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Laura Poitras
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Laura Poitras is an American film producer, director, journalist, and camera operator. Born in Boston in 1964, she is educated at The New School and resides in New York City. Her professional career began in 1998, and she has been employed by The Intercept.
Poitras has received the EFF Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program award, and George Polk Award. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film and participated in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Her works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and are recognized in the Pulitzer Prize, Macarthur Fellows, Golden Lion, and Academy Award Best Documentary collections.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Josh Kline
- Diagrams of Power
- Risk
- Astro noise
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Film & TV
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…
Known for
- Risk — Self (voice)2017
- Meeting Snowden — Self - Journalist (archive footage)2017
- Код доступа — Self2017
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone — Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage)2016
- Citizenfour — Self2014
- Capturing Reality — Self2008
- The Daily Show — Self1996
- German Film Award — Self1951
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1964-02-02 ) February 2, 1964 (age 62) , Boston , Massachusetts, U.S.
- Education
- The New School
- Occupations
- Director producer
- Website
- praxisfilms .org
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Laura
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Occupation
- documentarian
- Educated at
- The New School
- Employer
- The Intercept
- Participant in
- 2016 Cannes Film Festival
- Official website
- praxisfilms.org
- Image
- Laura Poitras 2014.jpg
- Residence
- New York City
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- date of birth
- 1964-02-02
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- Laura Poitras
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
- name in native language
- Laura Poitras
- public key fingerprint
- 3217 C509 292F C670 76EC D75C 7614 269B DDF7 3B36
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Laura Poitras
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- described by source
- African Film Festival, Inc.
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Encyclopedic overview
Laura Poitras (/ˈpɔɪtrəs/; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films.
Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 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 Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post. In 2022, her documentary film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which explores the career of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family, was awarded the Golden Lion, making it the second documentary to win the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. The film then won a Peabody Award at the 84th ceremony in 2024 for "capturing the zeal of an artist eager to use her work to create a new vision for and of the world."
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