First Oscar for Pakistan won by Chinoy Sharmeen Obadiah

"First Oscar for Pakistan won by Chinoy Sharmeen Obadiah"

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, has been lauded as Pakistan’s first Oscar winner by the press and government. The Pakistani President conferred the Hill-e-Imtiaz on Obaid-Chinoy on 23 March 2012, for bringing honor to Pakistan as a filmmaker. Saving Face the film exposes the horrifying brutal acid attacks on women, and the amazing work of the British Pakistani plastic surgeon Mohammed Jawad, who travelled back to his country birth to rebuild the victims’ disfigured faces. Obaid-Chinoy dedicated the Oscar to “all the heroes working on the ground in Pakistan” and to “all the women in Pakistan who are working for change”.