Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi was born in Raukokore, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand on August 16th, 1975 and is the Director. At the age of 48, Taika Waititi biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Career
Waititi, a student at Victoria University of Wellington, was a member of the So You're a Man, a five-member comedy group that toured New Zealand and Australia with some success. He was one of the comedy pair The Humourbeasts starring Jemaine Clement, which received New Zealand's highest comedy award, the Billy T Award, in 1999. Waititi began making comedies for New Zealand's annual 48-hour film festival, which attracted a variety of artistic tastes. In 2005, his short film Two Cars, One Night (2003) won him an Academy Award nomination. He notably feigned unconsciousness as the nominations were revealed at the awards ceremony. In 2007, his first feature film, a romantic comedy titled Eagle vs. Shark, was released in U.S. theatres for limited availability. Loren Horsley co-wrote the film with Waititi. Waititi wrote and produced one episode of the TV show Flight of the Conchords that year and directed another.
He appeared on the New Zealand TV3 sketch comedy show Radiradiradirah in 2010, as well as frequent collaborators Rhys Darby and Jemaine Clement.
Boy, his second feature, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010 and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. Waititi also played a role in the film "The ex-convict father who returns to his family" as the ex-con father. Boy attracted raves after its debut in New Zealand and was unstoppable at the local box office, eclipsing many records. Waititi hoped that the film's success, "Poi E" would debut on the New Zealand charts for the second time. It reached #3 on iTunes, but it climbed to #1. Madeleine Sami, who plays five characters in one city, appeared in Waititi's latest television series Super City. In the superhero film Green Lantern, Waititi portrayed Thomas Kalmaku last year.
Waititi co-wrote, co-directed, and appeared in the vampire comedy mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows with Clement in 2013. In January 2014, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival for the first time. Waititi and Clement were active in a group of vampires who live in a gothic house in modern-day Wellington. In May 2018, Waititi as the executive producer and director, a television version of the film was ordered. The series of the same name premiered on FX in March 2019; its second season received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Waititi's fourth film, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The comedy adventure set a new Zealand film's first weekend when it was announced in New Zealand. It is based on a book by Barry Crump, and it focuses on a young boy (played by Julian Dennison) and a grumpy man (played by Sam Neill) on the run in the wood. Waititi wrote the initial screenplay for the 2016 Disney film Moana, which was primarily about gender and families. Those elements were discarded in favour of what became the final story.
Waititi received the award for New Zealander of the Year in 2017, but was unable to receive it in person due to work commitments. He directed Marvel Studios' Thor: Ragnarok, his first major studio film, which was released in October. In the film, he also portrayed Korg, a Kronan, by motion capture. He had produced a short film series titled Team Thor, chronicling Thor's and his roommate, Darryl Jacobson's lives. Thor: Ragnarok received critical esteem and was a hit at the box office, and he was very efficient at it. Waititi was later consulted by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely on Thor's storylines for Avengers: Infinity War in order to keep the character's consistency in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Waititi wrote and directed Jojo Rabbit, based on Christine Leunen's book Caging Skies, a child in the Hitler Youth whose mother is secretly hiding a Jewish child in their house. Waititi portrays Adolf Hitler as the boy's imaginary friend. Waititi has been nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay by the Academy Award for both Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. He won the latter, making him the first person of Mori descent to win an Academy Award in a screenplay category and the first indigenous individual to be nominated for and win Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2021, he received the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media as a producer of the Jojo Rabbit soundtrack.
Waititi will be one of the creators of the Star Wars live-action streaming film The Mandalorian, which tells the tale of a single Mandalorian gunfighter during the time between the events of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens in October 2018. Waititi also voices a droid bounty hunter named IG-11 in the series, which premiered on November 12, 2019. "Chapter 8: Redemption" is the series's first-season finale. In 2020, his voiceover work earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance.
Waititi narrated a charity reading of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl in 2020. Ratcatcher appeared in the DC superhero film The Suicide Squad, which was released in August 2021 to rave reviews. Waititi also portrayed Antwan Hovachelik, the antagonist of the action comedy film Free Guy, in August. Waititi co-created the comedy series Reservation Dogs, which chronicles the lives of a group of indigenous Oklahoma teenagers and includes a main cast, developers, and writers of indigenous peoples. On FX, it premiered and received raves.
In the HBO Max comedy film Our Flag Means Death, a Waititi executive produced, directed, and starred as Blackbeard. In March 2022, the first season was released. Time magazine listed him on its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in the same year. In the 2022 animated film Lightyear as Mo Morrison, Waititi appeared as a voice actor. Thor: Love and Thunder, a sequel to Thor: Ragnarok, was written and directed by Hen. In July 2022, it was announced.
Prior to directing Thor: Love and Thunder, Waititi produced a feature film version of the documentary Next Goal Wins. Armie Hammer's scenes were re-shot in late 2022, with Will Arnett taking over the lead. He is going to direct Akira's live-action film version. He is set to co-write a sequel to What We Do in the Shadows, titled We're Wolves, and write a live-action Star Wars film. Waititi is attached to produce two animated series for Netflix based on Roald Dahl's children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel, one adapting the novels and the other focusing on the novel's Oompa Loompa characters. He will executive produce and direct the Showtime limited series The Auteur. Flash Gordon's Flash Gordon script is set to write and direct a film based on Flash Gordon's Flash Gordon. Waititi would convert The Incal into a full film in November 2021.