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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
As of 2022, Romania has submitted thirty-eight films for Oscar consideration, scoring its first nomination for Collective at the 93rd Academy Awards. The Best Foreign Film award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that ...
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 ...
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
Alice Wu (Chinese: δΌ ζ θ; born April 21, 1970) [1] is an American film director and screenwriter, known for her films Saving Face (2004) and The Half of It (2020).. Both of her films feature Chinese-American main characters and explore the lives of intellectual, lesbian characters.