Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is a two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose films have impacted legislative change. Since 2001, she has made more than two dozen multi-award-winning films in over 16 countries around the world. In 2022, she infused her signature style and the verisimilitude she brings to her nonfiction projects to her narrative directorial debut for Marvel’s critically acclaimed series, “Ms. Marvel.” The New York Times included her episodes in its annual list of the best TV episodes, calling them “ingenious and surprisingly moving.”

More recently, it was announced that Obaid-Chinoy will direct a “Star Wars” feature starring Daisy Ridley. She will also direct Paramount’s “Brilliance,” based on the Marcus Sakey novel of the same name.

Obaid-Chinoy is also the recipient of four Emmy Awards, a Knight International Journalism Award, two Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards, a RFK Journalism Award and the Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. She was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the world and in 2013, the Canadian government awarded her a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her work in the field of documentary films and the World Economic Forum honored her with a Crystal Award at their annual summit in Davos.