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.

Directed

1. Citizenfour (2014) — Director
2. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) — Director
3. Risk (2017) — Director
4. Cover-Up (2025) — Director
5. The Oath (2010) — Director
6. Project X (2016) — Director
7. My Country, My Country (2006) — Director
8. Point of View (1988) — Director
9. The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021) — Director
10. Flag Wars (2003) — Director
11. Terror Contagion (2021) — Director
12. The Program (2012) — Director
13. Death of a Prisoner (2013) — Director
14. O'Say Can You See 1 (2011) — Director
15. O'Say Can You See 2 (2011) — Director
16. PRISM: Whistleblower (2013) — Director
17. Deathtrap on the East River (2021) — Director
18. Triple-Chaser (2019) — Director
19. Renga (1989) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Citizenfour (2014) — Self
2. The Daily Show (1996) — Self
3. Risk (2017) — Self (voice)
4. All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016) — Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
5. Capturing Reality (2008) — Self
6. Meeting Snowden (2017) — Self - Journalist (archive footage)
7. German Film Award (1951) — Self
8. Код доступа (2017) — Self