Last night’s Oscar ceremony saw Asif Kapadia’s heartbreaking film Amy about the turmoil of Amy Winehouse walk away with the title of Best Documentary.
The film has been roundly praised by critics and fans alike, with a huge 96% rating on the Rotten Tomatoes film review aggregation site and numerous other accolades.
However, one person the film has not been well received by is Amy’s father, Mitch Winehouse. He had tweeted previously that the victory was a self-centred one for director Kapadia:
Always proud of my baby. Amy will not get an oscar though. Just Asif Kapadia. That is what this is all about…Asif. He’s fooled everybody
— mitch winehouse (@mitchwinehouse) February 29, 2016
When the film scooped the award last night, Mitch was not pleased.
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.
— mitch winehouse (@mitchwinehouse) February 29, 2016
He maintains that the film is a skewed representation of the life and times of the late singer and her relationship with her family, and that the director had a biased agenda in mind when he made it.
