The Fog of Errol Morris

“I was convinced I was going to lose,” Errol Morris, the veteran commercial and documentary director—and now Oscar winner—tells Shoptalk.

The @radical.media director has been making films (Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line) for 25 years. But The Fog of War, his film about Robert McNamara, earned him his first nomination—and the Oscar for best documentary. Morris says he was “a deer in the headlights” on stage. His prepared speech flew out the window, and he made some politically charged comments instead.