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Winners and nominees. 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 ...
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Urdu: شرمین عبید چنائے; born November 12, 1978) is a Canadian-Pakistani journalist, filmmaker and political activist known for her work in films that highlight gender inequality against women. Obaid-Chinoy is slated to direct the next Star Wars film, due for release in 2026, and which ...
The film, which won a major award at the Moscow International Film Festival, was about the daily lives of East Pakistani fishermen. Pakistan's second submission, The Veil, [12] is about the disappearance of a veiled young bride on the day she is scheduled to be married off to a rich young man. The third film Zinda Bhaag was the Punjabi ...
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. [1][2] The film was inspired from the life of acid ...
First Muslim to be nominated for an Academy Award in any category; Nomination shared with John L. Balderston, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, and Waldemar Young. 70th. 1997. Hossein Amini [6] /. The Wings of the Dove. Nominated. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Henry James;
Russia, Georgia, Estonia and Kazakhstan are the only post-Soviet states to have been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award. ^ a b Czechoslovakia was nominated for the first time in 1965 for a Slovak-language film. Its five other nominations, the last of which occurred in 1991, were received for Czech-language films.
The Pakistani Academy Selection Committee (PASC) is a non-governmental selection committee of Pakistani film director, producers, writers, actors, distributors and exhibitors, headquartered in Karachi and Lahore. [1] The PASC selects the Pakistani Official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film each year. [2]
First Black actor to be nominated for Best Actor. 1963. Lilies of the Field. Homer Smith. Won. First Black man to win a competitive Oscar. First Bahamian to win Best Actor. First Black actor to receive two acting nominations (Best Actor). Youngest Black actor to win Best Actor (age 37).