Quentin Tarantino is an American filmmaker celebrated for his stylised dialogue, nonlinear structure and encyclopaedic love of genre cinema. He announced himself with 'Reservoir Dogs' (1992) and became one of the most influential directors of his era with 'Pulp Fiction' (1994), which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His filmography — 'Kill Bill', 'Inglourious Basterds', 'Django Unchained' and 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' — blends pulp violence, sharp writing and film-history homage. He also appears as an actor, usually in supporting roles and cameos within his own films, extending the playful, self-aware sensibility that defines his work.
Quentin Tarantino
63 years (Mar 27, 1963)Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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Quentin Tarantino is an American filmmaker celebrated for his stylised dialogue, nonlinear structure and encyclopaedic love of genre cinema. He announced himself with 'Reservoir Dogs' (1992) and became one of the most influential directors of his era with 'Pulp Fiction' (1994), which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His filmography — 'Kill Bill', 'Inglourious Basterds', 'Django Unchained' and 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' — blends pulp violence, sharp writing and film-history homage. He also appears as an actor, usually in supporting roles and cameos within his own films, extending the playful, self-aware sensibility that defines his work.
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 have earned him a variety of Academy Award, 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.
Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh Tarantino Zastoupil, a health care executive and nurse born in Knoxville, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician born in Queens, New York. Tarantino's mother allowed him to quit school at age 17, to attend an acting class full time. Tarantino gave up acting while attending the acting school, saying that he admired directors more than actors. Tarantino also worked in a video rental store before becoming a filmmaker, paid close attention to the types of films people liked to rent, and has cited that experience as inspiration for his directorial career.Quentin Tarantino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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