Quentin Tarantino Articles

  Sofia Coppola’s SOMEWHERE Wins Venice Film Festival’s 2010 Golden Lion "This film enchanted us from its first screening," 2010 Venice Film Festival jury president Quentin Tarantino remarked at the closing ceremony on Saturday. "Yet, from that first enchanting screening, it grew and grew and grew in both our hearts, in our analysis, in our minds, and in our affections." Displaying a tenuous handle on [...]

Oscar winners Andrew Jones, Richard Baneham, Christoph Waltz, and Sandra Bullock arrive with guests at the Governors Ball after the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, March 7, 2010. Both Jones and Baneham won Oscars for Best Visual Effects for their work on James Cameron sci-fi adventure Avatar. Christoph Waltz won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his [...]

Academy Award nominee Quentin Tarantino with Oscar winner Christoph Waltz at the Governors Ball after the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, March 7, 2010. Christoph Waltz won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as a vicious Nazi in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino was up for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, but lost to, respectively, [...]

On the positive side, it was good to see Pedro Almodóvar (above, with Quentin Tarantino) introducing some of the Best Foreign Language Film nominees, the speech by art director Robert Stromberg — who survived some unspecified deadly illness — was quite moving, and it was interesting to see John Hughes‘ alumni in 2010 in an otherwise poorly presented tribute. (A tribute for the recently deceased [...]