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After a year of missteps and black eyes, the very expensive experiment that is First Look Media has a positive moment in the spotlight: Citizenfour, a film based largely on the crew's Edward Snowden reporting, just nabbed an Oscar.

Joining director (and co-founder of The Intercept) Laura Poitras was not only Snowden confidant Glenn Greenwald (he got to hold the Oscar!), but Snowden's girlfriend Lindsay Mills—last seen with Ed at the opera in Moscow.

The Intercept had a celebratory post ready to go (though neither it nor parent company First Look were responsible for the film's actual production):

The film, which has been hailed as a real-life thriller, chronicles Snowden's effort to securely contact Poitras and Glenn Greenwald in 2013 and meet them in Hong Kong, where Poitras filmed Snowden discussing the thousands of classified NSA documents he was leaking to them, and his motives for doing so. The film takes its title from the pseudonym Snowden used when he contacted Poitras in encrypted emails that were revealed in her documentary.

Snowden himself provided a brief statement to the ACLU:

"When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The result is a brave and brilliant film that deserves the honor and recognition it has received. 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."

It will be a very fun night for the many undercover feds at tonight's Vanity Fair after-party.