Errol Morris

Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948 in Hewlett, New York) is an American Academy Award winning documentary film director. His documentaries are almost invariably received with widespread critical acclaim, and The Guardian listed him as number seven in their list of the world's 40 best directors. http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/page/0,11456,1082823,00.html.

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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 his career as a film-maker, Morris was briefly a graduate student at Princeton University and later a philosophy Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley. Morris left school shortly before finishing his studies, however, to make Gates of Heaven. Morris also spent some years as a private investigator between making Vernon, Florida and The Thin Blue Line.

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Starting in 2000 Morris also had a television show, First Person, featuring 30-minute-long documentaries. The series ran for seventeen episodes and featured Morris' trademark Interrotron.

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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.

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In 2002, Morris directed a series of television ads for Apple Computer as part of a "Switch" campaign. In July 2004, Morris agreed to direct a series of ads for the liberal advocacy group MoveOn PAC.

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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.

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February 5: February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 329 days remaining (330 in leap years)....

1948: 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)....

Hewlett, New York: Hewlett is a census-designated place located in Nassau County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 7,060....

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