{"id":3474,"date":"2012-02-26T23:46:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T04:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2012-02-26T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T04:59:08","slug":"oscars-2012-saving-face-wins-for-documentary-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/oscars-2012-saving-face-wins-for-documentary-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2012: &#8216;Saving Face&#8217; wins for documentary short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theenvelope.latimes.com\/galleries\/photo\/oscars\/env-oscars-2012-winners-pictures,0,1247936.photogallery\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Saving Face: Click for more winners\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0168e7cf11ee970c-600wi\" alt=\"Saving Face\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saving Face&#8221; won the Oscar for documentary short at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Daniel\u00a0Junge\u00a0and\u00a0Sharmeen\u00a0Obaid-Chinoy\u00a0film follows British plastic surgeon Dr. MohammadJawad, who returns to his homeland to help victims of acid burns. The film follows one woman as she fights to see that the perpetrators of the crime are imprisoned for life.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary competed against \u201cGod Is the Bigger Elvis,\u201d a\u00a0Rebecca\u00a0Cammisa\u00a0and Julie Anderson film about a mid-century starlet who chose the church over Hollywood;\u00a0\u201cThe Barber of Birmingham,\u201d a Gail\u00a0Dolgin\u00a0and Robin\u00a0Fryday\u00a0film that follows the life of 85-year-old barber James Armstrong and the legacy of the civil rights movement; James Spione\u2019s war film \u201cIncident in\u00a0New Baghdad\u201d; and \u201cThe Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom,\u201d a film by Lucy Walker and Kira\u00a0Carstensenthat follows survivors of Japan&#8217;s 2011 earthquake and their struggle to recover from the wave that crushed their homes and lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Saving Face&#8221; won the Oscar for documentary short at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}