While honoring last year's Governors Awards recipients, new Oscar winner Taika Waititi also saluted Los Angeles' ancestral lands during the 2020 Oscars.
Taika Waititi saluted last year’s Governors Awards recipients, but he made sure to pay tribute to Los Angeles’ predecessors.
“The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would like to acknowledge that tonight we have gathered on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam and the Chumash,” he said onstage at the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday. “We acknowledge them as the first peoples of this land on which our motion picture community lives and works,” he said., becoming the first person of Maori descent to win an Academy Award and the first indigenous person to be nominated in the category.During his acceptance speech, he dedicated his honor to indigenous children around the world: “We are the original storytellers and we can make it here as well.
“This is for all the indigenous kids of the world who want to do art and dance and write stories. We are the original storytellers and we can make it here, as well.” -
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