Quentin Tarantino

15 films directed 25 Awards 4 Nominations

Biography

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His films have earned him a variety of Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Palme d'Or Awards and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy Awards. In 2007, Total Film named him the 12th-greatest director of all time.

Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh Tarantino Zastoupil, a health care executive and nurse born in Knoxville, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician born in Queens, New York. Tarantino's mother allowed him to quit school at age 17, to attend an acting class full time. Tarantino gave up acting while attending the acting school, saying that he admired directors more than actors. Tarantino also worked in a video rental store before becoming a filmmaker, paid close attention to the types of films people liked to rent, and has cited that experience as inspiration for his directorial career.

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Most directed genres

Recurring actors

Awards and nominations

2020 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
2013 Saturn Awards
2013 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
2013 Lumière Award, Lyon Festival of cinema
2013 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
2013 BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
2013 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
2012 Britannia Awards
2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay Nominated
2011 Honorary César
2004 Officer of Arts and Letters
2003 European Film Award for Best Non-European Film Nominated
1996 Time Machine Award
1995 Film Independent Spirit Awards
1995 Edgar Awards
1995 Golden Globe Awards
1995 David di Donatello for Best International Film
1995 Academy Awards
1995 Academy Award for Best Director Nominated
1995 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated
1994 Palme d'Or
1994 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
1992 Sitges Film Festival Best Director award
— Hungarian Order of Merit
— Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
— National Board of Review Award for Best Film
— American Choreography Awards
— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
— Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The career in numbers

US$ 539 mi Total budget from 13 film(s) with data
US$ 2.0 bi Total box office from 13 film(s) with data
US$ 41 mi Average budget from 13 film(s) with data
US$ 153 mi Average box office from 13 film(s) with data
7.5 Average rating from 15 film(s) with data
3.7× Return on investment from 13 film(s) with data

Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.

Films directed

Film	Year	Budget	Box office	Rating
The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge	2025	—	—	6.2
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood	2019	US$ 95 mi	US$ 394 mi	7.4
The Hateful Eight	2015	US$ 44 mi	US$ 156 mi	7.8
Django Unchained	2012	US$ 100 mi	US$ 425 mi	8.2
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair	2011	US$ 60 mi	US$ 12 mi	8.1
Inglourious Basterds	2009	US$ 70 mi	US$ 321 mi	8.2
Death Proof	2007	US$ 25 mi	US$ 31 mi	6.8
Grindhouse	2007	US$ 60 mi	US$ 25 mi	7.0
Kill Bill: Vol. 2	2004	US$ 30 mi	US$ 152 mi	7.9
Kill Bill: Vol. 1	2003	US$ 30 mi	US$ 181 mi	8.0
Jackie Brown	1997	US$ 12 mi	US$ 75 mi	7.4
Four Rooms	1995	US$ 4 mi	US$ 4 mi	5.9
Pulp Fiction	1994	US$ 8 mi	US$ 214 mi	8.5
Reservoir Dogs	1992	US$ 1 mi	US$ 3 mi	8.1
Reservoir Dogs	1991	—	—	7.5

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