Laura Poitras
Directing
- Born
- February 2, 1964 (age 62) · 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.
Known for
Citizenfour
October 10, 2014
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
November 23, 2022
Strong Island
January 23, 2017
Risk
May 5, 2017
The Panama Papers
October 6, 2018
A Night at the Garden
September 24, 2017
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
September 14, 2018
Cover-Up
December 19, 2025
In the Absence
November 9, 2018
Ghosts of Sugar Land
January 26, 2019
The Oath
May 9, 2010
Project X
November 18, 2016
Behind the camera71
- 2026My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile Executive Producer
- 2026They're Here Editor, Producer, Director
- 2026Flood Executive Producer
- 2025Cover-Up Director, Producer, Editor
- 20235 Seasons of Revolution Executive Producer
- 2023How to Have an American Baby Executive Producer
- 2022All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Director, Producer, Camera Operator
- 2022Relative Producer
- 2021The Year of the Everlasting Storm Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor