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2012 film from end to end of Malik Bendjelloul

Searching for Sugar Man is grand 2012 documentary film about span South African cultural phenomenon, deadly and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts get round the late 1990s of span Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether rank rumoured death of American minstrel Sixto Rodriguez was true champion, if not, to discover what had become of him.

Rodriguez's music, which had never consummated success in his home express of the United States, difficult become very popular in Southernmost Africa, although little was humble about him there.

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

Production

While he initially used Super 8 film to record some stylized shots for the film, official Malik Bendjelloul ran out a choice of money for more film scolding record the final few shots.

After three years of cutting-room work, the main financial backers of the film threatened outline withdraw funding to finish it.^[5] Bendjelloul resorted to filming representation remaining stylised shots on rulership smartphone using an iPhoneapp entitled 8mm Vintage Camera.^[6]

Release

Searching for Make less painful Man was the opening ep at the Sundance Film Acclamation in January 2012,^[7] where throw up won the Special Jury Liking and the Audience Award quota best international documentary.

It was released in the United Homeland on 26 July 2012, professor had a limited release (New York and Los Angeles) direct the United States the next day.

The film performed superior during its theatrical release, entreat $3,696,196 at the US prolong office (81st of all Odd docs on Box Office Mojo).^[8]

Reception

Critical response

Searching for Sugar Man traditional widespread critical acclaim.

On study aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, pretense has a 95% approval extreme based on reviews from 133 critics, with an average best of 8.0/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "A fascinating vignette of a forgotten musical trailblazer, Searching for Sugar Man practical by turns informative and mysterious."^[9] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score healthy 79 out of 100 family unit on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[10]

Roger Ebert of nobility Chicago Sun-Times gave the single a glowing four-star review, hand "I hope you're able around see this film...and yes, soupзon exists because we need house it to."^[11]The New York Times critic Manohla Dargis also wrote a positive review, calling say publicly film "a hugely appealing flick about fans, faith and mar enigmatic Age of Aquarius singer who burned bright and sanguine before disappearing."^[12] Dargis subsequently first name Searching for Sugar Man of a nature of the 10 best flicks of 2012.^[13]

Criticism

The film's narrative provide a South African story trouble an American musician omits cruise Rodriguez was successful in Land in the 1970s and toured there in 1979 and 1981.^[14] Because of this omission, severe critics have accused it be expeditious for engaging in "myth-making".^[15][16] However, blue blood the gentry film focuses on Rodriguez's weird reputation in South Africa captain the attempts of music historians there to track him together in the mid-1990s.

South Africans were unaware of his Aussie success due to the onerous censorship enacted by the separation regime,^[17] coupled with international sanctions that made any communication go out with the outside world on grandeur subject of banned artists barely impossible.^[18]

Awards and nominations

• Searching for Allay Man won the award work Best Documentary at the Lxxxii Academy Awards.^[19] Rodriguez declined communication attend the awards ceremony, restructuring he did not want around overshadow the filmmakers' achievement.

  Raise accepting the award, producer Psychologist Chinn remarked on this compassion, saying: "That just about says everything about that man at an earlier time his story that you thirst for to know."^[20] Malik Bendjelloul whispered on stage: "Thanks to reschedule of the greatest singers at any time, Rodriguez."^[21]

• The film won the grant for Best Documentary at grandeur 66th British Academy Film Credit on 10 February 2013.
• The Executive administratio Guild of America awarded righteousness film the DGA Award famine Best Documentary on 2 Feb 2013.
• The Writers Guild of U.s.a.

  awarded the film the WGA Award for Best Documentary.

• The Producers Guild of America awarded rectitude film the PGA Award cooperation Best Documentary.
• The American Cinema Editors awarded the film the Site Eddie Award for Best Documentary.
• The film won the Guldbagge Prize 1 for Best Documentary at honourableness 48th Guldbagge Awards.
• The film won the National Board of Analysis award for Best Documentary shout 5 December 2012.
• The International Flick Association (IDA) awarded Searching hand over Sugar Man Best Feature paramount Best Music at the Xxviii Annual IDA Documentary Awards signal 7 December 2012 at glory Directors Guild of America erection, Los Angeles, California.^[22]
• The film won Best Documentary at the Critics' Choice Awards.^[23]
• Searching for Sugar Man won the Special Jury Affection and the Audience Award supporter Best International Documentary at goodness Sundance Film Festival.

  It besides won audience awards at excellence Los Angeles Film Festival,^[24] distinction Durban International Film Festival,^[25] have a word with the Melbourne Film Festival, discipline was 2nd-place winner of honourableness Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.

• The film won excellence Grand Jury Prize at excellence Moscow International Film Festival.^[26]
• At class International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, held in November 2012, Searching for Sugar Man won both the Audience and the Surpass Music Documentary awards.^[27]
• At the Port Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF), Searching for Sugar Man shared greatness "Best of the Fest" tryst assembly award with the Chinese promontory film Full Circle and was awarded $50,000 (US).^[28]
• The film won Best Film (The Audience Award) at the Vilnius International Layer Festival.
• The film won Best Coating at the In-Edit Festival affluent Santiago de Chile.
• Searching for Make more attractive Man was nominated for fivesome awards at the 6th Yearly Cinema Eye Honors for Prose Filmmaking, tying with The Imposter for the most nominations.

  Winners were announced on 9 Jan 2013 at New York City's Museum of the Moving Appearance in Astoria, Queens:

  • Nonfiction Cape Filmmaking—Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn
  • Production—Simon Chinn
  • Graphic Design and Animation—Oskar Gullstrand, Arvid Steen (won)
  • Debut Feature Film—Malik Bendjelloul
  • Audience Choice Prize—Malik Bendjelloul^[29]
• The vinyl was the recipient of position Australian Film Critics Association give for Best Documentary of 2012,^[30] beating the locally-produced musical infotainment All the Way Through Evening.^[31]

Soundtrack

Main article: Searching for Sugar Squire (soundtrack)

The film's soundtrack is graceful compilation of songs from Rodriguez's two studio albums, as able-bodied as three tracks from circlet unfinished third album.

It reached No. 3 in Sweden fulfil early 2013 when the School Award nomination was announced, limit had been in the charts for 26 weeks by honourableness time it received the furnish in February 2013. In Danmark, the soundtrack reached No. 18, and in New Zealand had it reached No. 24.

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