Filmography: Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003); Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004); Death Proof (2007); Inglourious Basterds (2009); Django Unchained (2012) Much like Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino is one of the few directors who can unite almost all the disparate elements of film fanatics. Tarantino's trademark dialogue, imbued with a unique, crude sense of poetry that make the delivery of his lines zip with the sort of energy that can only be compared to world-class singing, is an unmistakable aspect of Tarantino's work that even the most laymen of film fans can immediately identify. The characters that inhabit the Tarantino-verse are so larger than life, and so particularly suited for cinema, that the second they appear on the flickering silver screen, they automatically enter the halls of film immortality. The performances, the music, the narrative structure, the editing, the cinematography, they all scream THE MOVIES!, and it's hard not to appreciate this love for cinema. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a single individual who knows more or cares as much about the movies as Quentin Tarantino. The man was simply born to make films, and his love of genre filmmaking, and his tip of the hat to the films that inspired him, make this very clear. Whether it be kung fu, grindhouse, or western flicks, Tarantino has references abound. Particularly in the new millennium, Tarantino has jumped into the more fantastical elements of genre filmmaking, leaving behind some of the gangster chic façade of his previous work. The trio of films Tarantino made in the 1990's still stand as his best work, but the more over exaggerated version of Tarantino is still a blast and he is still is one of the best auteurs making movies today.
A film fanatic at a very young age, starting with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies and gradually moving up to more sophisticated fare, at around the age of ten he became inexplicably obsessed with all things Oscar. With the incredibly trivial power of being able to chronologically name every Best Picture winner from memory, his lifelong goal is to see every Oscar nominated film, in every major category, in the history of the Academy Awards.
