The making of Taika Waititi . career Movies Started later than most. He made his first short films in his late twenties, and soon earned him an Academy Award nomination. Waititi is halfway to joining the list of EGOT award winners as he holds an Oscar and a Grammy on his shelf. However, while promoting his latest movie, Thor: Love and Thunderwho calls His craziest movie yetWaititi made a dismissive comment about his Grammy winning.
Taika Waititi has won an Oscar, a Grammy and two Emmy nominations
Waititi started as an animator, but achieved success almost immediately when he turned his attention to filmmaking. short film Two cars, one nightearned an Oscar nomination for Best Live Short Act at the 2005 Academy Awards. The Waititi Grand Prix nominations didn’t stop there.
He won an Academy Award in 2020 for Best Adapted Screenplay for a Movie Satire against hate jojo rabbit. The film earned a Waititi nomination again for Best Picture (produced and directed).
The 2020 Waititi Awards train didn’t stop at the Academy Awards. jojo rabbit The New Zealander took home a Grammy win that year for Best Original Score. (His partner, singer Rita Ora, has yet to receive a Grammy nomination.)
In addition to an Oscar and a Grammy in 2020, Waititi scored Emmy nominations that same year. He’s got nods for the character’s outstanding voice performance (for The Mandalorian) and distinguished comedy series (for What do we do in the shade?).
Waititi will probably complete his EGOT achievement, but he clearly doesn’t rate the Grammys very highly.
Waititi shrugs off Grammy Award: ‘They only donate these things’ (But Rita Ora doesn’t have one)
jojo rabbitThe soundtrack contains a mixture of pop and orchestral music. Michael Giacchino, whose work appears in The IncrediblesAnd the higherAnd the inside outsideAnd the Rogue One: A Star Wars Storypenned the score, but Waititi had a hand in choosing other songs.
That was enough for Waititi to earn his first (and so far only) Grammy Award nomination. However, he didn’t talk much about the award during Google’s wired autocomplete segment (via Youtube):
“They only donate these things. Got Grammys for best soundtrack for jojo rabbitWhich is pretty much just getting the Grammys to create a playlist.”
Taika Waititi on winning a Grammy
Waititi and jojo rabbit Excellence Frozen IIRodgers’ biography Nice day aroundAnd the Bill and Ted face the musicAnd the Eurovision Song Contest: The Epic Story of Fire in the category. Waititi’s partner, Rita Ora, did not receive a Grammy nomination.
Waititi took home an Oscar and a Grammy which doesn’t seem to spark much excitement, and an Emmy could come for his work on any of his various TV projects (including The MandalorianAnd the Our knowledge means deathAnd the What do we do in the shade?). Tony may not come so easy, but time is on his side.
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What’s next for Waititi’s “Thor: Love and Thunder”?
Waititi wrote a screenplay love and thunder, so his hands are all over the film. Follow Thor: Ragnorokwhich was his directorial debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (and he had to lie to marvel for the job).
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love and thunder Has the potential to be popular (directed by Waititi Five Oscar winners alongside Chris Hemsworth in the movie), but he may have some other successful business.
His IMDb page appears insolence, based on the graphic novel, in pre-production. There is also untitled star Wars The project is scheduled for 2025, but if it turns out that his next project unknown.
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