"And the Oscar goes to ... Citizenfour." With those words, filmmaker Laura Poitras took the stage Sunday at the Academy Awards, where her portrait of whistleblower Edward Snowden and the sweeping mass ...

The same Kansas man who filed suit against Edward Snowden and the doc's makers also contacted the Academy, arguing that a prior airing of some of its footage violated three Academy rules By Scott ...

Backstage producer Mathilde Bonnefoy said “We focused on the person Snowden. We tried with our film to show him, to give him a voice. His motives were pure. He’s a young man who decided to end his ...

A cool, steady stream of anxiety, Laura Poitras’ documentary “Citizenfour” draws from the visual language and buggy paranoia of the best-known 1970s political thrillers: “The Conversation,” “The ...

Be afraid. Be very afraid. This in essence is the message of “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’ highly anticipated documentary on Edward Snowden’s decision to expose the National Security Agency’s ravenous ...

The hotel room where most of the Laura Poitras documentary “Citizenfour” takes place is small, decorated only with a bed and some furniture by the Danish modernist Arne Jacobsen (or at least some ...