Searching for Sugar Man
Documentary / Music / Biography
Sweden / UK,
2012, 86 min
Directed by:
Malik BendjelloulScreenplay:
Malik BendjelloulCinematography:
Camilla SkagerströmComposer:
RodriguezVOD (2)
Plots(1)
In the late '60s, a musician was discovered in a Detroit bar by two celebrated producers who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. Despite overwhelming critical acclaim, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumours of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it became a phenomenon. (StudioCanal UK)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 2013 - Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn (Best Documentary Feature)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2013 - Best Documentary Film
British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
- 2012 - Best International Independent Film
European Film Awards
- 2013 - Malik Bendjelloul (Audience Award for Best Film)
Polish Film Awards
- 2014 - Malik Bendjelloul (Best European Film)
Guldbagge Awards
- 2012 - Malik Bendjelloul (Best Documentary)
- 2012 - Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn (Best Film)
- 2012 - Malik Bendjelloul (Best Screenplay)
- 2012 - Malik Bendjelloul (Best Editing)
- 2012 - Malik Bendjelloul, Rodriguez (Best Original Score)
- 2012 - Best Sound Design
Amanda Awards
- 2013 - Malik Bendjelloul (Best Foreign Language Film)
Critics Choice Awards
- 2013 - Best Documentary Feature
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2012 - Malik Bendjelloul (Best Documentary/Non Fiction Film)
Tribeca Film Festival
- 2012 - Malik Bendjelloul (Audience Award (Documentary))
Sundance Film Festival
- 2012 - Malik Bendjelloul (World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit)
- 2012 - Malik Bendjelloul (Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary)
- 2012 - Malik Bendjelloul (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)
- 2012 - Most Popular Documentary