Errol Morris

American filmmaker and writer (born 1948)

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    Born 1948
  • Known for
    The Act of Killing
    2012
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Errol Mark Morris is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects, and the invention of the Interrotron. In 2003, his The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His film The Thin Blue Line placed fifth on a Sight & Sound poll of the greatest documentaries ever made. Morris is known for making films about unusual subjects; Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of an animal trainer, a topiary gardener, a robot scientist, and a naked mole-rat specialist.

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  • Edgar Awards
  • MacArthur Fellows Program
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Guggenheim Fellowship
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