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This page is about the American author and director. For others of the same name, see Michael Moore (disambiguation).

Michael Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American documentary film director and author known for his satirical advocacy of social democrat views. His work has been branded "Chomsky for children" by the American magazine The New Republic.

Directing

Moore first became famous for his film Roger & Me, a documentary about what happened to his hometown Flint, Michigan, near Detroit, after General Motors closed its factories and opened new ones in Mexico, where the workers were paid much less.

In 1995, Moore released a satirical film, Canadian Bacon, which featured a US politician (played by Alan Alda) engineering a war with Canada in order to boost his popularity.

In 1999 Moore won the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in Arts and Entertainment, for being the executive producer and host of The Awful Truth, where he was also described as "muckraker, author and documentary filmmaker."

Moore's 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine, probes the culture of guns and violence in the United States. Bowling for Columbine got special notice at the Cannes Film Festival and won France's Cesar Award as the Best Foreign Film. It also won the 2003 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. There has been strong dispute about the veracity of information presented in the movie. The presentation of facts is also disputed (see links in article Bowling for Columbine).

When Moore accepted the Oscar, he created a stir when he took the opportunity to loudly denounce US President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq which was met with mixed reaction by the audience.

He has also directed two television series, TV Nation and The Awful Truth, both satires.

Moore's latest movie Fahrenheit 911 examines America in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, particularly the record of the Bush administration and alleged links between the families of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. It has been selected to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2004 but, since the Walt Disney Company prevented distributor Miramax from showing it, allegedly because of Moore's criticism of the Bush administration, rival film distribution companies such as Sony Pictures Classics has stated they would be open to taking the film and Lions Gate Films, who also successfully distributed the film Dogma after Disney refused to carry it stated that they would be eager to take it .

Writings

Moore has authored the three bestselling books Downsize This! (about politics and corporate crime in the United States), Stupid White Men, and Dude, Where's My Country? (both critiques of American domestic and foreign policy).

Moore was previously a columnist for and briefly the editor of Mother Jones magazine and an employee of Ralph Nader. He left Nader's employment on bad terms, but they remained friends, with Moore vociferously supporting Nader's campaign for the US presidency in 2000. On January 14, 2004, Moore declared his support, on his website, for the candidacy of Democrat Wesley Clark in the 2004 presidential election (Clark has since withdrawn from the race, endorsing John Kerry). Moore recently drew attention after he claimed publicly that George W. Bush was AWOL during his service in the National Guard (see George W. Bush).

Critics of Moore contend that Moore's films are not "real" documentaties that his books have factual errors. Moore contends that these are not critics, but "nutcases" and "lunatics" who disagree with him politically, noting the fact that in all four of his books there has not been a single lawsuit against him.

The homepage of 'Michael Moore' vies for first place with the biography of George W. Bush in the Googlebombing exercise that uses the query "miserable failure".

His published Work

List of books

List of films

List of TV series

Sources that challenge Michael Moore's statements

Michael Moore's official response to critics

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