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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
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Laura Poitras
Born 1962-01-16 (64 years ago) in Boston, Massachusetts..
| Award | Year |
|---|---|
| Sundance Film Festival Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary (The Oath) | 2010 |
| Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary (The Oath) | 2010 |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | 2007 |
| Award | Year |
|---|---|
| News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary (POV) | 2011 |
| News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form (POV) | 2011 |
| Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary (The Oath) | 2010 |
| Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize - U.S. Documentary (The Oath) | 2010 |
| News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form (POV) | 2007 |
| Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature (My Country, My Country) | 2007 |
| Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (My Country, My Country) | 2006 |
| News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form (POV) | 2004 |
| Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award (Flag Wars) | 2004 |
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