'Searching For Sugar Man' Director Has Died At 36
Searching for Sugar Man director Malik Bendjelloul has passed away at the age of 36. He won an Oscar in 2013 for Best Documentary.
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WGA Awards Go To 'Argo', 'Zero Dark Thirty'
In the last major pre-Oscars guild awards, the WGA followed the PGA, the DGA, and the SAG (not to mention the HFPA, the BAFTA, and most every other film-related acronym you can think of) in feting Argo, this time for the excellent adapted screenplay by Chris Terrio. Mark Boal's Zero Dark Thirty nabbed the original screenplay award,…
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'Looper', 'The Master', 'Perks Of Being A Wallflower', And More Nominated For Writers Guild Of America Awards
With just days to go until Oscar nominations are announced, the Writers Guild of America has unveiled its list of nominees for their top screenplay awards. As expected, many of these are films that have picked up plenty of accolades already. It'll surprise no one to see that Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, and Lincoln are among the…
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Oscar Documentary Nomination Shortlist Includes 'Searching For Sugar Man, 'The Imposter,' 'The Invisible War'
If the doling out of awards by the New York Film Critics Circle, and the release of the Annie Awards nominations hadn't made it clear, as we've passed into December the movie business award season is officially open. The latest stage in the game is the release of a shortlist of documentaries that will be…
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'60 Minutes' Segment On Sundance Fave 'Searching For Sugar Man' Celebrates Talented Singer Rodriguez
One of the big hits of both Sundance and SXSW this year was the doc Searching For Sugar Man, about the singer Rodriguez, whose records bombed in the US in the '70s even as it became a major cultural force in South Africa. Sony Classics picked up the film after Sundance, but no trailer has been…
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Final Round Of SXSW Films Includes 'Searching For Sugar Man,' 'Safety Not Guaranteed' And 'Nature Calls,' With Patton Oswalt
This year's SXSW Film Festival will open in less than a month, on Friday, March 9, 2012, and run through Saturday, March 17 in Austin, Texas. The opening night film is the world premiere of Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods, and the rest of the film schedule includes pictures such…
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Sundance Awards Given To 'Beasts Of The Southern Wild,' 'The Surrogate,' 'Searching For Sugar Man' And More
The Sundance Film Festival prepared to come to a close for 2012 tonight as the festival held its some of its last screenings and mounted an awards ceremony to celebrate the best films of this year's festival. The biggest jury prizes went to Beasts of the Southern Wild (reviewed here) and Eugene Jarecki's war on…
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'Searching For Sugar Man' - A Documentary That Feels Like A Musical 'Harry Potter' Story [Sundance 2012]
There are no magic tricks in Searching for Sugar Man. No one has a wand and the stakes are certainly not life or death. It just so happens that the fascinating real life story of Rodriguez, a rock singer from the early 1970s, shares some eerie parallels with everyone's favorite boy wizard, Harry Potter. Both…
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