 Her visual contributions have earned her numerous awards, including two Academy Awards in the Best Short Subject in 2012 and 2016 and two Emmy Awards in the same category in 2010 and 2011.Obaid-Chinoy has also won six Emmy Awards, including two of which are in the International Emmy Award for Current Affairs Documentary category for the films, the terrorist drama "Pakistan's Taliban Generation" and the documentary "Saving Face" (2012) 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 and she is one of only eleven female directors who have ever won an Oscar for a non-fiction film.She is also the first non-American to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.