American director and producer of documentary films
Laura Poitras
Poitras in 2014
Born
(1964-02-02) February 2, 1964 (age 60)[1]
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.[2]
Education
The New School
Occupations
Director
producer
Website
praxisfilms.org
Laura Poitras (/ˈpɔɪtrəs/;[3] born February 2, 1964)[4] is an American director and producer of documentary films.[5]
Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden,[6][7] while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007.[8] She won the 2013 George Polk Award for national security reporting related to the NSA disclosures.[9] 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.[10][11][12][13][14] 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.
She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, 2012 MacArthur Fellow, the creator of Field of Vision,[15] and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. She was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard's Nieman Foundation in 2014.
Poitras was one of the founding editors of the online newspaper, The Intercept.[16] On November 30, 2020, Poitras was fired by First Look Media, the parent company of The Intercept, allegedly in relation to her criticism of The Intercept's handling of the Reality Winner controversy.[17][18]
^Citizenfour (Motion picture). 2014. Noted on US Customs and Border Protection logs shown at 0:04:40.
^"Laura Poitras". Whitney Museum of American Art. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
^"What it's like to turn the camera on Snowden and Assange". PBS NewsHour. July 21, 2017. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
^"Laura Poitras Talks 'Citizenfour' Nomination: Nominees Night Party", The Hollywood Reporter, archived from the original on April 5, 2015 Video interview. Pronunciation confirmed at beginning of video.
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"The inside story". The National. February 17, 2010. Archived from the original on June 7, 2015.
^"The 87th Academy Awards". oscars.org. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
^D'Addario, Daniel (February 22, 2015). "Citizenfour Wins Best Documentary at the Oscars". Time. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
^"Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour wins Oscar". The Guardian. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
^"2013 George Polk Award Winners". Long Island University. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
^"A Pulitzer triumph: Snowden reporting wins journalism's top prize". Retrieved April 20, 2014.
^"Greenwald, Poitras, Gellman, MacAskill: key in NSA coverage". Phys.org. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
^"Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations". Guardian. April 14, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
^Mirkinson, Jack. "The Pulitzer Prizes Just Demolished The Idea That Edward Snowden Is A Traitor". Retrieved April 17, 2014.
^"Filmmaker Laura Poitras' Work Rewarded With a Pulitzer Prize". April 14, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
^"Laura Poitras takes documentaries into the future with Field of Vision". The Guardian. September 30, 2015.
^"Laura Poitras". The Intercept. December 13, 2020. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
^Ellison, Sarah (January 14, 2021). "Laura Poitras says she's been fired by First Look Media over Reality Winner controversy. Now she's questioning the watchdog's integrity". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
^"Praxis Films". www.praxisfilms.org. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
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activist Nan Goldin. The film is produced, co-edited and directed by LauraPoitras, and tackles Goldin's life thought her advocacy during the HIV/AIDS...
employ. Snowden then contacted documentary filmmaker LauraPoitras in January 2013. According to Poitras, Snowden chose to contact her after seeing her New...
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was a miserable punishment. Mills and Glenn Greenwald joined director LauraPoitras on stage at the 87th Academy Awards to accept the Academy Award for...
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actress Julianne Moore was the Jury President of the Main competition. LauraPoitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was the winner of the Golden Lion...
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Directors' Fortnight Picks, Including New Films From Paul Schrader and LauraPoitras". Indiewire. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2016. "Phantom Films...
recognition of her progressive journalism. In February 2015, she (and LauraPoitras) received the 2014 I.F. Stone Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nieman...
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