Quentin Tarantino
Film director, screenwriter and author
Quentin Tarantino is an American filmmaker, actor and author who directed Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Cinema Speculation is his first nonfiction book.
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American Born 1963 in Knoxville, United States
About Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He held a number of jobs in the 1980s and wrote several screenplays before directing his first film, Reservoir Dogs, in 1992. Pulp Fiction followed in 1994, winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes and his first Academy Award, for Best Original Screenplay. Django Unchained later earned him a second Oscar in the same category. His other films include Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). In 2021 he published a novel based on that last film. Cinema Speculation is his first nonfiction book.