---
name: "Quentin Tarantino"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/quentin-tarantino"
fi1m_id: "quentin-tarantino"
imdb_id: "nm0000233"
tmdb_id: 138
wikidata_id: "Q3772"
roles: ["Writer","Director","Producer"]
born: "27 March 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 17
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-21T04:27:13.304632+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Quentin Tarantino

## Identity

Quentin Tarantino

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/quentin-tarantino
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** quentin-tarantino
- **IMDb ID:** nm0000233
- **TMDB ID:** 138
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3772
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3772, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/138

Writer and director. Born 27 March 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director, Producer
- **Born:** 27 March 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- **Active:** 1992–present
- **Also known as:** Quentin Jerome Tarantino
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 17: 1 acting, 11 directing, 2 writing, 1 producing, 1 crew, 1 other
- **Frequently works with:** [Lawrence Bender](https://film.one/person/lawrence-bender.md), [Samuel L. Jackson](https://film.one/person/samuel-l-jackson.md), [Brad Pitt](https://film.one/person/brad-pitt.md), [Robert Rodriguez](https://film.one/person/robert-rodriguez.md), [Shannon McIntosh](https://film.one/person/shannon-mcintosh.md), [Stacey Sher](https://film.one/person/stacey-sher.md), [Uma Thurman](https://film.one/person/uma-thurman.md), [Christoph Waltz](https://film.one/person/christoph-waltz.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 3 Oscars (3 won · 5 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (7), 2000s 76 (6), 2010s 76 (4)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3772, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/138

## Coming up

- *THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH* (2026-11-25), Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-further-mis-adventures-of-cliff-booth.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Kill Bill: Vol. 2*](https://film.one/film/kill-bill-vol-2.md) (77), [*From Dusk Till Dawn*](https://film.one/film/from-dusk-till-dawn.md) (75), [*Kill Bill: Vol. 1*](https://film.one/film/kill-bill-vol-1.md) (72), [*The Hateful Eight*](https://film.one/film/the-hateful-eight.md) (68), [*Death Proof*](https://film.one/film/death-proof.md) (64)
- **Disney+:** [*Inglourious Basterds*](https://film.one/film/inglourious-basterds.md) (92), [*ER*](https://film.one/tv/er.md) (88)
- **Apple TV:** [*Pulp Fiction*](https://film.one/film/pulp-fiction.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*True Romance*](https://film.one/film/true-romance.md) (82)
- **AMC+:** [*Django Unchained*](https://film.one/film/django-unchained.md) (78)
- **Hulu:** [*Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood*](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Quentin Tarantino

> Tarantino writes people sitting at tables, talking until somebody reaches for a gun, and at his best the talk is the action. Every film since *Reservoir Dogs* has been worth an evening; nearly every one has been half an hour too long.

A colonel sits at a farmhouse kitchen table, is offered wine, and asks for milk. He drinks it with perfect manners while the camera drifts down through the floorboards to the family hiding underneath. Nobody has raised a voice. That opening of *Inglourious Basterds* (2009) is the scene Quentin Tarantino has been writing since 1992: a room, a table, somebody lying, and a gun not yet out. Eight men arguing about tipping in *Reservoir Dogs* (1992). Two hitmen on what a hamburger is called in Paris in *Pulp Fiction* (1994).

The talk is the action, and when it is not, the film is in trouble. *Reservoir Dogs* had one warehouse and no room to indulge himself, and is better for it. *Pulp Fiction* has the sharpest talk of any crime film of its decade. *Jackie Brown* (1997), from Elmore Leonard, is the one where he stopped showing off and let Pam Grier and Robert Forster sit still. After that the speeches grew. The *Kill Bill* films (2003 and 2004) are set pieces with dialogue between them; *Death Proof* (2007) has his cadence without his purpose. Then the rewrites of history, up to *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019): each a good film, each too long, each with a last act that carries on after the story has ended.

