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Taika David Cohen ONZM (born 16 August 1975), known professionally as Taika Waititi(/ˈtaɪkə ˈwaɪtɪti/ TY-kə WY-tee-tee), is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor and comedian. He is known for directing quirky comedy films and has expanded his career as a voice actor and producer on numerous projects. He has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award. 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 top-grossing New Zealand film. Waititi's 2003 short film Two Cars, One Night earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. He co-wrote, co-directed 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 film's soundtrack. In television, Waititi co-created 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 Mandalorian series, he voiced the character IG-11, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Taika Waititi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Taika Waititi
Director
for Director in The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018)
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Four Turtles are accidentally put into the sewers of New York and found by Martial artist Hamato Yoshi. The 4 are exposed to mutagen along with Yoshi and becomes 4 humanoid turtles and a human-rat hybrid. Yoshi renames himself Splinter and the turtles to Renaissance artists. Splinter teaches them martial arts and treats them like his sons. April O’Neil is a rookie reporter wanting to find the ‘big story’. She investigates Oroku Saki, a wealthy businessman. She discovers he’s a member of the Foot Clan known as Shredder. April plans on telling the public and Shredder sends men to kill her. The Turtles intervene and save her life. They bring her to the lair and decide that they should team up to stop Shredder When Splinter reveals his past as Yoshi and being old friends with Shredder. Shredder plans on taking over the criminal underworld and kill Splinter once and for all but the turtles are determined to stop him.
