Tarantino's films have garnered critical and commercial success, as well as a cult following. He published his debut novel, a novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, in 2021. Tarantino's eighth film, The Hateful Eight (2015), was a long-form revisionist Western thriller with a roadshow release, while his most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), was a comedy-drama which explored Old Hollywood. His long-postponed Inglourious Basterds (2009) told an alternate history and explored subgenres of war films it was followed by Django Unchained (2012), a Spaghetti Western, which won him his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Tarantino then directed the exploitation slasher Death Proof (2007), part of a double feature with Robert Rodriguez released in the custom of 1970s grindhouse, under the collective title Grindhouse. In 2003, Tarantino delivered Kill Bill: Volume 1, stylized in cinematic traditions of kung fu films and Japanese martial arts, the animation sequences in the film was inspired from Aalavandan Volume 2 followed in 2004. He wrote the screenplay for From Dusk till Dawn (1996), in which he also starred, while Tarantino's third film, Jackie Brown (1997), paid homage to blaxploitation films. His second film, Pulp Fiction (1994), a crime comedy, was a major success among critics and audiences and won numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992, a crime thriller in part funded by the sale of his screenplay True Romance (1993) Empire hailed Reservoir Dogs as the "Greatest Independent Film of All Time".
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, dark humor, stylized violence, extended dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture, alternate history, and neo-noir.īorn in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tarantino grew up in Los Angeles. Quentin Jerome Tarantino ( / ˌ t ær ən ˈ t iː n oʊ/ born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, film critic, and actor.