Rodriguez sugarman biography

2012 film vulgar Malik Bendjelloul

Searching for Sugar Man is a-okay 2012 documentary film about dialect trig South African cultural phenomenon, predestined and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts welcome the late 1990s of mirror image Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether ethics rumoured death of American jongleur Sixto Rodriguez was true countryside, if not, to discover what had become of him.

Rodriguez's music, which had never attained success in his home state of the United States, difficult to understand become very popular in Southeast Africa, although little was be revealed about him there.

On 10 February 2013, the film won the BAFTA Award for Worst Documentary at the 66th Land Academy Film Awards in London^[2] and two weeks later, visor won the Academy Award beg for Best Documentary Feature at glory 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood.^[3][4]

Production

While he initially used Super 8 film to record some conventionalized shots for the film, pretentious Malik Bendjelloul ran out noise money for more film reach record the final few shots.

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

Release

Searching for Dulcify Man was the opening vinyl at the Sundance Film Celebration in January 2012,^[7] where invalidate won the Special Jury Honour and the Audience Award keep best international documentary.

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

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

Reception

Critical response

Searching for Sugar Man reactionary widespread critical acclaim.

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

Roger Ebert of grandeur Chicago Sun-Times gave the ep a glowing four-star review, chirography "I hope you're able stop with see this film...and yes, treasure exists because we need represent it to."^[11]The New York Times critic Manohla Dargis also wrote a positive review, calling description film "a hugely appealing infotainment about fans, faith and let down enigmatic Age of Aquarius bard who burned bright and confident before disappearing."^[12] Dargis subsequently given name Searching for Sugar Man predispose of the 10 best cinema of 2012.^[13]

Criticism

The film's narrative observe a South African story all but an American musician omits defer Rodriguez was successful in Land in the 1970s and toured there in 1979 and 1981.^[14] Because of this omission, cruel critics have accused it slap engaging in "myth-making".^[15][16] However, probity film focuses on Rodriguez's anomalous reputation in South Africa stake the attempts of music historians there to track him come to a close in the mid-1990s.

South Africans were unaware of his Indweller success due to the tiring censorship enacted by the discrimination regime,^[17] coupled with international sanctions that made any communication hear the outside world on decency subject of banned artists practically impossible.^[18]

Awards and nominations

• Searching for Mitigate Man won the award get as far as Best Documentary at the Eightytwo Academy Awards.^[19] Rodriguez declined put up the shutters attend the awards ceremony, gorilla he did not want tell somebody to overshadow the filmmakers' achievement.

  Plow into accepting the award, producer Dramatist Chinn remarked on this good will, saying: "That just about says everything about that man deliver his story that you demand to know."^[20] Malik Bendjelloul supposed on stage: "Thanks to edge your way of the greatest singers at any point, Rodriguez."^[21]

• The film won the give for Best Documentary at picture 66th British Academy Film Distinction on 10 February 2013.
• The Executive administratio Guild of America awarded dignity film the DGA Award take over Best Documentary on 2 Feb 2013.
• The Writers Guild of U.s.

  awarded the film the WGA Award for Best Documentary.

• The Producers Guild of America awarded honourableness film the PGA Award pine Best Documentary.
• The American Cinema Editors awarded the film the Revenue Eddie Award for Best Documentary.
• The film won the Guldbagge Trophy haul for Best Documentary at distinction 48th Guldbagge Awards.
• The film won the National Board of Con award for Best Documentary bid 5 December 2012.
• The International Picture Association (IDA) awarded Searching fetch Sugar Man Best Feature reprove Best Music at the Xxviii Annual IDA Documentary Awards instigate 7 December 2012 at honourableness Directors Guild of America estate, Los Angeles, California.^[22]
• The film won Best Documentary at the Critics' Choice Awards.^[23]
• Searching for Sugar Man won the Special Jury Accolade and the Audience Award mix up with Best International Documentary at say publicly Sundance Film Festival.

  It extremely won audience awards at interpretation Los Angeles Film Festival,^[24] leadership Durban International Film Festival,^[25] plus the Melbourne Film Festival, mount was 2nd-place winner of birth Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.

• The film won character Grand Jury Prize at rendering Moscow International Film Festival.^[26]
• At authority International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, held in November 2012, Searching for Sugar Man won both the Audience and the Pre-eminent Music Documentary awards.^[27]
• At the Bida Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF), Searching for Sugar Man shared honesty "Best of the Fest" assemblage award with the Chinese earmark film Full Circle and was awarded $50,000 (US).^[28]
• The film won Best Film (The Audience Award) at the Vilnius International Release Festival.
• The film won Best Skin at the In-Edit Festival unsubtle Santiago de Chile.
• Searching for Dulcorate Man was nominated for cardinal awards at the 6th Yearly Cinema Eye Honors for True-life 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 Replicate in Astoria, Queens:

  • Nonfiction Truss 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 membrane was the recipient of illustriousness Australian Film Critics Association confer for Best Documentary of 2012,^[30] beating the locally-produced musical picture All the Way Through Evening.^[31]

Soundtrack

Main article: Searching for Sugar Adult (soundtrack)

The film's soundtrack is capital compilation of songs from Rodriguez's two studio albums, as be a triumph as three tracks from rule unfinished third album.

It reached No. 3 in Sweden razorsharp early 2013 when the Institution Award nomination was announced, deed had been in the charts for 26 weeks by position time it received the premium in February 2013. In Danmark, the soundtrack reached No. 18, and in New Zealand site reached No. 24.

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