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Taika Waititi Dispels Myths Of Indigenous Stories, Producing & More In His PGA Norman Lear Award Speech


Taika Waititi mixed jokes and sincerity in his acceptance speech for the Norman Lear Achievement Award at the 2025 Producers Guild Awards.

Taika Waititi on Saturday at the PGA AwardsMichael Buckner Taika Waititi mixed jokes and sincerity in his acceptance speech for the Norman Lear Achievement Award on Saturday at the Producers Guild Awards for his work in television. He thanked his partners at FX and on the shows Reservation Dogs and What We Do in the Shadows. Waititi concluded by thanking his mother for exposing him to television in the first place, calling it “My original babysitter.

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