Taika David Cohen, known professionally as Taika Waititi, is a New Zealand film and television director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and comedian. He is the recipient of an Academy Award as well as two further nominations. He has also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. His feature films Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople have each been the top-grossing New Zealand films.
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Taika David Cohen, known professionally as Taika Waititi, is a New Zealand film and television director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and comedian. He is the recipient of an Academy Award as well as two further nominations. He has also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. His feature films Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople have each been the top-grossing New Zealand films. His most recent directing credits include the superhero film Thor: Ragnarok and the black comedy film Jojo Rabbit, the latter of which he also wrote and starred in as an imaginary version of Adolf Hitler. He was half of the comedy duo The Humourbeasts alongside Jemaine Clement, which received New Zealand’s highest comedy accolade, the Billy T Award, in 1999. In 2011, Waititi directed New Zealand TV series Super City, starring Madeleine Sami, who plays five characters living in one city. In 2013, he co-wrote and co-directed vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows with friend and fellow comedian Jemainelement.
The series of the same name premiered on FX in March 2019. A television adaptation of the film was commissioned in May 2018, with Waititi on board as an executive producer and director. His second feature, Boy, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. His first feature film, oddball romantic comedy Eagle vs Shark, was released in U.S. theatres for limited distribution in 2007. The film stars Waititi’s then real-life partner, Loren Horsley, as Lily. The same year, he wrote and directed one episode of the TV show Flight of the Conchords and was director of another. He continued to use the name Waititi professionally following the success of his first short film, So You’re a Man, which toured New Zealand and Australia with some success.
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