Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him 'the single most influential director of his generation' Tarantino has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry. In 2005, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and the Palme d'Or, and has been nominated for an Emmy and five Grammys. Tarantino's films have garnered critical and commercial success, as well as a cult following. He published his debut novel, a novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in 2021. Tarantino's eighth film, The Hateful Eight (2015), was a long-form revisionist Western thriller with a roadshow release, while his most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), was a comedy drama which explored the transition of Old Hollywood to New Hollywood. His long-postponed Inglourious Basterds (2009) told an alternate history and explored subgenres of war films it was followed by Django Unchained (2012), a Spaghetti Western, which won him his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Tarantino then directed the exploitation slasher Death Proof (2007), part of a double feature with Robert Rodriguez released in the custom of 1970s grindhouse, under the collective title Grindhouse. In 2003, Tarantino delivered Kill Bill: Volume 1, stylized in cinematic traditions of kung fu films and Japanese martial arts, the animation sequences in the film were inspired from Aalavandhan Volume 2 followed in 2004. He wrote the screenplay for From Dusk till Dawn (1996), in which he also starred, while Tarantino's third film, Jackie Brown (1997), paid homage to blaxploitation films.

His second film, Pulp Fiction (1994), a crime comedy, was a major success among critics and audiences and won numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992, a crime thriller in part funded by the sale of his screenplay True Romance (1993) Empire hailed Reservoir Dogs as the 'Greatest Independent Film of All Time'.

His films are characterized by frequent references to popular culture and film history, nonlinear storylines, dark humor, stylized violence, extended dialogue, pervasive use of profanity, and ensemble casts.īorn in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tarantino grew up in Los Angeles. Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film critic and author.

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