Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Net Worth

Background and career

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (born 12 November 1978) is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and activist. Known for her work in films that highlight the inequality with women, as of 2019, her accolades include two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards and a Knight International Journalism Award. In 2012, the Government of Pakistan honoured her with the Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the second-highest civilian honour of the country. She features in listings of the world's most popular personalities and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012.

Obaid-Chinoy, born in Karachi, received her bachelor's degree in economics and government from the Smith College and two master's degrees from the Stanford University. While at Stanford, she made two award-winning films, and upon returning to Pakistan, she launched her career as a filmmaker with her first film Terror's Children (2002) for The New York Times. She went on to win the Emmy Award for Best Documentary for the war-on-terror Pakistan's Taliban Generation (2009). She gained wider recognition for the documentaries Saving Face (2012) and the biographical A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2016). For her work in both of these, she won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject Documentary and five Emmy Awards in different categories. She gained wider recognition for making the musical journey Song of Lahore (2015), and the animated 3 Bahadur film series (2015–2018). The latter is the country's first-ever computer-animated feature length film.

Obaid-Chinoy has overall won seven Emmy Awards, two of which are the Emmy Award for Best Current Affairs Documentary. 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, is one of only eleven female directors who have ever won an Oscar for a non-fiction film and is the first female film director to have won two Academy Awards by the age of 37. She is the first non-American to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for Reinventing the Taliban (2003). The 2015 animated adventure 3 Bahadur made her the first Pakistani to make a computer-animated feature-length film. In 2017, Obaid-Chinoy became the first artist to co-chair the World Economic Forum.