Laura Poitras

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Laura Poitras

Directing 62 February 2, 1964

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 201…

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The Daily Show

The Daily Show

6.4 1996 TV Show
Citizenfour

Citizenfour

7.7 2014 Movie
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

7.1 2022 Movie
Point of View

Point of View

6.9 1988 TV Show
Keep the Lights On

Keep the Lights On

5.7 2012 Movie
Strong Island

Strong Island

6.3 2017 Movie
Cover-Up

Cover-Up

7.0 2025 Movie
Risk

Risk

6.6 2017 Movie
The Panama Papers

The Panama Papers

6.7 2018 Movie
Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

6.1 2018 Movie
A Night at the Garden

A Night at the Garden

6.3 2017 Movie
In the Absence

In the Absence

7.7 2018 Movie

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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 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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile

    Movie Executive Producer

  2. 2026
    They're Here

    Movie Editor

  3. 2026
    Flood

    Movie Executive Producer

  4. 2025
    Cover-Up

    Movie Director

  5. 2023
    5 Seasons of Revolution

    Movie Executive Producer

  6. 2023
    How to Have an American Baby

    Movie Executive Producer

  7. 2022
    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    Movie Director

  8. 2022
    Relative

    Movie Producer

  9. 2021
    The Year of the Everlasting Storm

    Movie Director

  10. 2021
    Terror Contagion

    Movie Director

  11. 2021
    Deathtrap on the East River

    Movie Director

  12. 2020
    Landfall

    Movie Executive Producer

  13. 2019
    Shooting the Mafia

    Movie Executive Producer

  14. 2019
    Cablestreet

    Movie Executive Producer

  15. 2019
    XY Chelsea

    Movie Executive Producer

  16. 2019
    The Proposal

    Movie Executive Producer

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  1. 2019
    Triple-Chaser

    Movie Director

  2. 2019
    Scenes from a Dry City

    Movie Executive Producer

  3. 2019
    The Trial

    Movie Executive Producer

  4. 2019
    Days of Black and Yellow

    Movie Executive Producer

  5. 2019
    Ghosts of Sugar Land

    Movie Executive Producer

  6. 2019
    Easter Snap

    Movie Executive Producer

  7. 2019
    Libre

    Movie Executive Producer

  8. 2018
    In the Absence

    Movie Executive Producer

  9. 2018
    Crooked Lines

    Movie Executive Producer

  10. 2018
    Lasting Marks

    Movie Executive Producer

  11. 2018
    The Panama Papers

    Movie Executive Producer

  12. 2018
    Hale County This Morning, This Evening

    Movie Executive Producer

  13. 2018
    Nuuca

    Movie Executive Producer

  14. 2018
    Dancing with Le Pen

    Movie Executive Producer

  15. 2018
    Discreet Airlift

    Movie Executive Producer

  16. 2018
    Adversary

    Movie Executive Producer

  17. 2018
    The Earth is Humming

    Movie Executive Producer

  18. 2018
    Concussion Protocol

    Movie Producer

  19. 2018
    Crime + Punishment

    Movie Executive Producer

  20. 2018
    Our New President

    Movie Executive Producer

  21. 2017
    Graven Image

    Movie Executive Producer

  22. 2017
    American Carnage

    Movie Executive Producer

  23. 2017
    Personal Truth

    Movie Executive Producer

  24. 2017
    A Night at the Garden

    Movie Executive Producer