Very sorry to hear about Morgan Spurlock’s death to cancer at 53. His “Super Size Me” was Oscar nominated for Best Documentary Feature in 2005 and spawned success at the box-office.
In the early aughts, right after the success of Michael Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine,” there happened to be a boom of documentary directors who tried to rip off Moore’s intrusive, put-yourself-intto-the-story, filmmaking style. Spurlock was one of them, and probably the most famous one because of “Super Size Me.”
I almost forgot about how Spurlock #MeToo’ed himself in 2017, confessing to sexual misdeeds at the height of the movement. In an open letter, he admitted to verbally harassing a female assistant and paying her off. He also said he had been accused of rape in college, though there were no charges or investigations.