Quentin Tarantino filmography

Tarantino at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International

Quentin Tarantino is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor, who has directed ten films.

He first began his career in the 1980s by directing and writing Love Birds In Bondage and writing, directing and starring in the black-and-white My Best Friend's Birthday, a partially lost amateur short film which was never officially released. He impersonated musician Elvis Presley in a small role in the sitcom The Golden Girls (1988), and briefly appeared in Eddie Presley (1992). As an independent filmmaker, he directed, wrote, and appeared in the crime thriller Reservoir Dogs (1992), which tells the story of six strangers brought together for a jewelry heist. It proved to be Tarantino's breakthrough film and was named the "Greatest Independent Film of all Time" by Empire. His screenplay for Tony Scott's True Romance (1993) was nominated for a Saturn Award. Also in 1993, he served as an executive producer for Killing Zoe and wrote two other films.

In 1994, Tarantino wrote and directed the neo-noir black comedy Pulp Fiction, a major critical and commercial success. Cited in the media as a defining film of the modern Hollywood, the film earned Tarantino an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, a Best Director nomination and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The following year, Tarantino directed The Man from Hollywood, one of the four segments of the anthology film Four Rooms, and an episode of ER, entitled "Motherhood". He wrote Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn (1996)—one of the many collaborations between them—which attained cult status and spawned several sequels, in which they served as executive producers. His next directorial ventures Jackie Brown (1997) and Kill Bill (2003–04) were met with critical acclaim. The latter, a two-part martial arts film (Volume 1 and Volume 2), follows a former assassin, seeking revenge on her ex-colleagues who attempted to kill her.

Tarantino's direction of "Grave Danger", a CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode, garnered him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series nomination. He directed a scene in Frank Miller and Rodriguez's Sin City (2005). Tarantino and Rodriguez later collaborated in the double feature Grindhouse (2007); he directed the segment Death Proof. He next penned and directed the war film Inglourious Basterds (2009), a fictionalized account of the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. The critically and commercially successful film earned Tarantino two nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards—Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. His greatest commercial success came with the 2012 western film Django Unchained, earning $425.4 million worldwide; it also won him another Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He then wrote and directed another commercially successful western film The Hateful Eight (2015), whose screenplay was nominated for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. He then wrote the 2019 drama Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which follows actor Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth as they navigate 1969 Hollywood, an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Film

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Tarantino with Diane Kruger, who appeared in Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds

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Tarantino with Margot Robbie, who appeared in Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes	Refs.
1987	My Best Friend's Birthday	Yes	Yes	Yes	Amateur film Co-written with Craig Hamman
1991	Past Midnight	No	Uncredited	Associate
1992	Reservoir Dogs	Yes	Yes	No
1993	True Romance	No	Yes	No
1994	Pulp Fiction	Yes	Yes	No	Story co-written with Roger Avary
1994	Natural Born Killers	No	Story	No
1994	It's Pat	No	Uncredited	No
1995	Crimson Tide	No	Uncredited	No
1995	Four Rooms	Segment director	Segment writer	Executive	Segment: "The Man from Hollywood"
1996	From Dusk till Dawn	No	Yes	Executive
1996	The Rock	No	Uncredited	No
1997	Jackie Brown	Yes	Yes	No
2003	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Yes	Yes	No
2004	Kill Bill: Volume 2	Yes	Yes	No
2005	Sin City	Guest director	No	No
2007	Grindhouse: Death Proof	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also cinematographer
2007	Grindhouse: Planet Terror	No	No	Yes
2009	Inglourious Basterds	Yes	Yes	No
2012	Django Unchained	Yes	Yes	No
2015	The Hateful Eight	Yes	Yes	No
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Yes	Yes	Yes

Executive producer only

Year	Title	Notes	Refs.
1993	Killing Zoe
1996	Curdled
1998	God Said Ha!
1999	From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money	Direct-to-video
1999	From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter	Direct-to-video
2002	Hero
2004	My Name Is Modesty
2005	Daltry Calhoun
2005	Hostel
2006	Freedom's Fury	Documentary film
2007	Hostel: Part II
2008	Hell Ride

Acting roles and documentary appearances

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Refs.
1987	My Best Friend's Birthday	Clarence Poole	Lead role
1992	Eddie Presley	Asylum attendant	Cameo
1992	Reservoir Dogs	Mr. Brown
1994	The Coriolis Effect	Panhandle Slim	Short film, voice cameo
1994	Pulp Fiction	Jimmie Dimmick
1994	Somebody to Love	Bartender	Cameo
1994	Sleep with Me	Sid	Cameo
1995	Dance Me to the End of Love	Groom	Short film
1995	Four Rooms	Chester Rush	Segment: "The Man from Hollywood"
1995	Desperado	Pick-up guy
1995	Destiny Turns on the Radio	Johnny Destiny
1996	From Dusk till Dawn	Richie Gecko
1996	Girl 6	Director #1 – NY	Cameo
1997	Jackie Brown	Answering Machine	Voice cameo
1998	God Said Ha!	Himself
2000	Little Nicky	Deacon	Cameo
2003	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Crazy 88 member	Cameo
2005	The Muppets' Wizard of Oz	Himself	Television film; cameo
2007	Death Proof	Warren the Bartender
2007	Sukiyaki Western Django	Piringo
2007	Planet Terror	Rapist #1 / Zombie eating road kill	Cameos
2007	Diary of the Dead	Newsreader	Voice cameo
2008	Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!	Himself	Documentary film
2009	Inglourious Basterds	First scalped victim / American GI	Cameo
2011	POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold	Himself	Documentary film
2012	Django Unchained	Robert (Bag Head #1) / Frankie	Cameos
2014	She's Funny That Way	Himself	Cameo
2015	The Hateful Eight	Narrator	Voice cameo
2018	What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael	Himself	Documentary film
2018	The Great Buster: A Celebration	Himself	Documentary film
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Red Apple Cigarettes commercial director	Voice cameo
2019	QT8: The First Eight	Himself (archival footage)	Documentary film
2020	Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth	Himself	Documentary film
2021	Django & Django	Himself	Documentary film

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes	Refs.
1995	ER	Yes	No	Episode: "Motherhood"
2005	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Yes	Story	Episode: "Grave Danger"
2014–2016	From Dusk till Dawn: The Series	No	Story	Based on From Dusk till Dawn, story co-written with Robert Rodriguez

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Refs.
1988	The Golden Girls	Elvis Presley impersonator	Episode: "Sophia's Wedding: Part 1"
1995	All-American Girl	Desmond Winocki	Episode: "Pulp Sitcom"
	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Quentin Tarantino / The Smashing Pumpkins"
2002, 2004	Alias	McKenas Cole	Episodes: "The Box (Part 1)", "The Box (Part 2)", "Full Disclosure", and "After Six"
2005	Duck Dodgers	Master Moloch (voice)	Episode: "Master & Disaster"
2022	Super Pumped	Narrator (voice)	7 episodes

Video games

• 1996: Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair as Jack Cavello