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.
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Primarily2025 The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth Writer
2025 Untitled Quentin Tarantino Project Director, Screenplay
2025 Luckless Revanchists Producer
2024 Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet as Himself
2023 Thanksgiving Thanks
2023 Sly as Self
2023 Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight as Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
2023 The Moviemakers: Tarantino as Self (archive footage)
2023 Cannes Uncut as Self (Archive)
2023 Burt Reynolds: The Last Interview as Self
2022 Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
2022 Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America as Self
2022 American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Self
2022 Halftime as Self
2022 Thriller - A Cruel Documentary Thanks
2022 Shoot to Live as Self
2022 Ennio as Self
2022 Michael Cimino, God Bless America as Self
2021 We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2021 Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained as Self - Filmmaker
2021 Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self
2020 Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth as Self
2020 A Love Letter To Making Movies as self
2019 QT8: The First Eight as Self (archive footage)
2019 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as Red Apple Ad Director (uncredited) (voice) Director, Producer, Screenplay
2019 What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self
2018 Friedkin Uncut as Self
2018 The Great Buster: A Celebration as Self
2018 Why Are We Creative? as Self
2017 Plankton Salesmen as Self (archive footage)
2017 Baby Driver Thanks
2017 John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2015 The Hateful Eight as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) Screenplay, Director
2015 A Christmas Eve Conversation With Quentin Tarantino & Paul Thomas Anderson as Self
2015 The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self
2015 She's Funny That Way as Quentin Tarantino
2014 21 Years: Richard Linklater Thanks
2014 One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film as Self
2013 Strutter Thanks
2013 I Tarantiniani as Self
2013 Propaganda as Self (archive footage)
2013 Malaria Thanks
2013 Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking as Self
2012 Django Unchained as The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee Director, Writer
2012 12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief as Self
2012 The Man with the Iron Fists Producer
2011 Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis as Self
2011 Corman's World as Self - Filmmaker
2011 Nightmare Factory as Self
2011 POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold as Self
2010 The Legend Still Lives: 30 Years of Madman Thanks
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Thanks
2010 Quentin Tarantino: A Life in Pictures as Self
2009 Stolz der Nation Producer
2009 Inglourious Basterds as First Scalped Nazi / American Soldier in 'Pride of Nation' (uncredited) Writer, Director
2008 Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX as Self
2008 Not Quite Hollywood as Self
2008 Hell Ride Executive Producer
2007 Sukiyaki Western Django as Ringo Executive Producer
2007 Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema as Self
2007 Hostel: Part II Executive Producer
2007 Diary of the Dead as Newsreader (voice) (uncredited) Thanks
2007 Death Proof as Warren Screenplay, Director of Photography, Producer, Director
2007 Grindhouse as Warren (segment "Death Proof") / Rapist #1 (segment "Planet Terror") Director, Presenter, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
2007 Planet Terror as Rapist #1 Producer
2006 Back to the Well: 'Clerks II' as Self
2006 Freedom's Fury Executive Producer
2006 50 Films to See Before You Die as Self
2006 Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair Writer, Director
2006 Hostel Executive Producer, Presenter
2006 Tarantino's Mind as Mr. Brown / Richard Gecko (archive footage)
2005 Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self
2005 Daltry Calhoun Executive Producer
2005 ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Revisited
2005 The Muppets' Wizard of Oz as Self - Kermit's Director
2005 Sin City Special Guest Director, Co-Director
2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
2004 The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing as Self
2004 My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure Executive Producer
2004 The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 2' as Self
2004 Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession as Self
2004 Mario Bava: Operazione paura as Self
2004 John Travolta: The Inside Story as Self
2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Characters, Screenplay, Director
2004 Double Dare as Self
2004 Celluloid Horror as Himself
2003 The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 1' as Self
2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Writer, Characters, Director
2002 Kaante Original Story
2002 Pulp Fiction: The Facts as Self
2002 Jackie Brown: How It Went Down as Self
2002 BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
2002 Hero Presenter
2002 All the Love You Cannes! as Self
2000 Little Nicky as Deacon
2000 From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter Executive Producer
2000 Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone as Self
1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money Executive Producer
1999 Forever Hollywood as Self
1998 Full Tilt Boogie as Self
1998 Jackie Chan: My Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Thanks
1998 Kisses in the Dark as Panhandle Slim (voice) (The Coriolis Effect)
1998 Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's as Self
1998 God Said, 'Ha!' as Self Executive Producer
1997 Jackie Brown as Answering Machine (voice) (uncredited) Screenplay, Executive Music Producer, Director
1997 Chicks Who Love Guns Director
1996 Curdled as Ritchie Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited) Executive Producer
1996 The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera as Self
1996 Girl 6 as Director #1 - NY
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn as Richard Gecko Executive Producer, Screenplay
1995 Four Rooms as Chester Executive Producer, Writer, Director
1995 Dance Me to the End of Love Writer
1995 Desperado as Pick-Up Guy
1995 Destiny Turns on the Radio as Destiny
1994 Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder as Self
1994 Somebody to Love as Bartender
1994 Sleep with Me as Sid
1994 Pulp Fiction as Jimmie Dimmick Story, Director, Writer
1994 Natural Born Killers Story
1994 The Coriolis Effect as Panhandle Slim (voice)
1994 You Talkin' to Me? as Self
1993 Killing Zoe Executive Producer
1993 True Romance Screenplay, Writer
1993 Eddie Presley as Asylum Attendant
1992 Reservoir Dogs as Mr. Brown Writer, Director, Additional Dialogue
1992 Past Midnight Associate Producer
1991 Reservoir Dogs as Mr. White Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
1989 Vegetables as Quentin
1987 Dolph Lundgren: Maximum Potential Production Office Assistant
1987 My Best Friend's Birthday as Clarence Pool Author, Producer, Editor, Writer, Director
7.56 War 2
7.47 TV Movie 6
7.47 Animation 1
7.39 History 6
7.01 Crime 18
6.90 Western 5
6.81 Documentary 62
6.70 Drama 19
6.69 Action 24
6.68 Thriller 24
6.47 Mystery 3
6.38 Romance 5
6.30 Adventure 3
6.14 Comedy 22
6.07 Music 7
6.06 Horror 10
5.60 Science Fiction 1
5.47 Fantasy 4
5.20 Family 1