Amy

Asif Kapadia's Amy premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2015 in the Midnight Screenings strand, before opening commercially in the UK in July, Kapadia's second feature-length archive-only documentary, after Senna (2010), and produced once again by James Gay-Rees for On The Corner Films and Universal Music. The film was made with the formal cooperation of the Winehouse estate but, by the time of release, had lost the public backing of Amy's father Mitch Winehouse over the way the project handled his role in his daughter's later years.

Like Senna, the film uses no on-camera interviews and no narrator. Kapadia and editor Chris King work entirely with archive footage: Amy's own home videos, demo studio sessions, mobile-phone clips passed on by friends, and the long British paparazzi and tabloid record. Twenty-five voices (among them Mitch Winehouse, Tony Bennett, Mark Ronson, Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) and the songwriter's first manager Nick Shymansky) narrate from off-screen. The full Winehouse song catalogue, including unreleased demos, is licensed throughout.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 88th ceremony, three British Independent Film Awards including Best Documentary, the BAFTA for Best Documentary, the European Film Award for Best Documentary, and a Grammy for Best Music Film, and remains the highest-grossing British documentary in cinema history. It is now standard reference viewing in music journalism and documentary courses worldwide.