American · b. 1963
Quentin Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Los Angeles, he worked in a video store before breaking through with Reservoir Dogs in 1992. Pulp Fiction followed in 1994 and won him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Palme d'Or at Cannes. His later films include Jackie Brown, the two Kill Bill films, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He won a second screenplay Oscar for Django Unchained. His films are known for sharp dialogue, nonlinear structure, graphic violence and heavy borrowing from B-movies, spaghetti Westerns and crime cinema. He has also written the screenplays for True Romance and Natural Born Killers. His novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, published in 2021, was his first book of fiction, and he followed it with a collection of film criticism, Cinema Speculation, in 2022.