Taika Waititi has made Oscars history. At the 92nd Academy Awards Sunday, the `Jojo Rabbit` writer-director-actor took the prize for adapted screenplay. This makes Waititi the first person of Maori descent to win an Oscar. He was the first ever indigenous person to be nominated in the category.

He thanked his mom for `being my mother` and for introducing him to the book he adapted, Christine Leunens's `Caging Skies,` before dedicating his win to Indigenous children around the world with aspirations to create art.`I dedicate this to all the Indigenous kids in the world who want to do art and dance and write stories,` he said. `We are the original storytellers and we can make it here, as well.`

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Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on.