FILM DIRECTOR

Laura Poitras

1964 - Today

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Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films.Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 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 Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laura Poitras has received more than 1,447,006 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Laura Poitras is the 1,221st most popular film director (up from 1,310th in 2019), the 8,087th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,253rd in 2019) and the 306th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Laura Poitras by language

Over the past year Laura Poitras has had the most page views in the with 96,273 views, followed by German (15,856), and French (13,636). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Polish (92.04%), Basque (72.67%), and Egyptian Arabic (37.42%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Laura Poitras ranks 1,221 out of 2,041. Before her are José Padilha, Adam McKay, Arne Sucksdorff, Tom McCarthy, Lee Unkrich, and Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. After her are David Koepp, Priit Pärn, Sidney Franklin, Gregory Ratoff, Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, and Doug Liman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Laura Poitras ranks 298. Before her are Guru Josh, Arkady Volozh, Carmel Busuttil, Iliana Iotova, Linus Roache, and Robin Givens. After her are Aleksei Serebryakov, Rose Christiane Raponda, Ferdinand von Schirach, Agnès Jaoui, Muharrem İnce, and Andrea Montermini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Laura Poitras ranks 8,087 out of 20,380. Before her are Jeffrey Eugenides (1960), John Torrey (1796), Peggy Wood (1892), Sarah Yorke Jackson (1803), Grace Park (1974), and Story Musgrave (1935). After her are David Koepp (1963), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), Marge Champion (1919), Jimmy Hart (1943), Alphonso Taft (1810), and Tracy McGrady (1979).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Laura Poitras ranks 306. Before her are George Abbott (1887), Stan Brakhage (1933), Walter Murch (1943), Adam McKay (1968), Tom McCarthy (1966), and Lee Unkrich (1967). After her are David Koepp (1963), Sidney Franklin (1893), Doug Liman (1965), David Ayer (1968), Tony Gilroy (1956), and Sam Simon (1955).

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Filmography

Citizenfour
Director
In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
Oct 10o 20147.759 / 10
Risk
Director
Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.
May 5o 20176.602 / 10
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Director
The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
Nov 23o 20227.49 / 10