Laura Poitras
American documentary film director and producer (born 1964)
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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…
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- 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 — Self
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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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