Asif Kapadia is a British documentary filmmaker of Indian heritage, widely regarded as one of the greatest documentary directors working today. He is best known for his trilogy of music documentaries — Senna (2010), Amy (2015) and Diego Maradona (2019) — each of which is considered among the finest sports or music documentaries ever made.
Amy, his film about Amy Winehouse, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2016. Senna won the BAFTA for Best Documentary. His immersive, archive-driven approach — building intimate psychological portraits of complex geniuses from found footage and personal testimonies — has created a distinctive and influential documentary style.
Born in Hackney to Gujarati Indian parents, Kapadia is an important figure in British Asian filmmaking. His work demonstrates that British Asian directors can tell stories of universal significance and achieve the highest levels of global recognition.