Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Urdu: شرمین عبید چنائے‎; born 12 November 1978) is a Pakistani journalist, filmmaker and activist.[1][2] One of the most-popular and high-profile filmmakers of the world, she is particularly known for her work in films that highlights the inequality with women. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Academy Awards, six Emmy Awards and one Lux Style Award. In 2012, the Government of Pakistan honoured her with the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, the second highest civilian honour of the country, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Obaid-Chinoy has also won six Emmy Awards, including two of which are in the International Emmy Award for Current Affairs Documentary category for the films, the terrorist drama Pakistan's Taliban Generation[8] and the documentary Saving Face (2012)[9] Throughout her career, she has made many records, her Academy Award win for Saving Face made her the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award,[10][11][12] and she is one of only eleven female directors who have ever won an Oscar for a non-fiction film.[13][14][15] She is also the first non-American to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.[12] The 2015 animated adventure 3 Bahadur made her the first Pakistani to make a computer-animated feature-length film.[6][16][17] In 2017, Obaid-Chinoy became the first artist to co-chair the World Economic Forum.