Errol Mark Morris is an American

United States

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 director. In 2003, The Guardian

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put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. Also in 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award

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 for Best Documentary Feature

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Morris was born in Hewlett

Hewlett, New York

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, New York

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 on February 5, 1948. When he was two years old, his father died of a heart attack. His mother, a Juilliard graduate, supported Morris and his brother as a music teacher.