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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has won two Academy Awards, both in the Best Documentary Short Subject category. The first was for Saving Face in 2012 and the second was for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness at the 88th Academy Awards on the 28th of February 2016.
3 Bahadur, released on the 22nd of May 2015 by Waadi Animations, was Pakistan's first computer-animated feature film. It was directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and became the country's highest grossing animated film of all time, earning Rs 6.5 million on just 50 screens.
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness exposed legal loopholes that allowed perpetrators of so-called honour killings to avoid prosecution in Pakistan. Following the film's screening at the Prime Minister's Secretariat in Islamabad in February 2016, Pakistan amended its laws on the practice.
Obaid-Chinoy became the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award when Saving Face won in 2012. She is also the first female film director to win two Academy Awards before the age of 37, and one of only eleven female directors to have won an Oscar in a non-fiction category.
In April 2023, Disney announced at Star Wars Celebration that Obaid-Chinoy would direct an untitled Star Wars film written by Steven Knight. The film, set fifteen years after The Rise of Skywalker and starring Daisy Ridley as Rey, had been scheduled for release on the 17th of December 2027 before being removed from the calendar in May 2025.
Obaid-Chinoy co-chaired the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos in January 2017. She was the first artist ever to hold that co-chair position at the forum's annual meeting.