Mitch Winehouse slams Amy Oscar win

Amy took home the Oscar for Best Documentary feature at the 88th Annual Academy Awards.

One of the most captivating documentaries of the past decade, Amy was lauded for its insightful, poignant, yet disturbing footage, charting the singer's rise to fame and her eventual downfall, due to an alcohol addiction.

The film was up aganist Cartel Land, The Look of Silence, What Happened, Miss Simone? and Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom.

Director Asif Kapadia and producer James Gay-Rees paid tribute to the film's late superstar. "This film is all about Amy," said Kapadia accepting the award. "This is about showing the world who she really was, not a tabloid persona, the beautiful girl, the amazing soul, funny, intelligent, witty, someone special, someone who needed looking after."

Gay-Rees added: "This is for Amy’s fans, who loved her through thick and thin."

The win didn't go down well with her father, Mitch Winehouse, who's been highly critical of Kapadia and the film.

"Always proud of my baby," he says. "Amy will not get an Oscar, though. Just Asif Kapadia. That is what this is all about... Asif. He's fooled everybody. I'm not changing my stance just because the film won an Oscar. It's a negative, spiteful and misleading portrayal of Amy. We will fix this."

We spoke to Amy's friend and first manager, Nick Shymansky, about the documentary before Christmas:
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