‘We are the original storytellers’ says Jojo Rabbit director after receiving award for winning best adapted screenplay
Oscars 2020: the complete list of winnersNine things we learned at the Oscars‘I’ve been a scoundrel all my life’: quotes of the night“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 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 adapted screenplay 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.