Taika Waititi

Taika David Cohen ONZM born 16 August 1975 known professionally as Taika Waititi ˈtaɪkə ˈwaɪtiti TYkə WYteetee is a New Zealand filmmaker writer actor and comedian He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and six Emmy Awards Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022 His feature films Boy 2010 and Hunt for the Wilderpeople 2016 have each been the topgrossing film entirely funded and produced within New Zealand Waititis 2003 short film Two Cars One Night earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film He cowrote codirected and starred in the horror comedy film What We Do in the Shadows 2014 with Jemaine Clement which was adapted into a television series of the same name in 2019 The series has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series His directing credits include the superhero films Thor Ragnarok 2017 and Thor Love and Thunder 2022 as well as the black comedy film Jojo Rabbit 2019 the last of which he also wrote and starred in as an imaginary version of Adolf Hitler Jojo Rabbit received six Academy Award nominations and won Best Adapted Screenplay Waititi also earned a Grammy Award for producing the films soundtrack In television Waititi cocreated and produced the comedy drama series Reservation Dogs and directed produced and starred in the comedy Our Flag Means Death In addition to directing an episode of the series The Mandalorian he voiced the character IG11 for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character VoiceOver Performance Description above from the Wikipedia article Taika Waititi licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia