Taika Waititi wins screenplay Oscar for Hitler satire Jojo Rabbit

Taika Waititi has won best adapted screenplay at the Oscars for his Nazi-era satire Jojo Rabbit, in which he played a fantasy version of Hitler.

The writer and director became the first Maori filmmaker to take home an Academy Award.

Speaking to the JC last month, the film maker said his mother, who is of Russian Jewish descent, who, provided the inspiration for the movie.

In his acceptance speech on Sunday, he dedicated the award to “all the Indigenous kids all over the world who want to do art and dance and write stories.