 Obaid-Chinoy has also won six Emmy Awards, including two in the International Emmy Award for Current Affairs Documentary category for the films "Pakistan's Taliban Generation" and "Saving Face".Her Academy Award win for "Saving Face" made her the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award, and she is one of only 11 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.