Malik Bendjelloul, the director of the Academy Award-winning documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, has died at age 36 in Sweden. His cause of death is currently unknown, but police say they do not suspect any criminal activity.
That Searching for Sugar Man Beat How To Survive a Plague at the Oscars Is Such Bullshit

Malik Bendjelloul's Searching for Sugar Man, which won Best Documentary Feature at last night's Academy Awards, is a puff piece that exists to deify its subject, Sixto Díaz Rodríguez. It is less a documentary than a montage of fawning over this American folk musician who released two albums in the early '70s, only to…