# Quentin Tarantino filmography

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Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Death Proof
Inglourious Basterds
Django Unchained
The Hateful Eight
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Television
"Motherhood"
"Grave Danger"
Bibliography
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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New Beverly Cinema
Vista Theatre
Songs
Scooby Snacks
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Quentin Tarantino is an American filmmaker, actor and author who has made ten films. He first began his career in the 1980s by directing and writing Love Birds In Bondage and writing, directing and starring in the black-and-white My Best Friend's Birthday, an 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. Tarantino's screenplay for Tony Scott's True Romance (1993) was nominated for a Saturn Award. 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. 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, 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. 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.
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. 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. His greatest commercial success came with the 2012 Western film Django Unchained, which is about a slave revolt in the Antebellum South. Earning $426.1 million worldwide, it won him another Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Tarantino then wrote and directed another commercially successful Western film, The Hateful Eight (2015), whose screenplay was nominated for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. 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.

## Film

| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
| 1992 | Reservoir Dogs | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Yes | Yes | No | Story co-written with Roger Avary |
| 1997 | Jackie Brown | Yes | Yes | No | Adapted from the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard |
| 2003 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2004 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2007 | Death Proof | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also cinematographer |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2012 | Django Unchained | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Yes | Yes | Yes | |

### Short films

| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
| 1986 | Love Birds In Bondage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unfinished short film Also editor and co-directed with Scott Magill |
| 1987 | My Best Friend's Birthday | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unfinished feature film Also editor and screenplay co-written with Craig Hamann |
| 1995 | The Man from Hollywood | Yes | Yes | Executive | Segment from Four Rooms |
| 2005 | The Big Fat Kill | Guest | No | No | Segment from Sin City Directed scene of Dwight driving to the tar pits |

### Writer and/or producer only

| Year | Title | Writer | Producer | Notes |
| 1991 | Past Midnight | Uncredited | Associate | Rewrite |
| 1993 | Iron Monkey | No | Yes | |
| 1993 | True Romance | Yes | No | |
| 1994 | It's Pat | Uncredited | No | Rewrite |
| 1994 | Natural Born Killers | Story | No | Screenplay rewritten by Oliver Stone, David Veloz, and Richard Rutowski |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | Uncredited | No | Rewrite |
| 1996 | From Dusk till Dawn | Yes | Executive | Story written by Robert Kurtzman |
| 1996 | The Rock | Uncredited | No | Rewrite |
| 2007 | Planet Terror | No | Yes | |

### Executive producer only

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1993 | Killing Zoe | |
| 1996 | Curdled | |
| 1998 | God Said Ha! | |
| 1999 | From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money | Direct-to-video |
| 1999 | From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter | Direct-to-video |
| 2002 | Hero | |
| 2004 | My Name Is Modesty | Direct-to-video |
| 2005 | The Protector | |
| 2005 | Hostel | |
| 2005 | Daltry Calhoun | |
| 2006 | Freedom's Fury | Documentary film |
| 2007 | Hostel: Part II | |
| 2008 | Hell Ride | |

