017 | A Night at the Garden | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | The Moderators | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Our New President | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Conditioned Response | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Trump's Lobby | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Duterte's Hell | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Gavin Grimm vs. | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | National Disintegrations | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Graven Image | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Personal Truth | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Clowns | Producer |
| 2017 | American Carnage | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Picket Line | Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Project X | Director |
| 2016 | Like | Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Speaking Is Difficult | Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Relatively Free | Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Concerned Student 1950 | Executive Producer |
| 2016 | The Journey | Executive Producer |
| 2016 | The Vote | Producer |
| 2014 | Citizenfour | Director |
| 2014 | Citizenfour | Producer |
| 2013 | Death of a Prisoner | Director |
| 2013 | Death of a Prisoner | Editor |
| 2013 | Death of a Prisoner | Director of Photography |
| 2013 | PRISM: Whistleblower | Editor |
| 2013 | PRISM: Whistleblower | Director |
| 2013 | PRISM: Whistleblower | Cinematography |
| 2012 | The Program | Editor |
| 2012 | The Program | Director |
| 2012 | The Program | Director of Photography |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 1 | Director of Photography |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 1 | Producer |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 1 | Editor |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 1 | Director |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 2 | Producer |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 2 | Editor |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 2 | Director |
| 2010 | The Oath | Director |
| 2010 | The Oath | Producer |
| 2010 | The Oath | Director of Photography |
| 2006 | My Country, My Country | Director |
| 2006 | My Country, My Country | Editor |
| 2006 | My Country, My Country | Producer |
| 2006 | My Country, My Country | Director of Photography |
| 2003 | Flag Wars | Director |
| 2003 | Flag Wars | Sound Recordist |
| 2003 | Flag Wars | Producer |
| 2003 | Flag Wars | Cinematography |
| 1989 | Renga | Director |
| 1988 | POV | Director |
| 1988 | POV | Producer |
| 1988 | POV | Director of Photography |