Known For
Directing
Known Credits
8
Gender
Female
Birthday
February 2, 1964 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
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 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.
| 2025 | Cover-Up...Director | |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed...Director | |
| 2021 | Terror Contagion...Director | |
| 2021 | The Year of the Everlasting Storm...Director | |
| 2021 | Deathtrap on the East River...Director | |
| 2019 | Triple-Chaser...Director | |
| 2017 | Risk...Director | |
| 2016 | Project X...Director | |
| 2014 | Citizenfour...Director | |
| 2013 | PRISM: Whistleblower...Director | |
| 2013 | Death of a Prisoner...Director | |
| 2012 | The Program...Director | |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 1...Director | |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 2...Director | |
| 2010 | The Oath...Director | |
| 2006 | My Country, My Country...Director | |
| 2003 | Flag Wars...Director | |
| 1989 | Renga...Director | |
| 1988 | POV...Director |
| 2025 | Cover-Up...Producer | |
| 2025 | Flood...Executive Producer | |
| 2023 | 5 Seasons of Revolution...Executive Producer | |
| 2023 | How to Have an American Baby...Executive Producer | |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed...Producer | |
| 2022 | Relative...Producer | |
| 2021 | The Year of the Everlasting Storm...Producer | |
| 2020 | Landfall...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Shooting the Mafia...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Cablestreet...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | The Proposal...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | XY Chelsea...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Scenes from a Dry City...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | The Trial...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Days of Black and Yellow...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Ghosts of Sugar Land...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Easter Snap...Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Libre...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | In the Absence...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Crooked Lines...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Lasting Marks...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | The Panama Papers...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Hale County This Morning, This Evening...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Nuuca...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Dancing with Le Pen...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Discreet Airlift...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Adversary...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | The Earth is Humming...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Concussion Protocol...Producer | |
| 2018 | Crime + Punishment...Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Our New President...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Graven Image...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | American Carnage...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Personal Truth...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | A Night at the Garden...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Gavin Grimm vs....Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | National Disintegrations...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Duterte's Hell...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Conditioned Response...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Our New President...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Picket Line...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Risk...Producer | |
| 2017 | Clowns...Producer | |
| 2017 | The Moderators...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Strong Island...Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | Trump's Lobby...Executive Producer | |
| 2016 | Relatively Free...Executive Producer | |
| 2016 | The Vote...Producer | |
| 2016 | The Journey...Executive Producer | |
| 2016 | Like...Executive Producer | |
| 2016 | Concerned Student 1950...Executive Producer | |
| 2016 | Speaking Is Difficult...Executive Producer | |
| 2014 | Citizenfour...Producer | |
| 2014 | Evaporating Borders...Executive Producer | |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 1...Producer | |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 2...Producer | |
| 2010 | The Oath...Producer | |
| 2006 | My Country, My Country...Producer | |
| 2003 | Flag Wars...Producer | |
| 1988 | POV...Producer | |
| The Rashomon Effect...Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Cover-Up...Editor | |
| 2021 | The Year of the Everlasting Storm...Editor | |
| 2017 | Risk...Editor | |
| 2013 | PRISM: Whistleblower...Editor | |
| 2013 | Death of a Prisoner...Editor | |
| 2012 | The Program...Editor | |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 1...Editor | |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 2...Editor | |
| 2006 | My Country, My Country...Editor |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed...Camera Operator | |
| 2021 | The Year of the Everlasting Storm...Director of Photography | |
| 2017 | Risk...Director of Photography | |
| 2013 | Death of a Prisoner...Director of Photography | |
| 2012 | The Program...Director of Photography | |
| 2011 | O'Say Can You See 1...Director of Photography | |
| 2010 | The Oath...Director of Photography | |
| 2006 | My Country, My Country...Director of Photography | |
| 1988 | POV...Director of Photography |
| 2017 | Risk...Sound Recordist | |
| 2003 | Flag Wars...Sound Recordist |
| 2013 | PRISM: Whistleblower...Cinematography | |
| 2012 | Keep the Lights On...Thanks | |
| 2003 | Flag Wars...Cinematography |
| 2017 | Код доступаas Self | |
| 2017 | Riskas Self (voice) | |
| 2017 | Meeting Snowdenas Self - Journalist (archive footage) | |
| 2016 | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stoneas Self - Co-founder, The Intercept (archive footage) | |
| 2014 | Citizenfouras Self | |
| 2008 | Capturing Realityas Self | |
| 1996 | The Daily Showas Self | |
| 1951 | German Film Awardas Self |
