Biography
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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Awards & recognition
- Edgar Awards · 1989
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- MacArthur Fellows Program
Filmography28 titles
The Look of Silence
The Act of Killing
The Fog of War
The Thin Blue Line
Life Itself
A Brief History of Time
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
P.O.V.
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
The Unknown Known
Standard Operating Procedure
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Vernon, Florida
Gates of Heaven
National Bird
The Pigeon Tunnel
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
American Dharma
Tabloid
Wormwood
Chaos: The Manson Murders
Separated
Enemies of the State
A Wilderness of Error
My Psychedelic Love Story
The Dark Wind
An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell