"Searching for Sugar Man, " a widely praised movie also distributed by Sony Pictures Classics about the hunt for the missing musician Sixto Rodriguez, won the award for best feature documentary.

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Among the other DGA winners were Searching for Sugar Man director Malik Bendjelloul, who won the guild's documentary award for his study of the obscure singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriquez.

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