In October 2018, Lucasfilm announced that Waititi would be one of the directors of the "Star Wars" live-action streaming series "The Mandalorian", which tells the story of a lone Mandalorian gunfighter in the period between the events of "Return of the Jedi" and "The Force Awakens". The series premiered on 12 November 2019; Waititi also voices a droid bounty hunter named IG-11 in the series. He directed the first season finale episode of "The Mandalorian", "". His voiceover work on the series earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance in 2020. In 2020, Waititi narrated a charity reading of "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl. In 2021, he won the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media as a producer of the "Jojo Rabbit" soundtrack.