Who is Roman Griffin Davis? 5 Things to Know About the ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Star

Taika Waititi owes a lot of this awards season to his mother, Robin Cohen. She’s the one who first told him that he should think about adapting Christine Leunens’ novel “Caging Skies” for the big screen.

By Erik Pedersen

At the Jan. 3 AFI Awards, Mel Brooks interrupted his speech about the American Film Institute’s women directors program to praise Taika Waititi for Searchlight’s “Jojo Rabbit.” However, he joked, the filmmaker “did not ask my permission to use Hitler!”

By Matt Grobar

Last night, the Costume Designers Guild had their say in the Oscar race. The 22nd annual CDG Awards were held and with only two of the five Academy Award nominees in the running here, all eyes were on this group to see if that might tell us anything. Well, that might just have happened, but not necessarily in the way that we were expecting. Did the race zig instead of zag? Read on for more to find out…

The Costume Designers Guild handed out its trophies for the 22nd annual CDG Awards with “Jojo Rabbit” and “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” receiving top honors among the costumers.

Given the amount of high-profile projects he’s currently linked to — an unnamed Star Wars film, Thor: Love and Thunder, an Akira live-action remake, to name just a few — the idea of Taika Waititi being anything other than one of the most in-demand directors on the planet may seem a little alien.But that was the case back in February 2012, when an early script for Jojo Rabbit — currently in the race for best picture and best adapted screenplay Oscars — was just one of 36 projects being pitched

This year’s crop of WGA-nominated adapted and original screenplays appears on the surface to be a grim lot. There’s war (“1917,” “Jojo Rabbit”), insidious homewreckers (“Parasite”), a Civil War-era coming-of age (“Little Women”) and an arch murder investigation (“Knives Out”), to name just a few of the nominated scripts.

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Jojo Rabbit's Taika Waititi wrote and directed the film. He stars as a young boy's imagined version of Adolph Hitler But as a Blu-ray feature makes clear, the filmmaker so much more.

By Andreas Wiseman

“1917” continued its award-winning streak on Sunday night when it took home the feature motion picture – dialogue award at the MPSE Golden Reel Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in sound editing. Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit” won for feature motion picture – music underscore.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

A couple of small surprises went down last night at the 70th Annual ACE Eddie Awards. The editing Guild is a noteworthy one because of how Best Film Editing ties into Best Pictures at the Academy Awards, so plenty of eyes were on this one last night. Interestingly, neither of the presumed favorites at ACE Eddie emerged victorious, perhaps setting the stage for an Oscar update. Read on for more below, including the full list of winners.

“Parasite” and “Jojo Rabbit” have won the top feature film trophies at the 70th Annual ACE Eddie Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

By Andreas Wiseman

The Jojo Rabbit breakouts are already lining up their next projects.While Archie Yates has been tapped for the Home Alone reboot, now it's the turn of the lead in Taika Waititi's dark comedy — Jojo himself — Roman Griffin Davis.The 12-year-old Golden Globe nominee is to star alongside Keira Knightley in an upcoming Christmas film, The Hollywood Reporterunderstands.The as-yet-untitled project is being produced by Matthew Vaughn's Marv Films, behind Rocketman and the Kingsman franchise,

By Dino-Ray Ramos

By Andreas Wiseman