A Laura Poitras’ film about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has won Hollywood’s highest accolade by snatching the Oscar for Best Documentary.
“The disclosures of Edward Snowden don’t only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself,” Poitras said during her acceptance speech. “When the most important decisions being made affecting all of us are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control,” she pointed out, thanking Edward Snowden “for his courage, and for the many other whistleblowers.” Poitras added that she is sharing the award with Glenn Greenwald and “other journalists who are exposing truth.” She was joined on stage by editor Mathilde Bonnefoy, producer Dirk Wilutzky and Snowden’s girlfriend, Lindsay Mills.
As the filmmaker and her collaborators walked offstage on Sunday night, Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris couldn’t help quipping: “The subject of ‘CitizenFour,’ Edward Snowden, could not be here tonight for some treason.”
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