### Acting roles and documentary appearances

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1986 | Love Birds in Bondage | Mickey | Short film |
| 1987 | My Best Friend's Birthday | Clarence Poole | |
| 1992 | Reservoir Dogs | Mr. Brown | |
| 1992 | Eddie Presley | Asylum attendant | Cameo |
| 1994 | The Coriolis Effect | Panhandle Slim | Short film, voice cameo |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Jimmie Dimmick | |
| 1994 | Somebody to Love | Bartender | Cameo |
| 1994 | Sleep with Me | Sid | Cameo |
| 1995 | Destiny Turns on the Radio | Johnny Destiny | |
| 1995 | Desperado | Pick-up guy | |
| 1995 | Dance Me to the End of Love | Groom | Short film |
| 1995 | Four Rooms | Chester Rush | Segment: "The Man from Hollywood" |
| 1996 | From Dusk till Dawn | Richie Gecko | |
| 1996 | Girl 6 | Director #1 – NY | Cameo |
| 1997 | Jackie Brown | Answering Machine | Uncredited voice cameo |
| 1998 | God Said Ha! | Himself | |
| 2000 | Little Nicky | Deacon | Cameo |
| 2003 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Crazy 88 member | Uncredited extra |
| 2004 | Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2005 | The Muppets' Wizard of Oz | Himself | Television film, cameo |
| 2007 | Death Proof | Warren the Bartender | |
| 2007 | Planet Terror | Rapist #1 / Zombie eating road kill | Cameos |
| 2007 | Sukiyaki Western Django | Piringo | |
| 2007 | Diary of the Dead | Newsreader | Voice cameo |
| 2008 | Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | First scalped Nazi / American GI | Uncredited cameos |
| 2011 | POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2012 | Django Unchained | Robert (Bag Head #1) / Frankie | Cameos |
| 2014 | She's Funny That Way | Himself | Cameo |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight | Narrator | Uncredited voice cameo |
| 2018 | Friedkin Uncut | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2018 | What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2018 | The Great Buster: A Celebration | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Red Apple Cigarettes commercial director | Uncredited voice cameo |
| 2019 | QT8: The First Eight | Himself (archival footage) | Documentary film |
| 2020 | Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2021 | Django & Django | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2021 | Ennio | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2022 | Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America | Himself | Documentary film |
| 2023 | Sly | Himself | Documentary film |

## Television

| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
| 1995 | ER | Yes | No | No | Episode: "Motherhood" |
| 2004 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Yes | No | No | Episode: "Season 3, Episode 75" |
| 2005 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Yes | Story | No | Episode: "Grave Danger" |
| 2014–2016 | From Dusk till Dawn: The Series | No | Based on | No | Based on From Dusk till Dawn, 30 episodes |
| 2015–2016 | #15SecondScare | No | No | Executive | 14 episodes |
| 2019 | The Hateful Eight: Extended Version | Yes | Yes | No | 4 episodes |

### Acting roles

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1988 | The Golden Girls | Elvis Presley impersonator | Episode: "Sophia's Wedding: Part 1" |
| 1995 | All-American Girl | Desmond Winocki | Episode: "Pulp Sitcom" |
| 1995 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | Episode: "Quentin Tarantino / The Smashing Pumpkins" |
| 2002, 2004 | Alias | McKenas Cole | Episodes: "The Box (Part 1)", "The Box (Part 2)", "Full Disclosure", and "After Six" |
| 2005 | Duck Dodgers | Master Moloch (voice) | Episode: "Master & Disaster" |
| 2019 | The Hateful Eight: Extended Version | Narrator (voice) | 4 episodes |
| 2022 | Super Pumped | Narrator (voice) | 7 episodes |

## Reception

| Year | Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Budget | Box office |
| 1992 | Reservoir Dogs | 90% (81 reviews) | 81% (24 reviews) | $1.2 million | $2,931,191 |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | 92% (184 reviews) | 95% (27 reviews) | $8.5 million | $213,928,762 |
| 1997 | Jackie Brown | 87% (95 reviews) | 62% (23 reviews) | $12 million | $39,693,845 |
| 2003 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | 85% (236 reviews) | 69% (43 reviews) | $30 million | $180,899,045 |
| 2004 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | 84% (246 reviews) | 83% (41 reviews) | $30 million | $154,116,796 |
| 2007 | Death Proof | 65% (43 reviews) | 77% (36 reviews) | $30 million | $31,126,421 |
| 2009 | Inglorious Basterds | 89% (333 reviews) | 69% (36 reviews) | $70 million | $321,455,689 |
| 2012 | Django Unchained | 87% (296 reviews) | 81% (42 reviews) | $100 million | $426,076,293 |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight | 74% (333 reviews) | 68% (51 reviews) | $62 million | $161,217,616 |
| 2019 | Once Upon A Time In Hollywood | 86% (580 reviews) | 84% (62 reviews) | $96 million | $392,105,159 |

## Video games

* 1996: Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair as Jack Cavello
* 2001: From Dusk Till Dawn (Based on the film of the same name written by Tarantino)
* 2006: Reservoir Dogs (Based on the film of the same name written and directed by Tarantino)

## Broadway

* 1998: Wait Until Dark as Harry Roat Jr.
* TBA: "Untitled stage play" as writer