'Super Size Me' Director Morgan Spurlock Dead At 53

Director Morgan Spurlock poses for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival at the Fender Music Lodge on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 in Park City, Utah. via Associated Press NEW YORK — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous work skewered American food and diets and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. I am so proud to have worked together with him.” Spurlock made a splash in 2004 with his groundbreaking film “Super Size Me,” which was nominated for an Academy Award. via Associated Press He returned in 2019 with “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!” — a sober look at an industry that processes 9 billion animals a year in America. They can’t see the forest for the trees.” “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!” was to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 but it was shelved at the height of the #MeToo movement when Spurlock came forward to detail his own history of sexual misconduct.