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Significance of CITIZENFOUR’s Win
The Atlantic – February 23, 2015
Significance of Citizenfour‘s Win
When Laura Poitras received the Academy Award for best documentary, civil society was pushing back against the deep state.
By Conor Friedersdorf
“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 surveillance that he exposed won the prize for best feature documentary.
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