Laura Poitras

Directing

Born: 1964-02-02
From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gender: Female
Popularity: 0.3

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.

Awards & Nominations12 won · 2 nominated

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2023
🏆 Won

Golden Lion

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

2022
🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

Citizenfour

2015
🏆 Won

Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize

2014
🏆 Won

Carl von Ossietzky Medal

2014
🏆 Won

Medal Carl von Ossietzky

2014
🏆 Won

Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

2014
🏆 Won

EFF Award

2013
🏆 Won

George Polk Award

2013
🏆 Won

MacArthur Fellows Program

2012
🏆 Won

Anonymous Was A Woman Award

2010
🏆 Won

Guggenheim Fellowship

2007
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

My Country, My Country

2007
🏆 Won

Marion Dönhoff Award

Acting7 titles

Directing19 titles

Production58 titles

Camera9 titles

Sound2 titles

Editing9 titles

Crew3 titles