


Tarantino's mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after arriving in Los Angeles, and the family moved to Torrance, a city in Los Angeles County's South Bay area. In 1966, Tarantino and his mother returned to Los Angeles. After a brief marriage and divorce, Connie left Los Angeles and moved to Knoxville, where her parents lived. Tarantino's mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles.
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He was named in part after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds's character in the TV series Gunsmoke. He is of Cherokee and Irish ancestry through his mother his father is of Italian descent. Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the only child of Connie McHugh and aspiring actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before his son's birth. Apart from receiving the Palme d'Or and two Academy Awards, his other major awards include two BAFTAs and four Golden Globes. He has been considered "the single most influential director of his generation" and listed as one of the most influential people in the world. ĭuring his career, Tarantino's films have garnered a cult following, as well as critical and commercial success. Tarantino's work has been subject to controversy, such as the depictions of violence, frequent inclusion of racial slurs, and the alleged negligence in his handling of stunt scenes on Kill Bill: Volume 2. His most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), was a comedy drama set in the late 1960s about the transition of Old Hollywood to New Hollywood a novelization of the film was also published in 2021 becoming his debut novel. Tarantino's eighth film, The Hateful Eight (2015), was a revisionist Western thriller and opened to audiences with a roadshow release. He followed this with Django Unchained (2012), a slave revenge Spaghetti Western, which won him his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His next film Inglourious Basterds (2009) told an alternate history with the war film genre. He then directed the exploitation slasher Death Proof (2007), part of a double feature with Robert Rodriguez, released under the collective title Grindhouse. In 2003, Tarantino delivered Kill Bill: Volume 1, inspired by the traditions of martial arts films followed by Volume 2 in 2004. Tarantino's third film, Jackie Brown (1997), paid homage to blaxploitation films. In 1996, he appeared in From Dusk till Dawn, also writing the screenplay. His second film, Pulp Fiction (1994), a dark comedy crime thriller, was a major success with critics and audiences winning numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Tarantino began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of the crime film Reservoir Dogs in 1992. Other directorial tropes that identify his style include the use of songs from the 1960s and 70s fictional brand parodies and imagery of women's bare feet. His films are characterized by frequent references to popular culture and film genres, nonlinear storylines, dark humor, stylized violence, extended dialogue, pervasive use of profanity, cameos and ensemble casts. Quentin Jerome Tarantino ( / ˌ t ær ən ˈ t iː n oʊ/ born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker and actor.
