List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Pakistan

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy became the first Oscar-winner for Pakistan

This is the list of the Pakistani personalities who are Academy Award (informally known as Oscar) winners and nominees. As of 2015, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is an only official filmmaker that is acknowledged by Academy, who have won two Oscars in Best Documentary Short Subject category.^[1][2] However, Mir Zafar Ali is the only person associated with the Oscar-winning films in Best Visual Effects category, such as The Golden Compass, Frozen and Life of Pi as a visual effects artist.^{[3][N 1]}

Winners and nominees

List of the Pakistani Oscar nominee(s)/recipient(s), also showing the year, film, category, and result

Year	Nominee(s)/recipient(s)	Film	Category	Result/received	Ref.
2012 (84th)	Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy	Saving Face	Best Documentary Short Subject	Won	[5]
2016 (88th)		A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness		Won	[6]

Notes

1. Mir Zafar Ali has only worked in above mentioned Oscar-winning films as senior artist, but did not receive any nomination. He is only acknowledged by his team, in press coverage, not by the Academy.^[4]

See also

• List of Pakistani submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

1. "Pakistan's Oscar triumph for acid attack film Saving Face". BBC News (Nosheen Abbas). Retrieved 28 December 2014.
2. "Pakistan won its first Oscar on Sunday night for a documentary that chronicles the work of a British plastic surgeon who rebuilds the faces of women disfigured by acid attacks.". Rob Crilly. The Telegraph. 27 Feb 2012. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
3. "Mir Zafar Ali in the team of oscar winning films.". PakVibes. February 27, 2014. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
4. Zehra, Abid (March 25, 2002). "Karachi to Hollywood: Pakistani visual effects artist wins third Oscar". The Express Tribune. Tribune.com. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
5. "Nominees for the 87th Academy Awards BLA BLA". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
6. "Nominees for the 88th Academy Awards BLA BLA". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2013-04-22.