Errol Morris
Documentary filmmaker: The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War; author.
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- Errol Morris is an American documentary filmmaker, born in 1948.
- His film The Thin Blue Line (1988) ranks among the most acclaimed documentaries.
- The Fog of War, about Robert McNamara, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2003.
- He invented the Interrotron, which lets a subject look at the interviewer and the camera at once.
- He has also written books, including Believing Is Seeing.
Key facts
- Born
- 5 February 1948, Hewlett, New York1
- Films
- Gates of Heaven (1981), Vernon, Florida (1981), The Thin Blue Line (1988), Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, The Fog of War (2003), The Unknown Known (2013), American Dharma (2018), The Pigeon Tunnel (2023)1
- Academy Award
- Best Documentary Feature, The Fog of War1
- Books
- Believing Is Seeing (2011); A Wilderness of Error (2012)1
- Invented
- The Interrotron1
- Education
- BA in history, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1969)1
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