'Citizenfour' Oscar Is Latest Honor For Snowden Journalists [View all]

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By Afp

Published: 23:32 EST, 22 February 2015 | Updated: 23:32 EST, 22 February 2015

The best documentary Oscar awarded to "Citizenfour" is the latest in a string of accolades for the journalists who brought to light the trove of classified documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The film directed and produced by Laura Poitras reveals how she worked with other reporters to lift the lid on the sweeping surveillance programs of the US National Security Agency and other intelligence services -- revelations which shocked many in America and around the world.

"The most important decisions being made affecting all of us are made in secret. We lose our ability to check the powers that control," Poitras said Sunday as she accepted the award at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with journalist Glenn Greenwald at her side.


Winners for Best Documentary Feature "CitizenFour" Laura Poitras (C) and Dirk Wilutzky (L) give their acceptance speech flanked by journalist Glenn Greenwald at the 87th Oscars February 22, 2015 in Hollywood, California ©Robyn Beck (AFP)

"Thank you to Edward Snowden for his courage and for the many other whistleblowers, and I share this with other journalists who are exposing truth."

Snowden said in a statement released to the American Civil Liberties Union that he hoped people seeing the film would "be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world."

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