But he also made a satirical documentary about the search for Osama bin Laden, directed a film about a One Direction concert and even made a film about Homer Simpson and baseball.
For several years, Spurlock hosted a popular CNN original series, ‘Morgan Spurlock Inside Man’.
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Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the future filmmaker grew up in Beckley, where he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School. He went on to graduate from New York University in 1993.
Spurlock was the founder of the New York-based production studio Warrior Poets and his first film, ‘Super Size Me’, premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it earned him the honour of Best Director.
The film won the inaugural Writers Guild of America Best Documentary Screenplay Award, in addition to earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
Spurlock’s willingness in that documentary to experiment with the effects of eating fast food for breakfast, lunch and dinner fascinated audiences. He gained 11 kilos (25 pounds) and documented the negative effects it had on his body.
