Searching for Sugar Man
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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. 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.
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Directed by | Malik Bendjelloul |
Written by | Malik Bendjelloul |
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Starring | Sixto Rodriguez |
Cinematography | Camilla Skagerström |
Edited by | Malik Bendjelloul |
Music by | Rodriguez |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
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Language | English |
Box office | $9.1 million[1] |
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]