Taika Waititi
Date of Birth: Aug 16, 1975
Country: New Zealand
Biography: Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian. He is a recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award, and has received two nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. His feature films Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) have each been the top-grossing New Zealand film. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual list in 2022. [Wikipedia]
Total Credits at Criticker: 25 (Actor), 17 (Director), 14 (Writer), 2 (Creator)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (25) | Director (17) | Writer (14) | Creator (2)
- The Mandalorian (2019) - S1 E1
- The Reckoning (2019) - S1 E7
- Redemption (2019) - S1 E8
- The Trial (2019) - S1 E7
- The Prisoner (2021) - S3 E1
- The Portrait (2021) - S3 E10
- What We Do in the Shadows: Pilot (2019) - S1 E1
- Ancestry (2019) - S1 E10
Our Flag Means Death (2022) - TV Series
The year is 1717. Wealthy landowner Stede Bonnet has a midlife crisis and decides to blow up his cushy life to become a pirate. It does not go well. Based on a true story.
Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct (imdb.com).
Lightyear is a sci-fi action-adventure and the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans) — the hero who inspired the toy. The film reveals how a young test pilot became the Space Ranger that we all know him to be today (disneyfandom.com).
Save Ralph (2021) - Short Film
Ralph, a bunny being interviewed for a documentary, goes through his daily routine as a "tester" in a lab.
A bank teller discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal, open world video game.
English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings.
A young boy in Hitler's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
The Mandalorian (2019) - TV Series
A small-town couple finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there's one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides of a deranged cult. (imdb)
All or Nothing: New Zealand All Blacks (2018) - TV Mini-Series
For the first time ever, The New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, known as the winningest team in global sports history, allows cameras into their super secretive world to witness one of their most difficult seasons yet. Over four months, they face the demands of the most physically grueling team sport on the planet to uphold a legacy of excellence and dominance that goes back well over a century. (amazon)
Documentary portrait of pioneering filmmaker and mother Merata Mita, detailing how her filmmaking intersected with the lives of her children and indigenous filmmakers globally, and featuring rare archival footage dating back to 1977. (imdb)
Imprisoned, the mighty Thor finds himself in a lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must fight for survival and race against time to prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home and the Asgardian civilization. (imdb)
Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) - three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life's obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. (imdb)
The Captain (2013) - Short Film
A man wakes up with a hangover, only to discover the consequences of his actions.
A test pilot is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers, as well as membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.
It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. (imdb)
Radiradirah (2010) - TV Series
An all-star team of Kiwi talent contributed to this sketch comedy — including Taika Waititi, Rhys Darby, the bro'Town team, and 'special guest stars' Jemaine Clement and John Clarke. In-between one-off and ongoing sketches, there were regular appearances (of) an oddball alien character with plans for planet Earth. There were also animated inserts like laconic sheep tale The Pen, FOT and the Kiwi accents of Beached Az... Bro'Town creator Elizabeth Mitchell was producer and lead director. (NZOS)
From New Zealand comes a wickedly offbeat love story - a funny, fractured romance between two total misfits, woven into an all-consuming quest for revenge, and shot through with the strange, sweet hilarity of the human condition. (Miramax Films)
Three male vampires who share an apartment are interviewed by a TV crew. (imdb)
This film follows Bret McKenzie's career diversion from Flight of the Concords into Middle Earth and back again. We travel with Bret, Jemiane Clement and Taika Waititi to Edinburgh where the Flight of the Concords are due to perform. Coming to see their show are a group of Lord of the Ring's fans from around the World who have all noticed McKenzie's brief role as an extra the The Fellowship of the Ring. See what happens when these fans meet each other and the Elf they have called FIGWIT (imdb)
Heinous Crime (2004) - Short Film
Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. (imdb)
Turangawaewae (2002) - Short Film
Actor Wi Kuki Kaa plays Tiare, a Vietnam War veteran who is dislocated by his experiences of war, and homelessness. He wanders the city streets, collecting ephemera in plastic bags. Nancy Brunning plays his daughter, who, with her own daughter, visits their reluctant koro to convince him to visit his ancestral home. The result is a moving story about a man jolted to find his turangawaewae, and the whanau that helps him get there. (NZ On Screen)
Five kiwi flatmates find something growing in their basement much to their delight, but when the rightful owner comes knocking and finds that they have appropriated the goods things start to go awry. (imdb)
What We Do in the Shadows (2019) - TV Series
