Amy Winehouse's Father, Mitch, Disses Director Asif Kapadi & Oscar-Winning Documentary!

By Victoria Guerra | Mar 02, 2016 12:20 PM EST

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Mitch Winehouse, the father of musician Amy Winehouse, has been very frontal about his opinion regarding last year's documentary film about her daughter, Amy, directed by Asif Kapadi. Hours after the doc won the top category for the genre at the Oscars, the legendary singer's dad made it clear he would still fight the film, calling it "spiteful."

After publicly saying he didn't think Amy had a shot at the Academy Awards, the singer's dad isn't about to go back on his words. He's certainly not going to try to make things smoother with Kapadi, after the director focused the award-winning doc on Winehouse's struggle with addiction.

According to The Independent, Winehouse took to Twitter to voice his discomfort with the film in general once more, saying he wouldn't change his stance on the film just because it won an Oscar, describing the project as a "negative, spiteful and misleading portrayal" of the "Rehab" singer. Winehouse also said that Kapadi had "fooled everybody" with the way he'd shown the iconic singer and her tragically short life.

The tweets have since been deleted, and Winehouse's Twitter account seems to have been deleted. It's unclear what kind of response Amy's father got from fans, many of whom blame him and the rest of her family for her struggles.

Mitch also appeared on RTE's Today to discuss his views on the documentary, as he attempted to set the record straight, regarding the last few years of his daughter's life. However, the line of questioning got the best of him, as he lost his patience when he was asked why he had renounced the documentary, after having so publicly given Kapadi information to make the film.

"I've just explained, we were told we were in safe hands with the Senna people, that's why we did it," Winehouse told Maura Derrane during the interview.

Currently, Winehouse is working on a new documentary, A Letter to Amy, which he hopes will shed light on what the last three years of his daughter's life were really like.

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