'Super Size Me' Documentary Director Morgan Spurlock Dead at 53
The 2004 doc, which ultimately scored an Oscar nom, took aim at the fast food industry.
Morgan Spurlock has died due to complications from cancer.
Per a report from the Associated Press, Spurlock, whose 2004 documentary Super Size Me was nominated for an Oscar, died on Thursday. He was 53.
"It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan," Craig Spurlock said in a statement shared Friday. "Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas, and generosity. The world has lost a true creative genius and a special man. I am so proud to have worked together with him."
Super Size Me, written and directed by Spurlock, followed the filmmaker on a 30-day journey of eating McDonald’s for every meal. The film was inescapable in the mid-2000s, with its impact helping inform a more critical view of the fast food industry at large. While Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski’s Born Into Brothels ultimately won Best Documentary Feature at the 2005 Academy Awards, Spurlock’s film took home a Writers Guild of America award that same year.
