Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, whose first characteristic movie was the Oscar-nominated Tremendous Measurement Me that shifted public perceptions of junk meals, particularly the McDonald’s chain, died Thursday in upstate New York from issues of most cancers. He was 53.
“It was a tragic day, as we mentioned goodbye to my brother Morgan,” his brother Craig Spurlock mentioned in a household assertion. “Morgan gave a lot by means of his artwork, concepts and generosity. As we speak the world has misplaced a real inventive genius and a particular man. I’m so proud to have labored along with him.”
The household mentioned Spurlock handed away peacefully surrounded by household and pals.
Spurlock, a local West Virginian, graduated from NYU’s Tisch College of the Arts to pursue his dream of creating motion pictures. After working primarily in TV, he launched Tremendous Measurement Me in 2004, which featured Spurlock consuming solely McDonald’s for 30 days. Quickly after he shot his movie, the fast-food chain dropped its super-sized portion in an try to deal with more healthy choices.
The multi-hyphenate then adopted with titles together with The place Within the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, Comedian-Con IV: A Quest For Hope, The Biggest Film Ever Offered and One Course: This Is Us, in addition to CNN present Inside Man and the 13-years-later sequel Tremendous Measurement Me 2: Holy Hen!, which ruffled the feathers of the highly effective rooster business in 2019.
By his manufacturing firm Warrior Poets, Spurlock discovered further success producing and directing practically 70 documentary movies and tv sequence.
He’s survived by two sons, Laken and Kallen, his mom Phyllis Spurlock, father Ben and Iris, brothers Craig and spouse Carolyn and Barry and spouse Buffy, a number of nieces and nephews, and former spouses Alexandra Jamieson and Sara Bernstein, the moms of his youngsters.
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