Pakistan Celebrates First Ever Oscar Win

February 27, 2012 from Al Jazeera English

For the first time in Oscar history, a Pakistani film has won an Academy Award. "Saving Face," a short documentary directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge, tells the story of a plastic surgeon who returns to his homeland from the UK to help victims of acid burns. Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab met filmmaker Obaid-Chinoy's family in Karachi.

(more) (less)

In This Video

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, is an Emmy and Oscar award-winning Pakistani-Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker. She won an Academy Award for her documentary, Saving Face in 2012. She won an Emmy for her documentary, Pakistan: Children of the Taliban in 2010. She is also the... Explore this topic

Saving Face

Saving Face is a 2012 documentary film about acid attacks on women. The film was directed by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Daniel Junge. The film has been awarded the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary, making its director, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Pakistan's first Oscar winner. Explore this topic

84th Academy Awards

The 84th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 2011 in the United States and took place February 26, 2012, at the Hollywood and Highland Center Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. P... Explore this topic

Daniel Junge

Daniel Junge is an Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker. On February 26, 2012, he won an Academy Award for his documentary film Saving Face, which he directed along with Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado. Explore this topic

Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a sovereign country in South Asia. With a population exceeding 180 million people, it is the sixth most populous country in the world. Located at the crossroads of the strategically important regions of South Asia, Cent... Explore this topic

Academy Award

The Academy Awards, now officially known as The Oscars, are a set of awards given annually for excellence of cinematic achievements. The Oscar statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit and is one of nine types of Academy Awards. Organized and overseen by the Aca... Explore this topic

Acid attack

Acid throwing, also called an acid attack or vitriolage, is a form of violent assault. It is defined as the premeditated act of throwing acid onto the body of a person "with the intention to disfigure, maim, torture, or kill.”Perpetrators of these attacks throw acid at their v... Explore this topic

Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject

This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the follo... Explore this topic

Plastic surgery

Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic; plastic surgery includes many types of reconstructive... Explore this topic

Cinema of Pakistan

The cinema of Pakistan refers to Pakistan's film industry. Most of the feature films shot in Pakistan are in Urdu language but may also include films in English, Punjabi, Pashto, Balochi or Sindhi languages. Pakistan's largest film industry is Lollywood. Before the separation ... Explore this topic

Also See

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Saving Face

84th Academy Awards

Watch Next

4:29

Pakistani Pride in Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy's Oscar Win

LinkAsia | Mar 6

Pakistani social media exploded last week when director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy became the first Pakistani filmmaker to win an Oscar, with the docume...