Morgan Spurlock, the documentary filmmaker best known for “Super Size Me,” has died. He was 53. He died Thursday night from complications of cancer, The Post can confirm. “It was a sad day ...

Morgan Spurlock – who rose to fame for directing the documentary Super Size Me – has died at the age of 53 following a private cancer battle. His family confirmed that he died on Thursday, May 23.

In 2017, Spurlock released “Super Size Me 2,” about opening a fast-food restaurant. In 2017, he made “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken,” which detailed him buying a fast-food restaurant.

Super Size Me,” which had a budget of just $65,000, grossed an astonishing $22 million at the box office and scored an Oscar nomination for the Best Documentary in 2004. Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic ...

Filmmaker and comedian Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 documentary “Super Size Me” showed the physical limits of fast-food consumption. After his death, viewers are still wondering how to engage with ...

FILE - Morgan Spurlock poses at the Los Angeles premiere of his film "Super Size Me," Thursday night, April 22, 2004, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file) AP ...

Morgan Spurlock, the director and documentarian behind "Super Size Me," has died at 53. According to Variety and ABC News, Spurlock died from cancer complications. He rose to fame as the subject ...

“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 ...

AP “Super Size Me” is yet one more example of how storytelling — even imperfect storytelling — has the ability to move mountains, at least a little. Mountains like McDonald’s.

In the late documentarian Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 film “Super Size Me,” it’s clear that he’s casting McDonald’s as the villain from the moment a choir of kids begin enthusiastically ...

His last documentary, “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken,” looked at the marketing tactics the fast-food industry used to appear more nutritious. Spurlock’s family confirmed his death to Variety.

For his breakthrough film, Super Size Me, which premiered 20 years ago at the Sundance Film Festival, Spurlock voluntarily ate nothing but McDonald’s food for 30 days in an experiment meant to ...