Oscar-Nominated “Super Size Me” Director Dies At 53

Variety reports:

Morgan Spurlock, a documentary filmmaker who captured his own psychological and physical symptoms from eating McDonald’s every day for a month in the Oscar-nominated 2004 feature “Super Size Me,” died Thursday in upstate New York due to complications of cancer. He was 53.

Spurlock rose to prominence for “Super Size Me,” in which he conducted an experiment involving consuming only food from McDonald’s for a 30-day stretch.

“Super Size Me” captured the zeitgeist when it released in 2004, grossing $22 million at the global box office and sparking a conversation about how the fast food industry encourage poor nutrition among the general public. McDonald’s discontinued its “super-size” option in the time following its release.

Read the full article. Spurlock said he gained 25 pounds during the experiment and later experienced depression and liver dysfunction. Under the experiment’s rules, he could not refuse the “super size” option if it was suggested by the person working the register.

Morgan Spurlock, a documentary filmmaker who made the Oscar-nominated 2004 feature “Super Size Me,” died Thursday in upstate New York due to complications of cancer. He was 53. https://t.co/qTAHqBO7sO pic.twitter.com/bbTcTV3PDM

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