FrameThrower · Actors · Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi
7 films · 614 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2010–2022
Born 16 August 1975 · Wellington, New Zealand
Taika David Cohen ONZM, known professionally as Taika Waititi (/ˈtaɪkə ˈwaɪtiti/ TY-kə WY-tee-tee), is a New Zealand filmmaker, writer, actor, and comedian. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and six Emmy Awards. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.
His feature films Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) have each been the top-grossing film entirely funded and produced within New Zealand. Waititi's 2003 short film Two Cars, One Night earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 614 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2010–2022
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay2020
- Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit2020
- Time 1002022
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay2020
- Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate Award2016
- Wellingtonian of the Year (category award)2010
- Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award2007
- New Zealander of the Year
How their films are shot
Measured across 614 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Taika takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Taika takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 614 frames from Taika Waititi's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.