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Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) [1] is an American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 Academy Award–nominated animated short Your Face and his series of shorts featuring a dog character starting with 2004's Guard Dog.
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 ...
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 ...
Murphy, who has yet to win an Academy Award, was previously nominated in 2007 for his Dreamgirls role. Eddie Murphy Makes Epic Will Smith Slap Joke in Cecil B. DeMille Speech [Video] Skip to main ...
Saving face" is an idiom for preserving one's honor or prestige Saving Face may refer to: Saving Face, a 2004 American romantic comedy drama, named in reference to the sociological concept. Saving Face, a 2012 documentary short film "Saving Face", a season 2 episode of The Casagrandes
The documentary follows the story of a nineteen-year-old girl who survives an honor killing attempt by her father and uncle. [5] The protagonist has a solid stance on not forgiving her attackers, but the public pressures her into forgiving.
In 2006, Saving Face received a nomination at the GLAAD Media Awards, [23] and it won the Viewer's Choice Award at the Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan's equivalent of The Academy Awards. [3] In 2019, the film was named one of the 20 Best Asian American Films of the Last 20 Years by The Los Angeles Times. [24]