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  • Amy Winehouse’s Father Slams Oscar-Winning Documentary About His Daughter

    Amy Winehouse’s father has bashed the Oscar-winning documentary directed by Asif Kapadia about the troubled singer, calling the film a a “negative, spiteful, misleading portrayal” of his daughter’s life.

    Amy was named Best Documentary Feature at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, but the late singer’s father was not too keen to celebrate.

    Mitch Winehouse and other family members have been critical of the documentary about Amy Winehouse since its inception. Mitch opened up on Twitter about his feelings on Asif Kapadia’s win following the award ceremony.

    “Always proud of my baby. Amy will not get an oscar though,” he wrote on Twitter. “Just Asif Kapadia. That is what this is all about … Asif. He’s fooled everybody.”

    “I am not changing my stance just because film won Oscar. It’s a negative, spiteful and misleading portrayal of Amy. We will fix this,” Winehouse continued.

    “I am not changing my stance just because film won Oscar. It’s a negative, spiteful and misleading portrayal of Amy. We will fix this.

    Amy Winehouse’s family vocalized their disapproval of the film even before it was released a statement, saying that Amy is “both misleading and contains some basic untruths.”

    “The narrative is formed by the testimony of a narrow sample of Amy’s associates,” the statement read, “many of whom had nothing to do with her in the last years of her life. Counter views expressed to the filmmakers did not make the final cut.”

    Last week, Mitch Winehouse hinted in a tweet that there are other, more realistic projects in the works about his daughter.

    “My friends. This film will not be the defining image of Amy,” he wrote on Feb. 21. “We are already working on other projects. I can’t say more at this stage.”

  • Amy Winehouse Film Wins Best Documentary at BAFTAs

    The Amy Winehouse film titled Amy won the award for best documentary at the BAFTAs this weekend. It was the second such win for director Asif Kapadia.

    Amy premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last summer. It features an intimate look at Amy Winehouse–her talent, her rise to fame, and her fatal addiction to drugs.

    As he accepted his award, Asif Kapadia said of the film, “It was all about Amy.”

    “We really fell in love with her when making the film. And our aim and mission was really to try and tell the truth about her,” he said of Winehouse. “To show the world what an amazing person she was, how intelligent, how witty, how beautiful she was, before it all kind of got out of control and went a bit crazy.”

    Several of Amy Winehouse’s friends took part in the film project. Amy’s father Mitch Winehouse, however, spoke out against the film once it was completed. He believed it portrayed him as being uncaring.

    With this BAFTA win, there is much speculation that the Amy Winehouse film is in line for an Oscar. Fans will only need to wait two weeks to find out.

    Were you an Amy Winehouse fan? Do you hope to see Amy if it hits a theater near you?