Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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26 wins & 9 nominations

Academy Awards, USA

2016 Winner Oscar
- Best Documentary, Short Subject
- A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
2012 Winner Oscar
- Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Saving Face
Shared with: Daniel Junge

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)

2015 Nominee Audience Award
- IDFA Audience Award
- Song of Lahore
12th Place
Shared with: Andy Schocken

Aspen Shortsfest

2012 Winner Audience Award
- Saving Face
Shared with: Daniel Junge

Atlanta Film Festival

2016 Nominee Jury Award
- Best Documentary Feature
- A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
Shared with: Geeta Gandbhir

Banff Television Festival

2004 Winner Special Jury Prize
- Television
- Reinventing the Taliban?
2004 Winner Banff Rockie Award
- Special Jury Prize

International Documentary Association

2012 Winner IDA Award
- Best Short
- Saving Face
Shared with: Daniel Junge · Davis Coombe · Alison L. Greenberg · Sabiha Sumar · Aaron Kopp · Fazeelat Aslam · Lisa Heller · Sheila Nevins

International Emmy Awards

2014 Winner Emmy
- Documentary
- Pakistan's Taliban Generation
2010 Winner Emmy
- Current Affairs
- Frontline/World

News & Documentary Emmy Awards

2020 Nominee Emmy
- Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine
- Freedom Fighters
Shared with: Maheen Sadiq · Amanda Pike · Rachel de Leon · Husain Qaizar · Nadir Siddiqui · Khurram Victor
2019 Winner Emmy
- Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary
- Doc World
For "Armed with Faith"
Shared with: Noland Walker · Chris Hastings · Perri Peltz · Asad Faruqi · Sally Jo Fifer · Flavia de Souza · Lois Vossen · Amy Shatsky-Gambrill · Geeta Gandbhir
2017 Winner Emmy
- Best Documentary
- A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Shared with: Tina Brown · Sheila Nevins · Lisa Heller
2017 Nominee Emmy
- Outstanding Short Documentary
- A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Shared with: Tina Brown · Sheila Nevins · Lisa Heller
2013 Winner Emmy
- Best Documentary
- Saving Face
Shared with: Sheila Nevins · Lisa Heller · Davis Coombe · Alison L. Greenberg · Sabiha Sumar · Daniel Junge

RiverRun International Film Festival

2016 Winner Jury Prize
- Humanitarian Award
- A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
Shared with: Geeta Gandbhir
2016 Winner Jury Prize
- Humanitarian Prize
- A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
Shared with: Geeta Gandbhir

Tribeca Film Festival

2015 Nominee Audience Award
- Documentary
- Song of Lahore
Shared with: Andy Schocken
2015 Nominee Jury Award
- Best Documentary Feature
- Song of Lahore
Shared with: Andy Schocken

Cinema for Peace Awards

2025 Winner Cinema for Peace Award
- Cinema for Peace Dove for Women's Empowerment
- Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge
Shared with: Trish Dalton · Diane von Fürstenberg

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

2010 Winner duPont-Columbia Award
- Frontline/World

DOC NYC

2015 Nominee Viewfinders Grand Jury Prize
- A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
Shared with: Geeta Gandbhir

Documentary Edge Festival

2016 Winner World Cinema Award
- Best International Short
- A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

Juliane Bartel Awards, DE

2012 Winner Juliane Bartel Medienpreis
- Saving Face

One World Media Awards

2007 Winner Broadcast Journalist of the Year

Abu Dhabi Film Festival

2012 Winner Audience Choice Award
- Saving Face
Shared with: Daniel Junge

Sport Movies & Tv - Milano International FICTS Fest

2023 Winner Guirlande d'Honneur
- MOVIES & TV FOOTBALL FEATURE
- I Am Somebody
Shared with: Conrad Alleblas

Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards

2017 Winner LAIFF September Award
- Best Woman Filmmaker
- Ladies First
Shared with: Shaana Levy

Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards

2017 Winner Award of Excellence - September
- Producers
- Ladies First
Shared with: Shaana Levy

Bentonville Film Festival

2016 Winner Jury Award
- Best Documentary
- A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers
Shared with: Geeta Gandbhir

American Short Film Awards

2012 Winner Jury Award
- Best Documentary Short Film
- Saving Face
Shared with: Daniel Junge

Los Angeles Animation Festival

2019 Winner Humanitarian Award
- Humanitarian Project
- Sitara: Let Girls Dream
2019 Winner Special LAAF Jury Award
- Best Produced Screenplay
- Sitara: Let Girls Dream
Shared with: Gloria Steinem

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