Asif Kapadia, left, and James Gay-Rees accept the award for best documentary feature for Amy at the Oscars.
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Asif Kapadia directed films on Amy Winehouse and Ayrton Senna, and is now planning a documentary with the former England captain, according to The Sun. “What’s happened (as a result of the film) is the perception has changed”.
The film also won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) honour.
“Thank you the Academy for showing love to the film”. The chairman and CEO of Winehouse’s record label, Universal Music, was the man who first talked to Kapadia and Gay-Rees about the possibility of a feature documentary based on the famed but troubled artist.
“We were told by her friends to make sure they got the real Amy, not the public Amy, the one who was a lovely, beautiful, talented person”, the producer said. To the contributors, everyone who trusted us to actually make this film.
“We wanted to do a film about Amy, but it became about everyone else and what they did and how they portrayed her”, he said.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Amy”, a documentary about the musical genius and drug-and-alcohol fueled death of jazz singer Amy Winehouse, won the Oscar for best documentary on Sunday. The lovely girl, wonderful soul, funny, intelligent, witty – someone special, someone who needed looking after.
