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Morgan Spurlock
2005 WV Filmmaker Pinnacle Award
The 2005 WV Filmmaker Pinnacle Award is awarded to Morgan Spurlock because of his great contributions to the film and TV industries.
Morgan Spurlock is an American independent film director and screenwriter, known for the documentary film Super Size Me, in which he demonstrated featured the negative health effects of McDonalds food.
Rejected five times by the USC film school, Spurlock graduated with a BFA in film from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1993.
Spurlock was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and lives in Manhattan. Before making Super Size Me, Spurlock created I Bet You Will for MTV.
SUPER SIZE ME
Super Size Me is a 2004 documentary film, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an independent U.S. filmmaker. It follows a period in which he eats only McDonald's fast food, three times a day, every day, for thirty days ’Äì and stops exercising regularly ’Äì and it documents the physical and psychological effects this has upon him. In addition, Spurlock explores the corporate influence of the fast food industry and how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit.
Spurlock, age 33, was healthy and slim, with a body mass of 185.5 lb (84.1 kg). Spurlock's height is 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m). After thirty days, he gained 24.5 lb (11.1 kg), an increase of 13% of his body mass. He also experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and nearly catastrophic liver damage. It took several months to lose the weight he gained and return to normal.
The driving factor for Spurlock's investigation was the increasing spread of obesity throughout US society, which the Surgeon General has declared "epidemic", and the corresponding lawsuit brought against McDonald's on behalf of two overweight girls, who, it was claimed, became obese as a result of eating too much McDonald's food. Spurlock points out that, although the lawsuit against McDonald's failed, much of the same criticism of the tobacco companies applies to fast food franchises.
The film opened in the U.S. on May 7, 2004, and was very successful for a documentary film, staying in the top ten of the box office for two weeks. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Reference: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
