Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me Documentarian, Dead at 53

Scoop Harrison
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Morgan Spurlock, the Academy Award-nominated documentarian, has died at the age of 53 due to complications from cancer.

Spurlock is perhaps best known for his 2004 film Super Size Me in which he consumed only McDonald’s food for a period of 30 days. The documentary was nominated for an Oscar and won Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. It also grossed more than $20 million at the box office, making it one of the most commercially successful documentaries of all time.

Spurlock initially began his career as a playwright after attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Prior to helming Super Size Me in 2004, he created the dare show I Bet You Will, which initially began as a webseries and was then picked up by MTV.

The success of Super Size Me led Spurlock to become of the Hollywood’s most in-demand documentarians. In the years that followed, he helmed a 20th anniversary special for The Simpsons, directed a One Direction documentary, and worked alongside Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, and Eugene Jarecki on Freakonomics: The Movie. He also hosted two of his own television series: FX’s 30 Days and CNN’s Morgan Spurlock Inside Man.

Spurlock’s other feature-length documentaries included Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, in which he attempted to find the former al-Qaeda leader; POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, a documentary about product placement which he financed through product placement; and Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, a film about San Diego Comic-Con.

In 2017, Spurlock’s career was largely derailed when he admitted to a history of sexual misconduct.

Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me Documentarian, Dead at 53
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