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==Accolades== {{colbegin}} *''[[Gates of Heaven]]'' (1978) was long featured on Roger Ebert's list of the ten greatest films ever made.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=November 9, 1997 |title=Gates of Heaven (1978) |url=https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19971109/REVIEWS08/401010320/1023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051226155137/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19971109%2FREVIEWS08%2F401010320%2F1023 |archive-date=December 26, 2005 |website=RogerEbert.com}}</ref> *Golden Horse for Best Foreign Film at the Taiwan International Film Festival for ''The Thin Blue Line'' (1988) *[[New York Film Critics Circle]] and the [[National Society of Film Critics]] Best Documentary for ''The Thin Blue Line'' (1988) *Washington Post Best Film of the Year for ''The Thin Blue Line'' (1988) *[[Edgar Award]] for Best Motion Picture, from the [[Mystery Writers of America]], for ''The Thin Blue Line'' (1989) *[[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (1989) *[[MacArthur Fellowship]] (1989) *[[Emmy]] for Best Commercial for [[PBS]] commercial "[http://www.errolmorris.com/commercials/pbs/pbs_photobooth.html Photobooth]" (2001) *In December 2001, the United States' [[National Film Preservation Foundation]] announced that Morris's ''The Thin Blue Line'' would be one of the 25 films selected that year for preservation in the [[National Film Registry]] at the [[Library of Congress]], bringing the total at the time to 325. *2002 International Documentary Association list of the 20 all-time best documentaries: ''[[The Thin Blue Line (1988 film)|The Thin Blue Line]]'' (#2), ''[[Fast, Cheap & Out of Control]]'' (#14)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.cwu.edu/media/intnationaldoc20.htm|title=International Documentary Association Top Twenty Documentaries of All-Time|access-date=2 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213002531/http://www.lib.cwu.edu/media/intnationaldoc20.htm|archive-date=13 February 2008}}</ref> *Best Documentary of the Year awards for ''The Fog of War'' (2003): the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics, and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics. *In 2003, ''[[The Guardian]]'' put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best active directors.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/page/0,11456,1082823,00.html|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|title=40 Best Directors|access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref> *[[Academy Award for Documentary Feature]] ''[[The Fog of War]]'' (2004) *Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (2007)<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=[[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]|access-date=June 3, 2011}}</ref> *Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear at the 2008 [[Berlin International Film Festival]] for ''[[Standard Operating Procedure (film)|Standard Operating Procedure]]'' *Columbia Journalism Award (2013) *In 2019, ''[[The Fog of War]]'' was selected by the [[Library of Congress]] for preservation in the [[National Film Registry]] for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref name="Chow">{{cite magazine |last=Chow |first=Andrew R. |date=December 11, 2019 |title=See the 25 New Additions to the National Film Registry, From Purple Rain to Clerks |url= https://time.com/5747503/national-film-registry-2019-additions/ |magazine=Time |location=New York, NY |access-date=December 11, 2019}}</ref> {{colend}} ===Honorary degrees=== *[[Middlebury College]], Hon. D.F.A. (2010) *[[Brandeis University]], Hon. D.H.L. (2011) *[[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], Hon. D.H.L. (2013)
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