Now Amy is shortlisted for the Best Documentary award at the 2016 Oscars ceremony lined up next to other music-related documentaries such as Nina Simone’s biopic What Happened, Miss Simone? and Laurie Anderson’s Heart Of A Dog. However to many peoples surprise, Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck was not shortlisted for this award.

Earlier this year, Asif Kapadia spoke to NME about the making of Amy. He mentioned how during the process of the creation of Amy, he became increasingly angry when he found out more about Winehouse’s struggles and demise, he mentioned how he wanted the audience to feel what he was feeling so they could understand what Amy was going through.

“People watching the film tend to feel a bit guilty,” the filmmaker said. “One reading of it is that we all got into this idea that we could bully this girl, or join in laughing at her, because she wouldn’t answer back and didn’t have anyone around her who seemed to care.

“We never stopped to think about what we were doing to her. This is a girl who had a mental illness, yet every comedian, every TV host, they all did it with such ease, without even thinking. We all got carried away with it.”