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Saving Face is a 2012 documentary film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge about acid attacks on women in Pakistan. The film won an Emmy Award and the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject , making its director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Pakistan's first Oscar winner.
Obaid-Chinoy has won seven Emmy Awards, [16] [21] [22] [23] including two in the International Emmy Award for Current Affairs Documentary category for the films Pakistan's Taliban Generation [22] and Saving Face. [23] Her Academy Award win for Saving Face made her the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award, [24] [25] [26] and she is one of ...
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) Ceremony Year Name Country Film Status Notes 84th: 2011: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / Saving Face [3] Won First Pakistani to be nominated for – and to win – an Academy Award in any category; Award shared with Daniel Junge: 86th: 2013: Sara Ishaq / Karama Has No Walls: Nominated 88th: 2015 ...
In 2012, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy became the first Pakistani to win an Oscar, winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject alongside co-director Daniel Junge for their film Saving Face. [1] She won again in 2016 for the film A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, becoming the first female filmmaker to win twice in this ...
The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. [3] Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Bangladesh for review by the academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ...
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture , its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non ...
The Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film (or the Academy Award for Best Popular Film) was a proposed award to be presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It was announced as a new category by the Academy on August 8, 2018. [1] [2] [3]
Dr. Wilhelmina "Wil" Pang is a successful young American surgeon living in New York City. Wil is a lesbian but is closeted to her mother Hwei-Lan and her mother's friends. Wil is forced by her mother to come to a gathering at the restaurant Planet China with family friends where her mother has plans to set her up with a son of a friend, but Wil is drawn to Vivian, the daughter of one of the ...