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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American filmmaker, actor, and author. His films are characterized by graphic violence, extended dialogue often featuring much profanity, and references to popular culture. His work has earned a cult following alongside critical and commercial success, and he has been named by some as the most influential director of his generation. Tarantino has received numerous ac…
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entertainment · American filmmaker (born 1963) · actor · screenwriter · film director · film producer · film actor · writer · film editor · television actor · director · film screenwriter · also Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino
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2026· 8 entries
The Guardian: Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl
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The Guardian: ‘I’d rather read a book’: Tarantino criticises ‘flavourless sausage factory’ Hollywood
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The Guardian: Hegseth channels his inner Tarantino with fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction
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The Guardian: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘swashbuckling’ play The Popinjay Cavalier set for West End premiere
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The Guardian: ‘Lack of class’: Quentin Tarantino hits back at Rosanna Arquette over Pulp Fiction N-word criticism
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The Guardian: Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantino’s use of N-word in Pulp Fiction is ‘racist and creepy’
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In preparation for his first West End play
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2025· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A picture authentically shows film director Quentin Tarantino glaring at actor Paul Dano during a red-carpet event.” Fake.
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2022· 1 entry
Their second child, a daughter, was also born in Israel
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2021· 2 entries
“s standalone sequel, The Adventures of Cliff Booth (2026), which he chose not to direct, instead handing the film to David Fincher. He has tentative plans for his tenth film to be his last before retiring from filmmaking. Early life Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the only child of Connie McHugh and aspiring actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before his son”
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Tarantino announced that he had also purchased the Vista Theatre in Los Angeles, stating that he intends to keep it a first-run theatre, and that like The New Beverly it will only show movies on film
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2020· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2020).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2020).
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Tarantino signed a two-book deal with HarperCollins
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2019· 1 entry
During the Cannes Film Festival, at the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood press conference, a journalist asked why Margot Robbie had so few lines in the film
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2018· 4 entries
In a Reform Jewish ceremony in their Beverly Hills Home
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In an interview with The New York Times, Kill Bill actress Uma Thurman said Weinstein had sexually assaulted her, and that she had reported this to Tarantino
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“What I did was marginalize the incidents. I knew enough to do more than I did.”
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And drew criticism, including from Geimer, who stated in an interview, "He was wrong
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2017· 2 entries
Tarantino gave an interview discussing sexual harassment and assault allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein
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Tarantino became engaged to Israeli singer Daniella Pick, daughter of musician Zvika Pick
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2015· 2 entries
As a roadshow presentation in 70 mm film-format theaters, before being released in digital theaters on December 30, 2015
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Tarantino said that Barack Obama is his favorite president and voiced support for the Black Lives Matter movement
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2014· 3 entries
Tarantino directed a live reading of the leaked script at the United Artists Theater in the Ace Hotel Los Angeles for the Live Read series
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It was revealed that the film would be titled The Hateful Eight
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Tarantino took a more active role in programming film screenings at the New Beverly, showing his own films as well as prints from his personal collection
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2013· 8 entries
Awarded Saturn Awards (2013).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Django Unchained (2013).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for Django Unchained (2013).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for Django Unchained (2013).
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Awarded Lumière Award, Lyon Festival of cinema (2013).
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2013).
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A survey of seventeen academics was carried out to discover which filmmakers had been referenced the most in essays and dissertations on film that had been marked in the previous five years
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During an interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on Channel 4 News while promoting Django Unchained in the UK, Tarantino reacted angrily when he was questioned about whether there was a link between movie violence and real-
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Britannia Awards (2012).
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2011· 4 entries
Awarded Honorary César (2011).
