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Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary filmmaker, actor, and author. He is best known for his work on globalization and capitalism.

Moore won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine, which examined the causes of the Columbine High School massacre of April 20, 1999, and the overall gun culture of the United States. He also directed and produced Fahrenheit 9/11, a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush and the War on Terror, which earned $119,194,771 to become the highest-grossing documentary at the American box office of all time. The film also won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes film festival. His documentary Sicko, which examines health care in the United States, is one of the top ten highest-grossing documentaries as of 2020. 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, a satirical news-magazine television series, and The Awful Truth, a satirical show. In 2018 he released his latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9, a documentary about the 2016 United States presidential election and the subsequent presidency of Donald Trump.

Moore's written and cinematic works criticize topics such as globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Donald Trump, the Iraq War, the American health care system and capitalism overall. In 2005, Time named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people. Wikipedia  

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Michael Moore Quotes

“The stories of the pharmaceutical companies and the health insurance companies is told. My film acts as a balance. I exist to provide balance, and I tell you, it isn't much balance. They're on every day, all day. My film is two hours. If for two hours during this entire year, people are exposed to the other side of the story, isn't that ok? It's amazing how they go after me. You asked me back there, 'You're biased. You have only one side.' Well, yeah, I have a bias. I have a bias on behalf of the little guy who doesn't have a say. I'm lucky enough to be able to have this bully pulpit, to be able to say the things I say, on behalf of the people who don't have a voice. The pharmaceutical companies and corporate America, they've got their voice. They own the networks and they can say whatever they want, all the time, and they do. So can we just have two hours for this side to have their say? I hope so, I think so. That's what I'm trying to do.”

Michael Moore

Press conference in New York, as quoted in CommingSoon (June 2007) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=21257
2007

People , Health , Hope , Guy

“Guns don't kill people – Americans kill people.”

Michael Moore

Michael Moore on The Ed Show, MSNBC, March 22, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVORszwdNA
2012

People

“For once we agreed.”

Michael Moore

Michael Moore after Bush is shown saying "You can't get fooled again."
2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

“I think that what's disgusting is that, because the Democrats haven't done their job being a loyal opposition, the French have become the new Democrats! What is that? How disgusting is that? The French have become the Democratic Party!”

Michael Moore book Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

Stupid White Men, 2001

Thinking

“I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump and they don't necessarily like him that much, and they don't necessarily agree with him. They're not racist or rednecks, they're actually pretty decent people…”

Michael Moore

Michael Moore In Trumpland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYZqnc-zY5o, film's premiere (October 18, 2016), “Supporters see Trump as ‘human Molotov cocktail’: Michael Moore https://torontosun.com/2016/10/25/supporters-see-trump-as-human-molotov-cocktail-michael-moore/wcm/80ac8ac8-6c3d-4b29-bcae-498b25f4f408,” Toronto Sun, (Oct. 25, 2016)
2016

People

“Stop this war! Shame on you Hobbits! Shame on you! This is a fictitious war! This Lord was not elected by the popular”

Michael Moore

a computer-generated Oliphaunt steps on Moore, crushing him
In a humorous sendup of Moore's previous acceptance speech for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Oscars. Moore himself delivered the lines in the opening act of the 2004 Oscars, while standing in front of a greenscreen which had the Battle of the Pelennor Fields scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King playing on it; a battle which was, itself, literally fictitious. (23 March 2004)
2004

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