Taika Waititi | Executive Producer | What We Do in the Shadows on FX

Taika Waititi is an Academy Award®-winning writer, director and actor. His film Jojo Rabbit received six Oscar® nominations, including Best Picture, and earned him an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film, which was released by Searchlight Pictures, was also nominated for a Golden Globe® for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and earned a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, among other accolades. Previously, Waititi directed the critically acclaimed blockbuster Thor: Ragnarok for Disney, as well as the beloved indie films Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do in the Shadows, Boy and the Oscar-nominated short film Two Cars, One Night. He also executive produced through his production company with Carthew Neal (Piki Films) The Breaker Uppers, Baby, Done and the first Indigenous Canadian/New Zealand co-production, Night Raiders, which premiered at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.

Waititi is currently in post-production on Next Goal Wins for Searchlight Pictures, which he wrote, directed and produced, based on the 2015 documentary of the same name, as well as Thor: Love and Thunder, which will be released on July 8, 2022. The highly anticipated film, written and directed by Waititi, stars Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson and Natalie Portman. Previously, Waititi was seen in Shawn Levy’s Free Guy from 20th Century Studios, alongside Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer and Joe Keery.

For television, Waititi is the co-creator and executive producer of the Indigenous American teen comedy Reservation Dogs for FX, for which he co-wrote the first episode with co-creator Sterlin Harjo. The series has been well-received, winning the 2021 Gotham Award for Short-Form Breakthrough Series, the 2022 Independent Spirit Award for Best New Scripted Series and a 2022 Peabody Award, as well as earning nominations for the 2022 Critics’ Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Writers Guild of America Awards. On screen, Waititi stars as “Blackbeard” in the HBO Max period comedy Our Flag Means Death. He is also the executive producer for the series and directed the pilot episode, which debuted on the streaming platform in March 2022. Additionally, Waititi directed the season one finale of The Mandalorian for Disney+, in which he also voices “IG-11.”