Sally Menke cut eight of his films and knew when a scene was over; since her death Fred Raskin has let them run past the point where she would have closed them, and the middle of *Django Unchained* (2012) and of *The Hateful Eight* (2015) sags. Then there is Tarantino himself, who keeps casting himself and is the weakest actor in his own films, and who writes women as things to be looked at and rescued, when he writes them at all. *Reservoir Dogs* has none. Kerry Washington's Broomhilda is the reason for everything in *Django* and is barely allowed to speak.

What goes right is the people he gives his sentences to. Samuel L. Jackson has made six films with him, and Ordell in *Jackie Brown* is the model, most dangerous when he sounds most reasonable. Robert Richardson shot the Budd chapter of *Kill Bill: Vol. 2* almost entirely in the dark, by torch and match, and it is the most frightening thing Tarantino has put on screen without a drop of blood. We laughed at the foot massage argument in *Pulp Fiction* for a full minute, then Vincent and Jules knocked on the door, we remembered what they had come to do, and we stopped.

He has said he will stop after a tenth feature. *True Romance* (1993), the script he gave to Tony Scott, is among the pieces of his we like best, and it was not his to cut. One more, then. We would take it at two hours.

## Biography

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Born on 27 March 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, he began his career as an independent filmmaker in the early 1990s.

His early features include *Reservoir Dogs* (1992) and *Pulp Fiction* (1994). He later directed and wrote *Jackie Brown* (1997), the *Kill Bill* films (2003–2004), *Inglourious Basterds* (2009), *Django Unchained* (2012), *The Hateful Eight* (2015) and *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019). He has also produced several of his projects, including *Death Proof* (2007).

Tarantino has received Academy Awards for screenwriting and has been nominated for directing. He has worked with many of the same collaborators across multiple films.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (17)

### Performed in (1)

- *From Dusk Till Dawn* (1996), Fi1m 75, as Richard Gecko — [page](https://film.one/film/from-dusk-till-dawn.md)

### Directed (11)

- *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019), Fi1m 77, Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.md)
- *The Hateful Eight* (2015), Fi1m 68, as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hateful-eight.md)
- *Django Unchained* (2012), Fi1m 78, as The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee — [page](https://film.one/film/django-unchained.md)
- *Inglourious Basterds* (2009), Fi1m 92, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/inglourious-basterds.md)
- *Death Proof* (2007), Fi1m 64, as Warren — [page](https://film.one/film/death-proof.md)
- *Kill Bill: Vol. 2* (2004), Fi1m 77, Director, Characters, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/kill-bill-vol-2.md)
- *Kill Bill: Vol. 1* (2003), Fi1m 72, Characters, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/kill-bill-vol-1.md)
- *Jackie Brown* (1997), Fi1m 83, as Answering Machine (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/jackie-brown.md)
- *ER* (1994), Fi1m 88, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md)
- *Pulp Fiction* (1994), Fi1m 82, as Jimmie Dimmick — [page](https://film.one/film/pulp-fiction.md)
- *Reservoir Dogs* (1992), Fi1m 86, as Mr. Brown — [page](https://film.one/film/reservoir-dogs.md)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *Natural Born Killers* (1994), Fi1m 64, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/natural-born-killers.md)
- *True Romance* (1993), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/true-romance.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Hero* (2002), Fi1m 77, Presenter, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hero.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Sin City* (2005), Fi1m 75, Special Guest Director — [page](https://film.one/film/sin-city.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Scott Pilgrim vs. the World* (2010), Fi1m 81, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world.md)

