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
Cast Credits
Risk
Character: Self (voice)
MOVIE • 2017
Meeting Snowden
Character: Self - Journalist (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2017
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Character: Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2016
Citizenfour
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2014
Capturing Reality
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2008
The Daily Show
Character: Self
TV • 1996
German Film Award
Character: Self
TV • 1951
Crew
Crew Credits
Cover-Up
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2025
Cover-Up
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2025
Cover-Up
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2025
5 Seasons of Revolution
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2023
How to Have an American Baby
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2023
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2022
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2022
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Role: Camera Operator
MOVIE • 2022
Relative
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2022
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2021
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2021
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 2021
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2021
Terror Contagion
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2021
Deathtrap on the East River
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2021
Landfall
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2020
Shooting the Mafia
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2019
Cablestreet
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2019
XY Chelsea
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2019
The Proposal
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2019