Searching for Sugar Man

Searching for Sugar Man
Searching for Sugar Man
	US theatrical release poster
Directed by	Malik Bendjelloul
Written by	Malik Bendjelloul
Produced by	Malik Bendjelloul; Simon Chinn;
Starring	Sixto Rodriguez
Cinematography	Camilla Skagerström
Edited by	Malik Bendjelloul
Music by	Rodriguez
Production; companies	Red Box Film; Passion Pictures; Canfield Pictures; Sveriges Television; Yle Co-Production; Hysteria Film;
Distributed by	NonStop Entertainment; (Sweden); StudioCanal; (United Kingdom);
Release dates	19 January 2012 (Sundance); 26 July 2012 (United Kingdom); 24 August 2012 (Sweden); 22 February 2013 (Finland);
Running time	86 minutes
Countries	Sweden; United Kingdom; Finland;
Language	English
Box office	$9.1 million

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. Rodriguez's music, which had never achieved success in his home country of the United States, had become very popular in South Africa, although little was known about him there.

On 10 February 2013, the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary at the 66th British Academy Film Awards in London^[2] and two weeks later, it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood.^[3]^[4]

^ "Searching for Sugar Man". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
^ "Full list of Bafta award winners",The Independent, 10 February 2013: Retrieved 26 February 2013.
^ "The 2013 Oscars Best Documentary Award", Docomentaryhive.com, 25 February 2013.Archived 19 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
^ "The 85th Academy Awards (2013) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS. Retrieved 14 May 2014.

[1] "Searching for Sugar Man". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 14 May 2014.

[2] "Full list of Bafta award winners",The Independent, 10 February 2013: Retrieved 26 February 2013.

[3] "The 2013 Oscars Best Documentary Award", Docomentaryhive.com, 25 February 2013.Archived 19 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 26 February 2013.

[Oscars2013-4] "The 85th Academy Awards (2013) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS. Retrieved 14 May 2014.

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