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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.
Academy Award (also listed as Academy Award Theater) [1] is a CBS radio anthology series, which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays, novels, or films. Dramas in which actors recreated their original film roles included Henry Fonda in Young Mr. Lincoln , Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon , Cary Grant in Suspicion , Gregory Peck in The ...
Audio and Radio Industry Awards: Radio Academy: Excellence in radio and audio presenting and production United Kingdom: BBC Audio Drama Awards: BBC Radio: Excellence in the radio industry, in particular in audio dramas United Kingdom: Community Radio Awards: Community Radio Awards: Showcase the work of community radio volunteers United Kingdom ...
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 ...
The awards were organised into various categories, with nominees being announced a few weeks before the main awards ceremony. The categories varied slightly each year, and were decided by an annual committee, with the aim to include all the main areas from music, news and speech through to radio drama, comedy and sport, and not discriminating against station size, or niche categories.
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 ...
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 ...
Saving Face is a 2004 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Alice Wu, in her feature-length debut. [2] The film focuses on Wilhelmina, a young Chinese American surgeon; her unwed, pregnant mother; and her dancer girlfriend. It was the first Hollywood movie that centered on Chinese Americans since The Joy Luck Club (1993). [3]