Malik Bendjelloul dies at the age of 36.
He was the Oscar-winning music documentary "Searching for sugar Man"in 2013.
He died in Stockholm late Tuesday, but wouldn't specify where his body was found or the cause of death.
It was the first time a Swedish film had won an Oscar since Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" in 1984.
Bendjelloul was born in 1977 to Swedish translator Veronica Schildt Bendjelloul and doctor Hacene Bendjelloul 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 before joining SVT where he worked as a reporter on the culture program "Kobra."
He was working on a new movie before his death according to source though they wouldn't specify which movie.
Bendjelloul is survived by his parents and brother Johar Bendjelloul.
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