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Jojo Rabbit director tells Los Angeles audience after winning best adapted screenplay: ‘we are the original storytellers’
“I dedicate this to all the Indigenous kids all over the world who want to do art and dance and write stories,” said Taika Waititi, the New Zealand filmmaker of the Nazi-era satire Jojo Rabbit, as he accepted his Oscar for best adapted screenplay at Monday’s ceremony. “We are the original storytellers and we can make it here as well.”
Waititi had just become the first Māori filmmaker to win an Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, which he adapted from the 2008 novel Caging Skies. Waititi also directed the film and starred in it as a bumbling, comedic Adolf Hitler. Continue reading...