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Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him.
65th Directors Guild of America Awards; Date: February 2, 2013 () Location: Hollywood and Highland Center, Los Angeles, California: Country: United States: Presented by: Directors Guild of America: Hosted by: Kelsey Grammer: Highlights; Best Director Feature Film: Argo – Ben Affleck: Best Director Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man ...
He produced a number of feature documentaries, including Man on Wire and Searching for Sugar Man, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. [1] [2] He went to school with Louis Theroux and he produced the documentary My Scientology Movie written by Theroux. Chinn's cousin, Jonathan Chinn, is a television producer. [3]
Musician and documentary subject Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, known professionally as Rodriguez, died on Tuesday. He was 81.The musician's official website shared the news, writing, "It is with great ...
Singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez had toiled in obscurity until the Oscar-winning 2012 documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man' brought him acclaim.
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Malik Bendjelloul, the acclaimed Swedish film director behind the Oscar-winning music documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" has died. He was 36. Police spokeswoman Pia Glenvik ...
Prior to working for SVT, he also worked for an independent production company, Barracuda Film & TV. [7] [12] Subsequently, he left the job to direct documentaries on musicians including Elton John, Rod Stewart, Björk and Kraftwerk. [10] Bendjelloul's documentary Searching for Sugar Man won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The nominees for the 48th Guldbagge Awards were announced on January 3, 2013, in Stockholm, by the Swedish Film Institute. [1] Films with the most nominations were Call Girl with eleven, followed by The Last Sentence and Searching for Sugar Man with six. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 21, 2013. [1]