• 2016: Oscar for Best Documentary, Short Subject for “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”
• 2012: Oscar for Best Documentary, Short Subjects for “Saving Face”
Abu Dhabi Film Festival
• 2012: Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary for “Saving Face”
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards
• 2010: duPont-Columbia Award for Best Documentary series for “Frontline/World”
American Short Film Awards
• 2012: Jury Award for Best Documentary Short Film for “Saving Face”
Aspen Shortsfest
• 2012: Audience Award for Best Documentary Short Film for “Saving Face”
Banff Television Festival
• 2004: Special Jury Prize for Television Documentary for Reinventing the Taliban?
• 2004: Banff Rockie Award by Special Jury Prize
Bentonville Film Festival
• 2016: Jury Award for Best Documentary for “A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers”
Documentary Edge Festival
• 2016: World Cinema Award for Best International Short for “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”
Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards
• 2017: Award of Excellence – September as Producers for “Ladies First”
International Documentary Association
• 2012: IDA Award for Best Short for “Saving Face”
International Emmy Awards
• 2014: Emmy Award for Documentary “Pakistan’s Taliban Generation”
• 2010: Emmy Award on Current Affairs for “Frontline/World”
Juliane Bartel Awards, DE
• 2012:Juliane Bartel Medienpreis for Documentary “Saving Face”
Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards
• 2017: LAIFF September Award for Best Woman Filmmaker for “Ladies First”
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 2017: Emmy for Best Documentary for “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”
• 2013: Emmy for Outstanding Science and Technology Programming for “Saving Face”
One World Media Awards
• 2007: Won Broadcast Journalist of the Year
RiverRun International Film Festival
• 2016: Jury Prize Humanitarian Award for “A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers”
Other Honours & Achievements
• First Pakistani to win an Academy Award.
• One of only eleven female directors who have ever won an Oscar for a non-fiction film.
• First non-American to win the Livingston Award for Young Journalists
• First artist to co-chair the World Economic Forum
• Awarded Hilal-e-Imtiaz by the Pakistani President in 2012
• Won World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award at Davos in 2013
• Honoured with Knight International Journalism Award in 2017