Searching for Sugar Man director dies at 36

London: Malik Bendjelloul, the director of Oscar-winning documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man', has died in Sweden. He was 36.

Police spokeswoman Pia Glenvik said that Bendjelloul died in Stockholm late on Tuesday. The police did not specify the cause of death and said no crime was suspected, the Guardian reported.

'Searching for Sugar Man', which detailed the life and career of the American singer Sixto Rodriguez, won the Oscar for best documentary in 2013.

Bendjelloul grew up in central and southern Sweden and acted in the Swedish TV series Ebba and Didrik as a child during the 1990s. He studied journalism and media production at the Linnaeus University of Kalmar in southern Sweden and later worked as a reporter for the Swedish public broadcaster SVT.

He resigned from that job to travel the world and got the idea for 'Searching for Sugar Man' during one of his trips.