Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53

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He famously ate only at McDonald's for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet and his film 'Super Size Me' was nominated for an Academy Award.

Morgan Spurlock in town talking to the Herald's Tenley Woodman about his new movie. Friday, April 04, 2008.Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous work skewered American food and diets and who notably ate only atSpurlock died Thursday in New York from complications of cancer, according to a statement issued Friday by his family.

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. "I wanted to be able to lean into the serious moments. I wanted to be able to breathe in the moments of levity. We want to give you permission to laugh in the places where it's really hard to laugh," he told the AP.

Not all his work dealt with food. Spurlock made documentaries about the boy band One Direction and the geeks and fanboys at Comic-Con. One of his films looked at life behind bars at the Henrico County Jail in Virginia. He confessed that he had been accused of rape while in college and had settled a sexual harassment case with a female assistant. He also admitted to cheating on numerous partners. "I am part of the problem," he wrote.

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