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Laura Poitras (;〔 Video interview. Pronunciation confirmed at beginning of video.〕 born )〔 is an Academy Award-winning American documentary film director and producer〔 〕 residing in Berlin. Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ''Citizenfour'', about Edward Snowden,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The 87th Academy Awards )〕 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''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Greenwald, Poitras, Gellman, MacAskill: key in NSA coverage )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/14/guardian-washington-post-pulitzer-nsa-revelations )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/filmmaker-laura-poitras-work-rewarded-with-a-pulitzer-prize )〕 She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. ==Early life== Born in Boston, Massachusetts,〔 Laura Poitras is the middle daughter of Patricia "Pat" and James "Jim" Poitras, who in 2007 donated $20 million to found The Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research at McGovern Institute for Brain Research, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.〔 Her parents keep a home in Massachusetts, but live mostly in Orlando, Florida.〔 Her sisters are Christine Poitras, an ESL teacher; and Jennifer Poitras, a disaster response planner and consultant.〔 Growing up, Laura planned to become a chef, and spent several years as a cook at L'Espalier, a French restaurant located in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. However, after finishing Sudbury Valley School, where there were no grades and no division of students by age, she moved to San Francisco and lost interest in becoming a chef.〔 Instead she studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with experimental filmmakers Ernie Gehr and Janis Crystal Lipzin. In 1992, Poitras moved to New York to pursue filmmaking. In 1996, she graduated from The New School for Public Engagement with a bachelor's degree.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blogs.newschool.edu/news/2013/08/laura-poitras-secret-no-longer/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laura Poitras」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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