Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is a director, actor, film critic, and author from the United States. His films are known for their extensive allusions to popular culture and cinema history, as well as nonlinear plots, dark comedy, stylized violence, lengthy conversation, profanity, cameos, and ensemble casts.

Tarantino has been nominated for several major prizes over his career, including seven Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards, and sixteen Saturn Awards. Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained both earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival four times, winning once in 1994 for Pulp Fiction. Tarantino has gotten five Grammy Award nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in addition to his honors for writing and directing films.

Tarantino received the honorary Icon of the Decade award at the 10th Empire Awards in 2005. In 2007, he was honored with lifetime achievement honors from two organizations: Cinemanila and the Rome Film Festival. Tarantino received the Honorary César Award from the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma in 2011.

Born: March 27, 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States