Laura Poitras is an Academy Award®, Pulitzer Prize, and Golden Lion-winning filmmaker and journalist. Her 2025 film, Cover-Up, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for BAFTA, DGA, and Emmy Awards. Her previous film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award®. Her film CITIZENFOUR won an Academy Award® for Best Documentary, along with awards from DGA, BAFTA, and the Independent Spirit Awards. Laura received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for her reporting on the National Security Agency’’s global mass surveillance programs. Her film about the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq, My Country, My Country, was nominated for an Academy Award®. In 2006, she was placed on a terrorist watchlist because of her work documenting post-9/11 America. In 2015, she successfully sued the U.S. government to obtain her classified FBI files.