# ‘Amy’ Director Asif Kapadia Recalls Three-Act Quest to Becoming an Oscar Winner

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/amy-director-asif-kapadia-recalls-three-act-quest-to-becoming-an-oscar-winner/
- Published: 2026-10-22T17:55:33+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T18:41:02+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/amy-director-asif-kapadia-oscar-journey-mia-market-1236738292/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- Kapadia framed his career as a three-act journey.
- His documentaries use archival footage to create drama.
- He described *Senna*, *Amy* and *Diego Maradona* as genre films.

## Summary

Asif Kapadia described his filmmaking career as a three-act story during an appearance at the MIA Market in Rome. He traced it from discovering filmmaking as a student, through years of learning on film sets while earning a living, to becoming an Oscar-winning director with greater freedom to choose his projects.

Kapadia said his fiction-film training shaped his approach to documentaries, which he sees as genre films: *Senna* as an action film, *Amy* as a music-driven Bollywood film, and *Diego Maradona* as a gangster film. His films rely on archival and home-video footage to build character and drama; for *Amy*, he negotiated creative control with the singer’s label and family. One scene uses a previously unseen 2006 studio recording of Amy Winehouse performing “Back to Black”, where she completed two takes before leaving.

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