Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Spurlock was the kind of filmmaker who made you feel genuinely uncomfortable about your lunch order — and somehow loved him for it. Super Size Me was a cultural gut-punch: a guy eats nothing but McDonald's for a month and documents his body falling apart in real time, and it ended up earning an Oscar nomination and sparking a nationwide conversation about fast food that the industry really didn't want to have. What I admired most about Spurlock was that he never hid himself behind the camera — he was always the willing guinea pig, using his own body and life as the story's raw material. He had a West Virginia everyman quality that made even his most provocative stunts feel accessible rather than preachy. Losing him in May 2024 at just 53 was a real blow to documentary filmmaking. The genre is quieter without him.

Name (English)

Morgan Spurlock

Name (Japanese)

モーガン・スパーロック

Reading

もーがん・すぱーろっく

Born

November 7, 1970 – May 23, 2024

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

Origin

Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States

Height

2 cm

Occupation

screenwriter / film director / journalist / documentarian / writer

High school

Woodrow Wilson High School

University

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Writers Guild of America Award

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://morganspurlock.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/morganspurlocknyc/
• Xhttps://x.com/morganspurlock
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF

Tags

• West Virginia
• screenwriter
• film director
• journalist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.