Quentin Jerome Tarantino Born: Quentin Jerome Tarantino March

Quentin Jerome Tarantino

Born: Quentin Jerome Tarantino March 27, 1963 (age 47) Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. Occupation: Film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor Career: 1988–present Direction: Independent American cinema Rewards: «Gold globe»(1994) «Oscar» (1994) BAFTA (1994) «Gold palm branch» (1994)

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (pronounced /ˌtærənˈtiːnoʊ/; 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 the aestheticization of violence. His most notable films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003–2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). His films have earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a Palme d'Or and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy awards. In 2007, Total Film named him the 12th-greatest director of all time Born

Early life 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 who was born in Queens, New York. Tarantino's father is Italian American and his mother is of Irish and Cherokee ancestry.He was raised by his mother, as his parents separated before his birth.When he was two years old, he and his mother moved to Torrance, California, and later to the Harbor City neighborhood where he went to Fleming Junior High School in Lomita and took drama classes. He attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City for his freshman year before dropping out of school at age 15. He attended acting school at the James Best Theatre Company in Toluca Lake. At age 22, he worked at the Video Archives, a defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach where he and fellow movie buffs, like Roger Avary, spent all day discussing cinema and recommending videos to customers.

Awards Reservoir Dogs was given the Critic's Award at the 4th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in 1993. Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.The film was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one for Best Original Screenplay, which was shared jointly by Tarantino and co-writer Roger Avary. In 2005 Quentin Tarantino won the Icon of the Decade award at the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards. On August 15, 2007, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo presented Tarantino with a lifetime achievement award at the Malacañang Palace in Manila. In 2010 his film Inglourious Basterds was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, winning one for Best Supporting Actor. In March 2010, Tarantino was awarded the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic along with Lucy Liu and Andy Vajna for producing the 2006 movie Freedom's Fury.

Film actor In Reservoir Dogs (1992), Tarantino plays the minor role of Mr. Brown. In Pulp Fiction (1994), Tarantino plays the minor role of Jimmy. Tarantino played a cameo role in the 1995 film, Desperado (directed by his friend Robert Rodriguez). He starred as Johnny Destiny in the film Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995). In Four Rooms (1995), Tarantino plays the minor role of famous director, Chester Rush. Tarantino co-starred alongside George Clooney in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). Tarantino appeared briefly in the beginning of Spike Lee's film, Girl 6 (1996). Tarantino played a cameo role in Little Nicky (2000), as a crazy, blind, apocalypse preacher. In the two-part Kill Bill film (2003 and 2004), Tarantino plays a member of the Crazy 88. In 2007, Tarantino had a small role as Ringo in the Takashi Miike film Sukiyaki Western Django. Tarantino had substantial screen-time in the two 2007 Grindhouse double-features, Death Proof and Planet Terror, wherein he takes on the roles of Warren, a bartender, and Lewis the Rapist, an infected member of a rogue military unit, respectively. In the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino acted minor roles as the first German soldier to be scalped by the titular Basterds, as well as an American GI with a small speaking part portrayed in the propaganda film, Nation's Pride, that appears within the film. Moreover, In an interview with a German newspaper, he also said that the hands strangling Bridget von Hammersmark (played by Diane Kruger) were his own; he wanted it to look "as real as possible".[31] In Jackie Brown, the voice on Jackie's answering machine is Tarantino's. In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Tarantino cameos as himself as he tries to help Kermit the Frog make the film better.

Producer In recent years, Tarantino has used his Hollywood power to give smaller and foreign films arguably more attention than they would otherwise have received. These films are usually labeled "Presented by Quentin Tarantino" or "Quentin Tarantino Presents". The first of these productions was in 2001 with the Hong Kong martial arts film Iron Monkey which made over $14 million in the United States, seven times its budget. In 2004 he brought the Chinese martial arts film Hero to U.S. shores. It ended up having a #1 opening at the box office and making $53.5 million. In 2006, the latest "Quentin Tarantino presents" production, Hostel, opened at #1 at the box office with a $20.1 million opening weekend, good for 8th all time in January. He presented 2006's The Protector, and is a producer of the (2007) film Hostel: Part II. in 2008 he produced the Larry Bishop helmed Hell Ride, a revenge biker film.

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