Searching for Sugar Man

Searching for Sugar Man
US theatrical release poster
Directed byMalik Bendjelloul
Written byMalik Bendjelloul
Produced by
StarringSixto Rodriguez
CinematographyCamilla Skagerström
Edited byMalik Bendjelloul
Music byRodriguez
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • NonStop Entertainment
    (Sweden)
  • StudioCanal
    (United Kingdom)
Release dates
  • 19 January 2012 (2012-01-19) (Sundance)
  • 26 July 2012 (2012-07-26) (United Kingdom)
  • 24 August 2012 (2012-08-24) (Sweden)
  • 22 February 2013 (2013-02-22) (Finland)
Running time
86 minutes
Countries
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • Finland
LanguageEnglish
Box office$9.1 million[1]

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]

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