In 2012, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy became the first Pakistani to win an Oscar, winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject alongside co-director Daniel Junge for their film Saving Face.
David Oyelowo took on the leading role of director Ava DuVernay's 2014 King biopic Selma, which depicted King's 1965 voting rights campaign and the famed march from Selma to Montgomery.