NEW YORK: Morgan Spurlock, the acclaimed filmmaker behind the hit 2004 documentary Super Size Me, has died aged 53 of complications from cancer, his family announced on Friday (May 24).
Morgan Spurlock attends the Turner Upfront 2017 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on May 17, 2017 in New York City. NEW YORK: Morgan Spurlock, the acclaimed filmmaker behind the hit 2004 documentary Super Size Me, has died aged 53 of complications from cancer, his family announced on Friday .
Super Size Me, which was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary feature, followed Spurlock as he subsisted on a diet of only McDonald's fast food for a month. But his legacy was tainted when he confessed to sexual misdeeds at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017. He said that with his confession he hoped"to empower the change within myself. We should all find the courage to admit we're at fault."During the one month it took to shoot Super Size Me - which cost just US$65,000 to make - Spurlock ate only at McDonald's.
Just weeks after the film debuted at the Sundance film festival in 2004, McDonald's announced it would remove its"super-size" options from the menu. In 2008's Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? he set out to capture the Al-Qaeda leader, at the time the world's most wanted man.
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