Michael Moore is the Academy Award - winning director of the landmark film, Bowling for Columbine (2002), awarded the 55th Anniversary Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival as well as the César Award for Best Foreign Film. Bowling for Columbine is the highest grossing narrative documentary of all time, and is credited with opening the door to the new wave of popularly successful non-fiction films.

Moore also directed the groundbreaking film, Roger AND Me (1989), about the devastating effects of GM’s downsizing on Flint, Michigan, which appeared on more than 100 critics "Ten Best" Films of the year lists and won numerous Best Documentary awards at film festivals across the us. His other films are the documentary The Big One (1998) and the feature Canadian Bacon (1995), which was an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard).

In addition to his filmmaking success, Michael is one of America’s most widely read non-fiction authors whose last two best-sellers have combined to sell nearly 7 million copies. Dude, Where’s My Country (2003) spent 6 weeks at #1 in the U.S. and won the German Book of the Year Award, while Stupid White Men (2001) was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year, going to #1 in numerous countries and winning the British Book of the Year Award. He also found time to write two other bestsellers, Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, and Adventures in a TV Nation, (co-written with Kathleen Glynn).

In television, Moore won the Emmy Award for his television series TV Nation and produced two Emmy-nominated seasons of The Awful Truth, called the smartest and funniest show on TV. by the LA Times. He has also directed music videos for R.E.M., Rage Against the Machine, and System of a Down.

Moore was born in 1954 in Flint, Michigan where he was also raised. At 14 he attended Catholic seminary where he studied to be a priest, at 15 he became an Eagle Scout, and at the age of 18 won a race for public office, becoming one of the youngest elected officials in the United States. Getting out of politics at age 22 Moore turned to journalism, founding The Flint Voice which quickly became one of the nation’s most respected alternative newspapers.

He now lives with his wife and his daughter in New York City and Michigan. His latest film Fahrenheit 9/11 is scheduled for release in the summer of 2004.