Laura Poitras

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.

Laura Poitras is known for work in directing across film and television. New Release currently presents 26 verified screen credits connected to this profile. Selected work includes All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016), Citizenfour (2014), The Daily Show (1996), POV (1988), German Film Award (1951), Cover-Up (2025), All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), Strong Island (2017). The recorded credits span 1951 to 2026, including 22 movies and 4 TV shows. The filmography below lists available titles, release years and known roles. This profile is updated as additional verified information becomes available.