About the film
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film, 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 1970s Mexican-American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to learn 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.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Awards on record
- Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
- Guldbagge Award for Best Documentary Feature
- Sundance World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary
- Sundance World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary