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Taika Waititi has a long relationship with Disney and its studios. He directed a pair of Thor<\/em> movies for Marvel Studios, won an adapted screenplay Oscar for Searchlight\u2019s Jojo Rabbit<\/em>, and voiced a droid in The Mandalorian<\/em>, in addition to directing on the Disney+ Star Wars<\/em> series. Now, he has added another line to that resume: directing the company\u2019s annual holiday short.<\/p>\n The short, called Best Christmas Ever<\/em>, bowed this week and is nearing 14 million views on YouTube. It centers on a young girl whose doodle comes to life after Santa Claus mistakes her drawing for a Christmas wish. John Goodman, whose voice work for Disney include titles such as Monsters, Inc.<\/em> and The Princess and the Frog<\/em>, voices the doodle.<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWhat makes this story uniquely Disney is the fact that it\u2019s set in the world of a kid. It\u2019s a kid and her new best friend, navigating the complex world together, and doing it just with the power of friendship and imagination,\u201d said Waititi, whose upcoming credits include a Sony 3000 adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s novel Klara and the Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n Disney invited audiences to send in their own doodles, which were displayed Wednesday on the Time\u2019s Square Billboard to help promote the company\u2019s Christmas theme, which this year is Make Someone\u2019s Holiday Magic.<\/p>\n Watch the short below.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taika Waititi has a long relationship with Disney and its studios. He directed a pair of Thor movies for Marvel Studios, won an adapted screenplay Oscar for Searchlight\u2019s Jojo Rabbit, and voiced a droid in The Mandalorian, in addition to directing on the Disney+ Star Wars series. Now, he has added another line to that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2155318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[23301,307260,315758,412655,354361,328884],"class_list":["post-2155317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-disney","tag-john-goodman","tag-marvel-studios","tag-screenplay-oscar","tag-star-wars-series","tag-taika-waititi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Taika-Waititi-Was-Behind-This-Years-Disney-Holiday-Short.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155319,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155317\/revisions\/2155319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2155318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}