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Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American documentary film director, considered perhaps one of the greatest documentarians currently living today. He is the inventor and sole documentarian using, the interrotron, a device where the interviewer and subject look into a camera, upon which is projected an image of the other's face. Consequently, his interviews achieve an intimacy that no other film makers have been able to replicate. The themes of his films frequently include the self-deception in individuals, obsession, and death. He has often retold his version of the story of the expulsion from paradise, where God realized the cruelty in casting man out into the world, and so he gave man self-deception, the ability to lie to oneself. Morris's chief work is in getting beneath 'the lies we tell ourselves'.Morris gained fame after the release of The Thin Blue Line, a film arguing that a man convicted of murder in Dallas County, Texas had been convicted wrongfully; the film was submitted as evidence to secure the retrial leading to the man's eventual release. Before making that film, Morris spent some years as a private investigator.
He won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2004 for The Fog of War, a life and times of Vietnam-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.
In December 2001, the United States' National Film Preservation Foundation announced that Morris' The Thin Blue Line would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress, bringing the total at the time to 325.
In 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom, Morris directed a series of television ads for Apple ComputerApple Computer, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company based in Cupertino, California, whose main business is computer technologies. Best known for its range of Macintosh computers and, more recently, its iPod personal audio ( MP3 and otherwise) player and iTun as part of a "Switch" campaign. In July 2004, Morris agreed to direct a series of ads for the liberal advocacy group MoveOnorg is a liberal political group based in the United States that organizes and informs an online community estimated at more than two million people. The group aims to promote grassroots advocacy by its members through various political activities includi PACPAC or Pac may refer to several articles: Pan Africanist Congress, a political party in South Africa. Perceptual Audio Coding, an audio compression algorithm. Political action committee in the United States. Perturbed Angular Correlation, a particular typ.
1 Films by Errol Morris
- Gates of Heaven
- The Thin Blue LineThe Thin Blue Line is a 1988 documentary film concerning the murder of a Texas police officer who had stopped a car for a routine traffic citation. The police are presented with two suspects, one a local underaged boy with a criminal record ( David Ray Ha
- Vernon, Florida
- A Brief History of Time
- Fast, Cheap and Out of ControlFast, Cheap and Out of Control is a 1997 "non-fiction" film by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. It profiles four subjects with extraordinary careers: a lion trainer, a topiary sculptor, a mole rat specialist, and a robot scientist. The film's musical s
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- The Fog of War
Morris also had a television show, First Person , with shorter weekly documentary films.
