Errol Morris, born in 1948, is an American director and documentary filmmaker, known for his investigative style and for inventing the Interrotron, a device that allows subjects to look directly into the camera while maintaining eye contact with the interviewer. His career took off with films such as *Gates of Heaven* (1978), but it was with *The Thin Blue Line* (1988) that he achieved international fame. The documentary, which investigates a miscarriage of justice, helped exonerate a man wrongfully sentenced to death, demonstrating the powerful social impact of his filmmaking. In 2004, he won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for *The Fog of War*, an intense interview with the former U.S. Secretary of Defense. His other award-winning works include *Standard Operating Procedure* (2008), about the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, which earned him the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. His work, often characterized by stylized reenactments and the music of Philip Glass, explores the nature of truth and memory.