Supersize Me Director Morgan Spurlock, Lifeless At 54
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(CelebrityAccess) — Morgan Spurlock, the documentary filmmaker finest recognized for his Oscar-nominated 2004 movie “Tremendous Measurement Me,” died on Thursday. He was 53.
His brother, Craig Spurlock, advised the New York Instances that the reason for dying was issues of an unspecified most cancers.
A local of West Virginia, Spurlock attended New York College’s Tisch College of the Arts, graduating with a BFA and launched a profitable profession as a playwright, profitable awards for his play, The Phoenix at each the Fringe Pageant and the Route 66 American Playwriting Competitors in 2000.
In 2004, Spurlock launched the documentary “Tremendous Measurement Me” which particulars an experiment during which he eats three meals from the quick meals restaurant McDonalds day-after-day for a month whereas curbing train to match what he claimed was the typical American way of life.
In the course of the course of the documentary experiment, Spurlock claimed to have gained 25 kilos and suffered despair and points together with his liver. Nonetheless, the validity of the experiment chronicled within the documentary has subsequently been referred to as into query attributable to an absence of documentation of the outcomes and different, unrevealed elements that included Spurlock’s alleged alcohol use.
Spurlock’s different documentaries embody The place within the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, which debuted in 2008 and explored America’s Conflict On Terror, and The Best Film Ever Offered, a movie on the perils of product placement.
Spurlock hosted and produced the CNN collection Morgan Spurlock Inside Man, which ran on the information channel for 3 years between 2013 and 2016. Spurlock additionally hosted 30 Days, a tv collection that featured Spurlock or one other particular person immersing themselves in a distinct way of life or expertise for 30 days. Episodes included Spurlock and his fiancée dwelling on minimal wage for 30 days, or a religious Christian dwelling with a Muslim household. The collection ran for 3 seasons on FX earlier than it was canceled in 2008.
In 2017, Spurlock posted a weblog submit during which he admitted to a previous of sexual misconduct that included dishonest on previous romantic companions, and sexual harassment and that he had been accused of sexual assault whereas in school. Following the publication of the weblog submit, Spurlock stepped down from his place at Warrior Poets, the documentary movie firm he launched in 2004.
