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15 September 2019 At the Toronto International Film Festival the film "Jojo Rabbit" won the Audience Award. Directed by New Zealand director Taika Waititi, it is a satirical comedy about Nazism and Adolf Hitler. Among the interpreters, Scarlett Johansson.This victory launches the film at the 2020 Oscar race. In fact, the film that is chosen and awarded by the Canadian public in Toronto, over the last decade has always predicted at least one nomination for best film at the Academy Awards. The most recent cases are The King's Speech, The Positive Side, The La Land, The Room, The Imitation Game, Three Posters in Ebbing Missouri and Green Book.
The plot of "Jojo Rabbit", for now released only in the States, sees a 10-year-old boy growing up in Nazi Germany of the Second World War. Jojo has an imaginary friend who is Adolf Hitler, played by the same Waititi director. But Jojo's life changes completely when he finds out that his mother Rosie (played by Scarlett Johansson) hides a Jewish girl in the attic. His imaginary friend Hitler will help him face his doubts about National Socialist teachings.
"Jojo Rabbit" was chosen by the audience before Noah Baumbach's "Storia di un matrimonio" and "Parasite" by Bong Joon-ho, director already winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The Waititi film will arrive in Italy on January 23, 2020. The time to enjoy it before the ninety-second edition of the Oscars, which will be staged on February 9th at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, in Los Angeles, California.