Quentin Tarantino filmography

A photograph of Quentin Tarantino, speaking to the press.
Tarantino at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International

Quentin Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer who has directed ten films.[a] He first began his career in the 1980s by directing and writing Love Birds In Bondage[1] and writing, directing and starring in the black-and-white My Best Friend's Birthday, a partially lost amateur short film which was never officially released. He impersonated musician Elvis Presley in a small role in the sitcom The Golden Girls (1988), and briefly appeared in Eddie Presley (1992). As an independent filmmaker, he directed, wrote, and appeared in the violent crime thriller Reservoir Dogs (1992), which tells the story of six strangers brought together for a jewelry heist. Proving to be Tarantino's breakthrough film, it was named the greatest independent film of all time by Empire.[2][3] Tarantino's screenplay for Tony Scott's True Romance (1993) was nominated for a Saturn Award.[4] Also in 1993, he served as an executive producer for Killing Zoe and wrote two other films.

In 1994, Tarantino wrote and directed the neo-noir black comedy Pulp Fiction, a major critical and commercial success. Cited in the media as a defining film of modern Hollywood, the film earned Tarantino an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Best Director nomination.[5] The following year, Tarantino directed The Man from Hollywood, one of the four segments of the anthology film Four Rooms, and an episode of ER, entitled "Motherhood". He wrote Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn (1996)—one of the many collaborations between them—which attained cult status and spawned several sequels,[6] in which they served as executive producers. Tarantino's next directorial ventures Jackie Brown (1997) and Kill Bill (2003–2004) were met with critical acclaim.[7][8] The latter, a two-part martial arts film (Volume 1 and Volume 2), follows a former assassin seeking revenge on her ex-colleagues who attempted to kill her.[9]

Tarantino's direction of "Grave Danger", a CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode, garnered him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series nomination.[10] He directed a scene in Frank Miller and Rodriguez's Sin City (2005). Tarantino and Rodriguez later collaborated in the double feature Grindhouse (2007); Tarantino directed the segment Death Proof. He next penned and directed the war film Inglourious Basterds (2009), a fictionalized account of the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. The critically and commercially successful film earned Tarantino two nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards—Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.[11][12] His greatest commercial success came with the 2012 Western film Django Unchained, which is about a slave revolt in the Antebellum South. Earning $425.4 million worldwide, it won him another Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.[13][14] Tarantino then wrote and directed another commercially successful Western film, The Hateful Eight (2015),[15] whose screenplay was nominated for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award.[16][17] He wrote the 2019 drama Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which follows a fading actor and his stunt double as they navigate 1969 Hollywood. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.[18]


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  1. ^ Rife, Katherine (October 1, 2012). If You Like Quentin Tarantino...: Here Are Over 200 Films, TV Shows, and Other Oddities That You Will Love. Limelight Editions. p. 14. ISBN 9780879103996. Archived from the original on March 12, 2022. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Frost, Caroline (March 7, 2013). "Tim Roth: 'That Interviewer Came Out Looking Shabby, Not Quentin'". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on August 9, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  3. ^ Dirks, Tim. "Empire's 50 Greatest Independent Films". Empire. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  4. ^ "The Envelope: Hollywood's Awards and Industry Insider". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 17, 2006. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  5. ^ Seal, Mark. "The Making of Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino's and the Cast's Retelling". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on December 20, 2019. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  6. ^ Pedersen, Erik (June 7, 2016). "'From Dusk Till Dawn' Lures Nicky Whelan & Maurice Compte For Season 3". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  7. ^ "Jackie Brown". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on March 10, 2010. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  8. ^ "Quentin Tarantino teases possibility of Kill Bill 3". News.com.au. December 7, 2015. Archived from the original on September 17, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Kill Bill 2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Richmond, Ray (July 26, 2005). "Tarantino looks to add an Emmy to his Oscar". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  11. ^ Child, Ben (February 17, 2010). "How Inglourious Basterds freed Quentin Tarantino". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 10, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  12. ^ Smith, Nigel M. (December 9, 2015). "Quentin Tarantino: 'I don't know if I will ever win a best director award'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 14, 2016. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  13. ^ "Quentin Tarantino". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on August 30, 2019. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  14. ^ Goodacre, Kate (February 25, 2013). "Oscars 2013: 'Argo', Adele, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway triumph". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  15. ^ "The Hateful Eight (2015)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  16. ^ Gray, Tim (January 8, 2016). "Baftas 2016: full list of nominations". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  17. ^ Lang, Brent (December 10, 2015). "'Carol,' Netflix Lead Golden Globes Nomination". Variety. Archived from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  18. ^ "Oscars: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. February 9, 2020. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved February 28, 2023.