Amy

Using personal recordings, interviews, and performance footage, the documentary follows Amy Winehouse from her teenage years to global stardom and her death in 2011. It sets her extraordinary voice against a life shadowed by addiction, an eating disorder, and a fraught bond with her father.

The film offers a painful case study in self destruction, the pull of the family, and the way fame can amplify rather than contain distress. It is useful for thinking about addiction and eating disorders as expressions of deeper suffering. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2016.