Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American filmmaker, cinematographer, film editor and actor. His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts and references to popular culture. Tarantino’s films have garnered both critical and commercial success as well as a dedicated cult-following. He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and the Palme d’Or. In December 2015, Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry.
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Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American filmmaker, cinematographer, film editor and actor. His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films. Tarantino’s films have garnered both critical and commercial success as well as a dedicated cult-following. He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and the Palme d’Or. In 2005, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In December 2015, Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry. He was born on March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the only child of Connie Pender and Tony Tarantino, an actor and producer. His father is of Italian descent, and his mother has Irish ancestry. He is named for Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds’ character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. His mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles, where Tony was a law student and would-be entertainer. She married him soon after, to gain independence from her parents, but their marriage was brief. After his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1973, and received a misdiagnosis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Quentin Tarantino was sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee. At 14 years old, he wrote one of his earliest works, a screenplay called Peachfuzzit, based on Hal Needham’s 1977 film Smokey and The Bandit.
He then worked as an usher at an adult movie theater in Torrance, Los Angeles. Later, he attended acting classes at the Best Theatre Company, where he met James Craig. While there, he met several of his eventual collaborators at Best Two Plus Two, including James Best, who would go on to become his co-star in Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Volume 2. His ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, recounts an alternate history of events surrounding the Tate–LaBianca murders. In 2003, he delivered Kill Bill Volume 1, a highly stylized revenge flick in the cinematic traditions of kung fu films and Japanese martial arts; Volume 2 followed in 2004. His eighth film, The Hateful Eight, was a long-form Western initially screened in a 70 mm roadshow theatrical release. He also wrote the screenplay for the horror comedy film From Dusk till Dawn, in which he also starred. In 2006, he directed the exploitation slasher film Death Proof, part of a double feature with Robert Rodriguez released in the tradition of 1970s grindhouse cinema, under the collective title Grindhouse. He followed that with another critical success, Django Unchained, a Spaghetti Western set in the Antebellum South. In 2008, he released Inglourious Basterds, a long, post-apocalyptic Western set during World War II.
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