Laura Poitras
Born: 1964-02-02 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Flood ... (Executive Producer)
- They're Here ... (Editor)
2025
- Cover-Up ... (Director)
2023
- 5 Seasons of Revolution ... (Executive Producer)
- How to Have an American Baby ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed ... (Director)
- Relative ... (Producer)
2021
- The Year of the Everlasting Storm ... (Director)
- Terror Contagion ... (Director)
- Deathtrap on the East River ... (Director)
2020
- Landfall ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- Shooting the Mafia ... (Executive Producer)
- XY Chelsea ... (Executive Producer)
- Easter Snap ... (Executive Producer)
- Ghosts of Sugar Land ... (Executive Producer)
- Days of Black and Yellow ... (Executive Producer)
- The Proposal ... (Executive Producer)
- Triple-Chaser ... (Director)
- Cablestreet ... (Executive Producer)
- Scenes from a Dry City ... (Executive Producer)
- Libre ... (Executive Producer)
- The Trial ... (Executive Producer)
2018
- Crooked Lines ... (Executive Producer)
- The Panama Papers ... (Executive Producer)
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening ... (Executive Producer)
- Our New President ... (Executive Producer)
- In the Absence ... (Executive Producer)
- Dancing with Le Pen ... (Executive Producer)
- Lasting Marks ... (Executive Producer)
- Crime + Punishment ... (Executive Producer)
- The Earth is Humming ... (Executive Producer)
- Adversary ... (Executive Producer)
- Nuuca ... (Executive Producer)
- Discreet Airlift ... (Executive Producer)
- Concussion Protocol ... (Producer)
2017
- Код доступа as Self
- Conditioned Response ... (Executive Producer)
- Picket Line ... (Executive Producer)
- Strong Island ... (Executive Producer)
- Clowns ... (Producer)
- Risk as Self (voice)
- A Night at the Garden ... (Executive Producer)
- Graven Image ... (Executive Producer)
- Meeting Snowden as Self - Journalist (archive footage)
- Our New President ... (Executive Producer)
- American Carnage ... (Executive Producer)
- National Disintegrations ... (Executive Producer)
- Personal Truth ... (Executive Producer)
- Gavin Grimm vs. ... (Executive Producer)
- Trump's Lobby ... (Executive Producer)
- The Moderators ... (Executive Producer)
- Duterte's Hell ... (Executive Producer)
2016
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone as Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
- Project X ... (Director)
- Like ... (Executive Producer)
- Relatively Free ... (Executive Producer)
- The Vote ... (Producer)
- The Journey ... (Executive Producer)
- Concerned Student 1950 ... (Executive Producer)
- Speaking Is Difficult ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- Citizenfour as Self
- Evaporating Borders ... (Executive Producer)
2013
- PRISM: Whistleblower ... (Director)
- Death of a Prisoner ... (Director)
2012
- Keep the Lights On ... (Thanks)
- The Program ... (Director)
2011
- O'Say Can You See 1 ... (Director of Photography)
- O'Say Can You See 2 ... (Director)
2010
- The Oath ... (Director)
2008
- Capturing Reality as Self
2006
- My Country, My Country ... (Director)
2003
- Flag Wars ... (Director)
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
1989
- Renga ... (Director)
1988
- Point of View ... (Producer)
1951
- German Film Award as Self