First Bangladeshi Oscar Winner Nafees Bin Zafar


In 80 years history of Oscar, the very first name of a Bangladeshi came up in 2007. The one and only Nafees Bin Zafar, a proud Bangladeshi has won the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards 2007 in OSCARS. He got this award in hand in 2008 on 11 February. He got this Oscar for the movie namely Pirates of the Caribbean-At World's end. He was the best for motion picture and film animation in this movie. At present, he is working Los Angeles based animation farm “DreamWorks” as principal engineer.

DreamWorks Animation is one of the best motion pictures and animation makers across the world. Nafees born in Dhaka in 1977 and he is the only son. He admitted Ispahani Public School & College in his childhood in Bangladesh. He left Bangladesh when he was in 11 and he went South Carolina Charleston in America. He completed his degree in Software engineering from Charleston.
He made various software application which was praiseworthy all over the world and after that, he was able to boost up his creativity in his own way.

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