## Complete filmography (86)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH* (2026), Producer, Writer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/the-further-mis-adventures-of-cliff-booth.md)
- *Only What We Carry* (2026), as John Percy
- *Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern* (2026), Actor
- *One Spoon of Chocolate* (2026), Executive Producer
- *The Projectionist* (2026), Producer
- *The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge* (2025), as Bill (voice) (uncredited) · Director, Writer
- *Short Cuts : KILL BILL VOL.1* (2025), Original Film Writer
- *Luckless Revanchists* (2025), Producer
- *Thanksgiving* (2023), Thanks — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/thanksgiving.md)
- *Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey* (2022), Actor
- *Thriller—A Cruel Documentary* (2022), Thanks
- *Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber* (2022), series, as Tarantino's Voice (voice)
- *Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber* (2022), as Tarantino (voice)
- *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019), as Red Apple Ad Director (uncredited) (voice) · Producer, Director, Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.md)
- *The Hateful Eight* (2019), series, Narrator, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Baby Driver* (2017), Thanks — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/baby-driver.md)
- *The Hateful Eight* (2015), as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · Screenplay, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hateful-eight.md)
- *#15SecondScare* (2015), series, Executive Producer
- *She's Funny That Way* (2015), as Quentin Tarantino
- *21 Years: Richard Linklater* (2014), Thanks
- *From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series* (2014), series, Original Film Writer
- *Strutter* (2013), Thanks
- *Malaria* (2013), Thanks
- *Django Unchained* (2012), as The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee · Writer, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/django-unchained.md)
- *The Man with the Iron Fists* (2012), Producer
- *Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair* (2011), Director, Writer, Characters
- *The Legend Still Lives: 30 Years of Madman* (2010), Thanks
- *Scott Pilgrim vs. the World* (2010), Thanks — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world.md)
- *Stolz der Nation* (2009), Producer
- *Inglourious Basterds* (2009), as First Scalped Nazi / American Soldier in 'Pride of Nation' (uncredited) · Writer, Director — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/inglourious-basterds.md)
- *Hell Ride* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Red Princess Blues Animated: The Book of Violence* (2007), Thanks
- *Sukiyaki Western Django* (2007), as Ringo · Executive Producer
- *Hostel: Part II* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Diary of the Dead* (2007), as Newsreader (voice) (uncredited) · Thanks
- *Death Proof* (2007), as Warren · Screenplay, Director of Photography, Producer, Director — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/death-proof.md)
- *Planet Terror* (2007), as Rapist #1 · Producer
- *Grindhouse* (2007), as Warren (segment "Death Proof") / Rapist #1 (segment "Planet Terror") · Director, Presenter, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
- *Freedom's Fury* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Hostel* (2006), Executive Producer, Presenter
- *Daltry Calhoun* (2005), Executive Producer
- *The Protector* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Reservoir Dogs Revisited* (2005), as (archive)
- *Sin City* (2005), Special Guest Director — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/sin-city.md)
- *My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure* (2004), Executive Producer
- *Kill Bill: Vol. 2* (2004), as Director's voice (uncredited) · Screenplay, Characters, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/kill-bill-vol-2.md)
- *Kill Bill: Vol. 1* (2003), Writer, Characters, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/kill-bill-vol-1.md)
- *Duck Dodgers* (2003), series, as Master Moloch (voice)
- *Kaante* (2002), Original Story
- *Hero* (2002), Presenter, Executive Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/hero.md)
- *Pulp Fiction: Behind The Scenes Montages* (2002), Actor
- *Alias* (2001), series, as McKenas Cole — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/alias.md)
- *Little Nicky* (2000), as Deacon
- *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), series, Director, Story
- *From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter* (2000), Executive Producer
- *From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Jackie Chan: My Story* (1998), Thanks
- *Kisses in the Dark* (1998), as Panhandle Slim (voice) (The Coriolis Effect)
- *God Said, 'Ha!'* (1998), Executive Producer
- *Jackie Brown* (1997), as Answering Machine (voice) (uncredited) · Screenplay, Executive Music Producer, Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/jackie-brown.md)
- *Curdled* (1996), as Ritchie Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited) · Executive Producer
- *Girl 6* (1996), as Director #1 - NY
- *From Dusk Till Dawn* (1996), as Richard Gecko · Screenplay, Executive Producer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/from-dusk-till-dawn.md)
- *Four Rooms* (1995), as Chester · Director, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Dance Me to the End of Love* (1995), Writer
- *Desperado* (1995), as Pick-Up Guy
- *Destiny Turns on the Radio* (1995), as Destiny
- *Somebody to Love* (1994), as Bartender
- *Sleep with Me* (1994), as Sid
- *ER* (1994), series, Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md)
- *All-American Girl* (1994), series, as Desmond
- *Pulp Fiction* (1994), as Jimmie Dimmick · Story, Director, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/pulp-fiction.md)
- *Natural Born Killers* (1994), Story — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/natural-born-killers.md)
- *The Coriolis Effect* (1994), as Panhandle Slim (voice)
- *Killing Zoe* (1993), Executive Producer
- *True Romance* (1993), Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/true-romance.md)
- *Eddie Presley* (1993), as Asylum Attendant
- *Reservoir Dogs* (1992), as Mr. Brown · Writer, Director, Additional Dialogue — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/reservoir-dogs.md)
- *Past Midnight* (1992), Associate Producer
- *Reservoir Dogs* (1991), as Mr. White · Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
- *Vegetables* (1989), as Quentin
- *Dolph Lundgren: Maximum Potential* (1987), Production Office Assistant
- *The Golden Girls* (1985), series, as Elvis Impersonator — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-golden-girls.md)
- *Django/Zorro*, Characters, Comic Book, Producer
- *Iconoclasts: Quentin Tarantino & Fiona Apple*, as Other
- *Tangled Up in Blue*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Quentin Tarantino](https://film.one/media/person/8993/gallery-e2bb9fbd71f5.jpg) Quentin Tarantino — Image via TMDB
- ![Quentin Tarantino](https://film.one/media/person/8993/gallery-2bf7d223a6e2.jpg) Quentin Tarantino — Image via TMDB
- ![Quentin Tarantino](https://film.one/media/person/8993/gallery-322d2eefa7e1.jpg) Quentin Tarantino — Image via TMDB
- ![Quentin Tarantino](https://film.one/media/person/8993/gallery-733591aab84e.jpg) Quentin Tarantino — Image via TMDB
- ![Quentin Tarantino](https://film.one/media/person/8993/gallery-3e3e397a67ba.jpg) Quentin Tarantino — Image via TMDB
- ![Quentin Tarantino](https://film.one/media/person/8993/gallery-f8650f00b6d8.jpg) Quentin Tarantino — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 3 won, 5 nominated

- 2020: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood*
- 2020: Best Director (nominated), for *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood*
- 2013: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won), for *Django Unchained*
- 2010: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Inglourious Basterds*
- 2010: Best Director (nominated), for *Inglourious Basterds*
- 1995: Academy Awards (won)
- 1995: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won), for *Pulp Fiction*
- 1995: Best Director (nominated), for *Pulp Fiction*

### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won

- 2013: Best Original Screenplay (won), for *Django Unchained*

### Golden Globes — 5 won, 1 nominated

- 2020: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (won), for *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood*
- 2020: Best Screenplay (won), for *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood*
- 2013: Best Screenplay (won), for *Django Unchained*
- 2012: Best Screenplay (nominated), for *Django Unchained*
- 1995: Golden Globe Awards (won)
- 1994: Best Screenplay (won), for *Pulp Fiction*

### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won

- 1994: Palme d'Or (won), for *Pulp Fiction*

### Other awards — 12 won, 1 nominated

- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 2013: Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- Lumière Award, Lyon Festival of cinema 2013: Lumière Award, Lyon Festival of cinema (won)
- Saturn Awards 2013: Saturn Awards (won)
- Britannia Awards 2012: Britannia Awards (won)
- Honorary César 2011: Honorary César (won)
- Officer of Arts and Letters 2004: Officer of Arts and Letters (won)
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film 2003: European Film Award for Best Non-European Film (nominated), for *Kill Bill: Volume 1*
- Time Machine Award 1996: Time Machine Award (won)
- David di Donatello for Best International Film 1995: David di Donatello for Best International Film (won)
- Edgar Awards 1995: Edgar Awards (won)
- Film Independent Spirit Awards 1995: Film Independent Spirit Awards (won)
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 1994: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (won), for *Pulp Fiction*
- Sitges Film Festival Best Director award 1992: Sitges Film Festival Best Director award (won), for *Reservoir Dogs*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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