Michael Moore
Presenter, Film director
1954 –
Who is Michael Moore?
Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic, and political activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time and winner of the Palme d'Or. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also placed in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries, and the former won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth.
Moore's written and cinematic works criticize globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism.
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- Born
- Apr 23, 1954
Flint - Also known as
- Michael Francis Moore
- The Big Man
- Parents
- Spouses
- Kathleen Glynn
(1991/10/19 - )
- Kathleen Glynn
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Irish American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Michigan-Flint
Journalism - Davison High School
( - 1972) - St. John's Elementary School
- University of Michigan-Flint
- Lived in
- Flint
- Davison
- California
- Traverse City
- New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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