Quentin Tarantino
Death Proof
(2007)
Quentin Tarantino
6 nominations.
In Austin, Texas, the girlfriends Julia, Arlene and Shanna meet in a bar to drink, smoke and make out with their boyfriends before traveling alone to Lake LBJ to spend the weekend together. They meet the former Hollywood stuntman Mike, who takes Pam out in his "death-proof" stunt car. Fourteen months later, Mike turns up in Lebanon, Tennessee and chase Abernathy, Zoë and Kim, but these girls are tough and decide to pay-back the attack.
Django Unchained
(2012)
Quentin Tarantino
Won 2 Oscars. Another 52 wins & 137 nominations.
Former dentist, Dr. King Schultz, buys the freedom of a slave, Django, and trains him with the intent to make him his deputy bounty hunter. Instead, he is led to the site of Django's wife who is under the hands of Calvin Candie, a ruthless plantation owner.
Inglourious Basterds
(2009)
Quentin Tarantino
Won 1 Oscar. Another 117 wins & 143 nominations.
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Jackie Brown
(1997)
Quentin Tarantino (written for the screen by), Elmore Leonard (novel)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 21 nominations.
The middle age stewardess Jackie Brown smuggles money from Mexico to Los Angeles for the arms dealer Ordell Robbie. When she gets caught by the agents Ray Nicolette and Mark Dargus with ten thousand dollars and cocaine in her purse, they propose a deal to her to help them to arrest Ordell in exchange of her freedom. Meanwhile Ordell asks the fifty-six year-old Max Cherry, who runs a bail bond business, to release Jackie Brown with the intention of eliminating her. Jackie suspects of Ordell's intention and plots a complicate confidence game with Max to steal half a million dollar from Ordell.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
(2003)
Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino (character The Bride), Uma Thurman (character The Bride)
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 19 wins & 73 nominations.
The Bride wakens from a four-year coma. The child she carried in her womb is gone. Now she must wreak vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her - a team she was once part of.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
(2004)
Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino (character The Bride), Uma Thurman (character The Bride)
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 15 wins & 61 nominations.
The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
Pulp Fiction
(1994)
Quentin Tarantino (story), Roger Avary (story), Quentin Tarantino
Won 1 Oscar. Another 54 wins & 60 nominations.
Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.
Reservoir Dogs
(1992)
Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary (background radio dialog), Quentin Tarantino (background radio dialog)
9 wins & 14 nominations.
After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Sin City
(2005)
Frank Miller (graphic novels)
29 wins & 45 nominations.
A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption.
The Hateful Eight
(2015)
Quentin Tarantino
Won 1 Oscar. Another 39 wins & 113 nominations.
Some time after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race towards the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Along the road, they encounter Major Marquis Warren (an infamous bounty hunter) and Chris Mannix (a man who claims to be Red Rock's new sheriff). Lost in a blizzard, the bunch seeks refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery. When they arrive they are greeted by unfamiliar faces: Bob, who claims to be taking care of the place while Minnie is gone; Oswaldo Mobray, the hangman of Red Rock; Joe Gage, a cow puncher; and confederate general Sanford Smithers. As the storm overtakes the mountainside, the eight travelers come to learn that they might not make it to Red Rock after all...