Quentin Tarantino

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 include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (Vol. 1, 2003; Vol. 2, 2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009).
His films have earned him Academy, 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.
==Filming career==
Tarantino was first discovered by Harvey Keitel in a local BlockBuster that Quentin was working at, when he was him walk in he asked him to read his script "Reservoir Dogs", and so began the legacy of Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino has had a number of collaborations with director Robert Rodriguez. Tarantino's screenplay True Romance was optioned and eventually released in 1993. The second script that Tarantino sold was Natural Born Killers, which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone. Tarantino was given story credit, and wished the film well. Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino was approached by Hollywood and offered numerous projects, including Men in Black and others. He instead retreated to Amsterdam to work on his script for Pulp Fiction. After Pulp Fiction he directed episode four of Four Rooms, "The Man from Hollywood", a tribute to the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode that starred Steve McQueen. Four Rooms was a collaborative effort with filmmakers Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, and Robert Rodriguez. Tarantino is also believed to be the director of the wraparound segments. The film was very poorly received by critics and audiences. He appeared in and wrote the script for Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn, which saw mixed reviews from the critics yet led to two sequels, for which Tarantino and Rodriguez would only serve as executive producers.
Tarantino's third feature film was Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of Rum Punch, a novel by Elmore Leonard. An homage to blaxploitation films, it starred Pam Grier, who starred in many of that genre's films of the 1970s. He had then planned to make the war film provisionally titled Inglorious Bastards, but postponed it to write and direct Kill Bill (released as two films, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2), a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Wuxia (Chinese martial arts), Jidaigeki (Japanese period cinema), Spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror or giallo. It was based on a character (The Bride) and a plot that he and Kill Bill's lead actress, Uma Thurman, had developed during the making of Pulp Fiction. In 2004, Tarantino returned to Cannes where he served as President of the Jury. Kill Bill was not in competition, Kill Bill Vol. 2 had an evening screening, while it was also shown on the morning of the final day in its original 3-hour-plus version with Quentin himself attending the full screening. Tarantino then went on to be credited as "Special Guest Director" for his work directing the car sequence between Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro of Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City.
The next film project was Grindhouse, which he co-directed with Rodriguez. Released in theaters on April 6, 2007, Tarantino's contribution to the Grindhouse project was titled Death Proof. It began as a take on 1970s slasher films, but evolved dramatically as the project unfolded. Ticket sales were low despite mostly positive reviews.
Among his current producing credits are the horror flick Hostel (which included numerous references to his own Pulp Fiction), the adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot (for which Tarantino was credited as an executive producer but with the movie set for release in 2009 he is no longer associated with the project) and Hell Ride (written and directed by Larry Bishop, who appeared in "Kill Bill Vol. 2").
Tarantino said, "When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films."
Tarantino's summer 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt, was the story of a group of guerrilla U.S. soldiers in Nazi occupied France during World War II. Filming began in October 2008. The film opened Friday, August 21, 2009 to very positive reviews and the #1 spot at the box office worldwide. It went on to become Tarantino's highest grossing film, both in the United States and worldwide.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Role(s) 	Appearances
 	 	 	
1987 	My Best Friend's Birthday 	Co-Writer, director, producer 	Portrayed Clarence Pool
1992 	Reservoir Dogs 	Writer, director 	Portrayed Mr. Brown
1994 	Pulp Fiction 	Co-Writer, director 	Portrayed Jimmie Dimmick
1996 	From Dusk Till Dawn 	Writer 	Portrayed Richard Gecko
1997 	Jackie Brown 	Writer, director 	Cameo: Answering Machine voice
2003/04	Kill Bill, Vol. 1 & 2 	Writer, director 	Cameo: Crazy 88 Member
2007 	Grindhouse: Death Proof 	Writer, director, producer 	Portrayed Warren the bartenderCameo: Lewis/Rapist #1 (Planet Terror)
2007 	Planet Terror 	Producer, actor: (Lewis/Rapist #1)	
2009 	Inglourious Basterds 	Writer, director 	Cameo: First scalped victim, American GI in Nation's Pride
2012 	Django Unchained 	Writer, Director 	Cameo: LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee
2015 	The Hateful Eight 	Writer, Director 	Cameo: the Narrator
2019 	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Writer, Director 	
TBA 	Untitled Star Trek film 	Writer, Director 	
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