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Tarantino was given an Honorary César by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma
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Production began on Django Unchained, a film about the revenge of a former slave in the Southern United States in 1858
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Was recognized at the 16th Critics' Choice Awards with the inaugural Music+Film Award
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2010· 1 entry
Was described by Tarantino in 2007 as "hands down my number one collaborator"
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2009· 4 entries
When Tarantino was in Israel to promote Inglourious Basterds
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Tarantino said that he planned to retire from filmmaking when he is 60 to focus on writing novels and film literature
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Tarantino was set to appear on the talk show Late Show with David Letterman to promote Inglourious Basterds
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Is the story of a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers in Nazi-occupied France in an alternate history of World War II
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2008· 1 entry
Produced the Larry Bishop-helmed Hell Ride, a revenge biker film
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2007· 1 entry
Tarantino directed the exploitation slasher film Death Proof
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2006· 1 entry
Another "Quentin Tarantino presents" production, Hostel, opened at number-one at the box office with a $20
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2005· 2 entries
Was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world
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Tarantino was awarded the honorary Icon of the Decade at the 10th Empire Awards
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2004· 4 entries
Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (2004).
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Career landmark: President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival (2004–2004).
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Tarantino attended the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where he served as president of the jury
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Brought the Chinese martial arts film Hero to the US
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2003· 1 entry
“I've got so many movies I would like to make. I've got my western, my World War II bunch of guys on a mission, my spaghetti western, my horror film. But since I know I won't live long enough to do all the movies I want to do, with every movie the goal is to wipe out as many as I can.”
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2001· 1 entry
Produced the US release of the Hong Kong martial arts film Iron Monkey, which made over $14 million worldwide
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1998· 1 entry
Tarantino made his major Broadway stage debut as an amoral psycho killer in a revival of the 1966 play Wait Until Dark, which received unfavorable reviews for his performance from critics
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1997· 2 entries
During the Oscars ceremony, Tarantino was accompanying Mira Sorvino when the then-MTV News host, Chris Connelly, called over to Sorvino from the media scrum
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Spike Lee questioned Tarantino's use of racial slurs in his films, particularly the use of “nigger”, most notably in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded Time Machine Award (1996).
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Re-teaming with Tarantino in another acting role, alongside Harvey Keitel, George Clooney and Juliette Lewis
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Starred in Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, a simulation video game that uses pre-generated film clips
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1995· 8 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards (1995).
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Awarded Film Independent Spirit Awards (1995).
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Awarded David di Donatello for Best International Film (1995).
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Awarded Academy Awards (1995).
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Awarded Edgar Awards (1995).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Pulp Fiction (1995).
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Tarantino formed Rolling Thunder Pictures with Miramax to release or re-release several independent and foreign features
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Tarantino participated in the anthology film Four Rooms, a collaboration that also included directors Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders and Alexandre Rockwell
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1994· 6 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for Pulp Fiction (1994).
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Awarded Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director for Pulp Fiction (1994).
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Awarded Palme d'Or for Pulp Fiction (1994).
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Maintaining the graphic depiction of violence from his earlier film as well as the non-linear storylines
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Tarantino had an on-set feud with Denzel Washington during the filming of Crimson Tide over what was described as "Tarantino's racist dialogue added to the script"
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Released album “Truth and Fiction”.
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1993· 1 entry
Tarantino sold his script for Natural Born Killers, which was rewritten, giving him only a story credit
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Sitges Film Festival Best Director award for Reservoir Dogs (1992).
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1987· 1 entry
Tarantino co-wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday (1987)
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1986· 2 entries
“When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them,”
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Tarantino was employed in his first Hollywood job, working with Video Archives colleague Roger Avary, as production assistants on Dolph Lundgren's exercise video, Maximum Potential
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1977· 2 entries
Chose not to direct it; instead he handed the project to David Fincher, whom he calls "one of the two best directors" alongside himself
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And centered on a man who wrote movie reviews for a porn magazine
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1973· 1 entry
And received a misdiagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma, Tarantino was again sent to live with his grandparents in Knoxville
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1963· 2 entries
Born 1963-03-27.
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In Knoxville, Tennessee, the only child of Connie McHugh and aspiring actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before his son's birth
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