Yeah! The doco Citizenfour has won an Oscar - as it ought to have done. Do go and see it. A movie as gripping as a John La Carre novel - and a wake up call to us all how governments are committed to intrude into our lives.
"Citizenfour, the film chronicling the decision made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to expose wrongdoing to the world by leaking details of the agency's top-secret global surveillance operation to journalists, was awarded the Best Documentary Film award at Sunday night's Academy Award.
"My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world." —Edward Snowden
The award was accepted by the film's director Laura Poitras alongside its producers, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky. Joining them on stage was journalist Glenn Greenwald and Snowden's girlfriend Lindsay Mills, both of whom are featured in the film.
"Thank you to Edward Snowden for his courage and for the many other whistleblowers," Poitras said as she accepted the award.
"The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed don't only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself," she added. "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."
Laura Poitras (second from left) speaks after accepting the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for "Citizenfour" at the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 22, 2015. The others, from left to right, producer Dirk Wilutzky, journalist Glenn Greenwald, Snowden's girlfriend Lindsay Mills, and producer Mathilde Bonnefoy. (Photo: Reuters/Mike Blake)
"Citizenfour, the film chronicling the decision made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to expose wrongdoing to the world by leaking details of the agency's top-secret global surveillance operation to journalists, was awarded the Best Documentary Film award at Sunday night's Academy Award.
"My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world." —Edward Snowden
The award was accepted by the film's director Laura Poitras alongside its producers, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky. Joining them on stage was journalist Glenn Greenwald and Snowden's girlfriend Lindsay Mills, both of whom are featured in the film.
"Thank you to Edward Snowden for his courage and for the many other whistleblowers," Poitras said as she accepted the award.
"The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed don't only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself," she added. "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."
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