Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

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Here are our picks for the big winners at the 2016 Oscars.

After 50 years Pakistan to send film to Oscars, but which one?

Pakistan has sent only two films to the Academy Awards since the foreign language film category was created in 1956.

For Taliban the biggest prize is Pakistan: Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

The Afghan war has been won by the Taliban. The American withdrawal is actually a retreat and the next stop for a buoyant Taliban is Pakistan worries documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will receive a civil award: Gilani

While Pakistan's media and political parties can often be sensitive to criticism, the prestige of an Oscar appears to have outweighed any qualms the government might feel about celebrating a film that shows the country in a bad light.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy gets Pakistan its first Oscar

The documentary filmmaker won the Oscar for her 52-minute documentary Saving Face, which traces the lives of of acid attack victims in Pakistan and a doctor who treats them.