Laura Poitras
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
2 February 1964 (62 years)
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
Filmography
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | Beau Geste · as Self |
| 2017 | Meeting Snowden · as Self - Journalist (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | Risk · as Self (voice) |
| 2016 | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone · as Self - Co-Founder, The Intercept (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | The Oscars · as Self - Winner |
| 2014 | Citizenfour · as SelfOn Plex |
| 2008 | |
| 2006 | Doc Talk · as Self |
| 2004 | Le grand journal de Canal+ · as Self |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley · as Self |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher · as Self - Guest |
| 2002 | Zapp · as Self |
| 2001 | Democracy Now! · as Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show · as Self |
| 2025 | |
| 2025 | Flood · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | 5 Seasons of Revolution · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | How to Have an American Baby · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | RelativeOn Plex |
| 2021 | |
| 2020 | Landfall · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Church and the Fourth Estate · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Shooting the Mafia · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Ghosts of Sugar Land · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | XY Chelsea · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | The Art of Making Money · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | In the Absence · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Lasting Marks · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Panama Papers · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
| 2018 | Hale County This Morning, This Evening · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Crime + Punishment · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Personal Truth · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Proposal · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Our New President · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Nuuca · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | A Night at the Garden · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Strong Island · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Peace in the Valley · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Speaking Is Difficult · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | God Is an Artist · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | The Above · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | CitizenfourOn Plex |
| 2014 | Evaporating Borders · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | The Engineer · as Consulting Producer |
| 2011 | The Law in These Parts · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2003 | |
| 1999 | Independent Lens · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | Free Tibet · as Associate Producer |
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| 2014 | CitizenfourOn Plex |
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| 1988 |
| 2014 | CitizenfourOn Plex |
| 2006 |
| 2021 | The Year of the Everlasting Storm · as Director Of Photography |
| 2017 | Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press · as Executive Producer: Field Of Vision |
| 2016 | Risk · as Director Of Photography |
| 2016 | Risk · as Sound Recordist |
| 2016 | Risk · as Narration |
| 2014 | Citizenfour · as CinematographerOn Plex |
| 2014 | 1971 · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 2010 | The Oath · as Director Of Photography |
| 2009 | Convention · as Cinematographer |
| 2006 | My Country, My Country · as Director Of Photography |
| 2003 | Flag Wars · as Lead Cinematographer |
| 2003 | Flag Wars · as Sound Recordist |
| 1988 | P.O.V. · as Director Of Photography |