Morgan Spurlock, the Oscar-nominated director of 'Super Size Me,' has died at 53.
Spurlock's representative announced the news on Friday. “It was a sad day as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan,” said Craig Spurlock, who worked with him on several projects. “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.”
Born in Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1970, Spurlock began his entertainment career in theater, working as a production assistant on Broadway and earning an award for his play, Spurlock launched an experiment in which he ate three meals a day from the fast-food franchise for 30 days while his film crew documented its effects on his body., was a breakout hit at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, and it later earned Spurlock an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
"From the outset," he wrote, "he establishes that his true subject isn't McDonald's but addiction — the vast, ruthlessly advertised national religion that fast food has become.", which chronicled individuals as they took on an unfamiliar lifestyle — for example, a Christian man living with a Muslim family — for a month.
The filmmaker also revealed his struggles with alcohol, saying he drank"consistently" since the age of 13, adding,"I haven’t been sober for more than a week in 30 years." Spurlock, about rodent extermination in large urban areas, is survived by his sons, Laken and Kallen; his parents Phyllis and Ben; his brothers Craig and Barry; and his former spouses, Alexandra Jamieson and Sara Bernstein, the mothers of his children.
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