“CitizenFour” after winning the Gotham Award for best documentary, just hours after winning the New York Film Critics Award, tonight also won an Oscar.Laura Poitras’ film documents her initial meeting in Hong Kong with Snowden, as well as journalist Glenn Greenwald.
It’s an uncommonly intimate view of what became a historic and much debated act: Snowden leaking National Security Agency documents that revealed their previously undisclosed collection of phone and email records, foreign government information, and classified corporate strategies.
Edward Snowden presently lives in Russia, but also applied for asylum in the European Union. On June 14, 2013 the US department of Justice charged Edward Snowdon with two counts of violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property.
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