Awards:
Bowling for Culumbine: won the Anniversary Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and France's César Award as the Best Foreign Film. In the United States, it won the 2002 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. It also enjoyed great commercial and critical success for a film of its type and became, at the time, the highest-grossing mainstream-released documentary.
Fahrenheit 9/11: was awarded the Palme d'Or, the top honor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; it was the first documentary film to win the prize since 1956. Fahrenheit received no Oscar nomination for Best Picture but at the box office, as of 2010 Fahrenheit 9/11 is the highest-grossing documentary of all time, taking in over $200 million worldwide, including United States box office revenue of almost $120 million.
Sicko: The film is currently ranked the fourth highest grossing documentary of all time, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
Controversy surrounding Michael Moore:
Michael Moore has been accused by Peter Schweizer in his book Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy of being a "Corporate Criminal, Environmental Menace, and Racist Union-Buster", making the following claims:
- Moore portraying himself as working class is deceptive, and that he actually grew up in an well-to-do home.
- While Moore criticizes racial disparity in Hollywood, Fahrenheit 9/11's crew was all white.
- While Moore claims to not own any stock, he and his wife's foundation owns stock in many large companies, including Halliburton.
- While praising unions, Moore tried to dissuade his workers from joining them.
