{"id":71652,"date":"2016-02-29T03:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71652"},"modified":"2016-02-29T03:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:42:46","slug":"tragic-tale-of-singer-amy-winehouse-wins-documentary-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/29\/tragic-tale-of-singer-amy-winehouse-wins-documentary-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic tale of singer Amy Winehouse wins documentary Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71653\" style=\"width: 4268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Asif-Kapadia-and-James-Gay-Rees-of-Amy-accept-award-for-best-documentary-at-the-88th-Annual-Academy-Awards.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71653\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71653\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Asif-Kapadia-and-James-Gay-Rees-of-Amy-accept-award-for-best-documentary-at-the-88th-Annual-Academy-Awards.jpg\" alt=\"Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees of Amy accept award for best documentary at the 88th Annual Academy Awards. (Photo courtesy of The Oscar)\" width=\"4268\" height=\"2841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Asif-Kapadia-and-James-Gay-Rees-of-Amy-accept-award-for-best-documentary-at-the-88th-Annual-Academy-Awards.jpg 4268w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Asif-Kapadia-and-James-Gay-Rees-of-Amy-accept-award-for-best-documentary-at-the-88th-Annual-Academy-Awards-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Asif-Kapadia-and-James-Gay-Rees-of-Amy-accept-award-for-best-documentary-at-the-88th-Annual-Academy-Awards-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Asif-Kapadia-and-James-Gay-Rees-of-Amy-accept-award-for-best-documentary-at-the-88th-Annual-Academy-Awards-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4268px) 100vw, 4268px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asif Kapadia (left) and James Gay-Rees (right) of Amy accept award for best documentary at the 88th Annual Academy Awards. (Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/oscar.go.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Oscar<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014\u201cAmy,\u201d a documentary about the musical genius and drug-induced death of jazz singer Amy Winehouse, won the Oscar for best documentary on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The film, with a gross box office haul of $8.4 million so far, represents 43-year-old London-born director Asif Kapadia&#8217;s first Oscar. It is now streaming on Amazon&#8217;s Prime video service in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis film&#8217;s all about Amy, showing the world who she really was,\u201d Kapadia said, describing the troubled singer-songwriter as \u201cfunny,\u201d \u201cintelligent,\u201d and \u201csomeone who needed looking after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kapadia shares the Oscar with producer James Gay-Rees, who also executive produced the Kapadia-directed documentary \u201cSenna,\u201d about the early death of Formula One race driver Ayrton Senna, in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014\u201cAmy,\u201d a documentary about the musical genius and drug-induced death of jazz singer Amy Winehouse, won the Oscar for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-71652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-ryan-nakashima","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}