'Super Size Me' filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dies at 53

NEW YORK (TND) — Oscar-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, known for eating only McDonald's for a month in "Super Size Me" has died. He was 53.

Spurlock died Thursday from complications of cancer, his family said in a statement Friday.

"It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan," Craig Spurlock said. "Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas and generosity. Today the world has lost a true creative genius and a special man. I am so proud to have worked together with him."

Spurlock made a splash in 2004 with his groundbreaking “Super Size Me,” and 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.

Since he exposed the fast-food and chicken industries, there was an explosion in restaurants stressing freshness, artisanal methods, farm-to-table goodness and ethically sourced ingredients. But nutritionally not much has changed.

“There has been this massive shift and people say to me, ‘So has the food gotten healthier?’ And I say, ‘Well, the marketing sure has,’” he told the AP in 2019.

In 2017 during the MeToo movement, Spurlock confessed on X, formerly Twitter, to a history of sexual misconduct and resigned from his production company, Warrior Poets.

Other documentary films he made throughout his career include "Where In the World Is Osama Bin Laden," "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" and "Morgan Spurlock Inside Man."

He is survived by two sons and ex-wives Alexandra Jamieson and Sara Bernstein.

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Editor's note: The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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