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Tragic tale of singer Amy Winehouse wins documentary Oscar
Asif Kapadia (left), and James Gay-Rees accept the award for best documentary feature for âAmyâ at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb
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Asif Kapadia, (left), and James Gay-Rees accept the award for best documentary feature for âAmyâ at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (left), and James Gay-Rees accept the award for best documentary feature for âAmyâ at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello)
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span class="caption">Asif Kapadia (left), and James Gay-Rees accept the award for best documentary feature for 'Amy' at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
"Amy," a documentary about the musical genius and drug-induced death of jazz singer Amy Winehouse, won the Oscar for best documentary on Sunday.
The win capped a stellar awards season for the film, which is coming off dozens of other awards wins, including from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the Grammys, and numerous critics contests.
The film, with a gross box office haul of $8.4 million so far, represents 43-year-old London-born director Asif Kapadia's first Oscar. It is now streaming on Amazon's Prime video service in the U.S.
"This film's all about Amy, showing the world who she really was," Kapadia said, describing the troubled singer-songwriter as "funny," ''intelligent," and "someone who needed looking after."
Kapadia shares the Oscar with producer James Gay-Rees, who also executive produced the Kapadia-directed documentary "Senna," about the early death of Formula One race driver Ayrton Senna, in 2010. (kes)(+)
