Errol Morris

Errol Morris was born in February 5, 1948 in Hewlett, New York. When he was two years old his father died from a heart attack. When he was in 10th grade he started playing the cello since his mother was a music teacher. Errol spend a summer in France studying music. He passed by many colleges but didn't like anything he enrolled in. He met Tom Luddy at Pacific Film Archive, and his documentary career took of from there. Tom was the director of Pacific Film Archive. Errol first documentary was Gates of Heaven filmed in 1978. Which is a documentary about pet cementery business. Errol was unknown when he did this documentary but it would help him become more popular. He later produced and directed Vernon, Florida. Vernon, Florida is about the town of Vernon and it's resident that struggled to collect insurance money. One of his very famous documentary was The Thin Blue Line. This doc is about a man, Randall Dale Adams, who was convicted and sentenced to die for a murder he did not commit in the 1980. He's case was reviewed and he was found not guilty about a year after the documentary was released. This documentary won Best Documentary awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review, and the National Society of Film Critics. Morris won the International Documentary Association Award, an Edgar Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant, but the documentary was rated "nonfiction" instead of  a documentary. Do to this, the filmed wasn't able to be considered for Academy Award. The other popular documentary he made is called The Fog of War. This film is about the life of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. This filmed won Academy Award for the Best Documentary Feature and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. The filmed feature the life of Robert S. McNamara from his birth during the First World War to him managing the American Vietnam War, as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Morris has many more documentaries and films; The Dark Wind, A brief History of Time, Fast, cheap, and out of control, Mr. Death, First Person, Standard Operating Procedure, and the filmed he made in 2010 called Tabloid. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors and he is still going strong in his documentary career.