Quentin Tarantino
Oscar's big question: How did David slay Goliath?
Mar 08, 2010 21:27 EST
How did the little movie best the huge one? Theories on how 'Hurt Locker' beat 'Avatar'. For Hollywood pundits, industry folk and Oscar fans still paying attention on Monday, a major question remained: How did David slay Goliath?
The 2010 Oscars -- As It Happened
Mar 08, 2010 10:08 EST
Welcome to AFP's live report on the 2010 Oscars. A crush of stars in all their finery are beginning to descend on Hollywood?s Kodak Theatre for the movie industry?s biggest night out.
A-listers, Olympians mingle at Oscar after-parties
Mar 08, 2010 10:02 EST
A-list stars and Olympians mingle at Oscar after-parties. With his shaggy red hair, black leather jacket and skintight American flag-printed jeans, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White upstaged even glam Oscar winner Sandra Bullock at a pack of parties around town following the Academy Awards.
'The Hurt Locker' rules on historic Oscars night
Mar 08, 2010 07:22 EST
Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" blew away box office king "Avatar" to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a historic Hollywood night.
No more Nazis for Oscar winner Waltz
Mar 08, 2010 07:13 EST
An Oscar triumph tops an extraordinary year for Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, who has now won every major film prize for his portrayal of a sadistic Germany officer, but has vowed never to play such a role again.
Bigelow pioneers Oscars with `Hurt Locker' win
Mar 08, 2010 06:08 EST
`Hurt Locker' director Bigelow pioneers Oscars with first win for female filmmaker. Kathryn Bigelow played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker" to the screen.
'The Hurt Locker' rules on historic Oscars night
Mar 08, 2010 05:35 EST
Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" blew away box office king "Avatar" to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a historic Hollywood night.
Bigelow makes Oscar history as war drama triumphs
Mar 08, 2010 05:00 EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood finally entrusted a female director with an Oscar on Sunday.
Bigelow makes Oscar history as war drama triumphs
Mar 08, 2010 05:00 EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood finally entrusted a female director with an Oscar on Sunday.
'The Hurt Locker' rules on historic Oscars night
Mar 08, 2010 04:57 EST
Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" blew away box office king "Avatar" to take six Oscars, with Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first woman to win the best director award on a historic Hollywood night.
Front-runners rule at predictable Oscars
Mar 08, 2010 02:46 EST
`The Hurt Locker' wins six awards, including best picture, at predictable Oscars. On a night when so many changes were intended to shake up the Oscar ceremony, the winners themselves were pretty predictable, with "The Hurt Locker" taking six awards including best picture.
James Cameron, Golden Globes lead Oscar losers
Mar 08, 2010 02:34 EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Twelve years ago, James Cameron declared he was "king of the world" when "Titanic" won the Oscar for best picture.
Waltz goes from Hollywood unknown to Oscar winner
Mar 08, 2010 01:25 EST
Waltz's gleefully evil Nazi in 'Inglourious Basterds' wins supporting actor Oscar. Christoph Waltz was a veteran TV and stage actor in Europe who was virtually unknown in Hollywood. Then he met Quentin Tarantino.
Bigelow wins best director Oscar for "Hurt Locker"
Mar 08, 2010 00:32 EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman ever to win a best director Oscar on Sunday for her hard-nosed work on "The Hurt Locker," the Iraq war film about a team of U.S. soldiers who defuse bombs.
Christoph Waltz wins Oscar for "Basterds"
Mar 07, 2010 22:28 EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Christoph Waltz won a best supporting actor Oscar on Sunday for his role as a ruthless Nazi officer in "Inglourious Basterds," claiming his first ever Academy Award.
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Mar 07, 2010 19:00 EST
In a classic Oscar upset, ``The Hurt Locker,'' a gritty low-budget movie about a bomb squad in Iraq, won best picture at the 82nd annual Academy Awards last night, beating out ``Avatar,'' the 3-D sci-fi extravaganza that with $2.6 billion in worldwide grosses is the most commercially successful movie of all time. As if that weren't enough drama, ``Hurt Locker'' director Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for best director over her ex-husband, ``Avatar'' maestro James Cameron. Her achievement was historic as well as personal: Bigelow is the first woman to receive the directing award in the history of the Academy Awards. ``There's no other way to describe it: It's the moment of a lifetime,'' Bigelow said upon taking the Oscar from presenter Barbra Streisand. She dedicated the statue to the men and women of the US military. In a much-expected win, Jeff Bridges received the best actor award for his portrayal of a boozy country music has-been in ``Crazy Heart.'' His first Oscar in five nominatio
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Mar 07, 2010 19:00 EST
Christoph Waltz, an Austrian actor unknown to American audiences, and Mo'Nique, a stand-up comedian not known for her dramatic skills, were early winners at the 82d annual Academy Awards, held last night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Waltz won best supporting actor for his performance as a merrily sadistic SS officer in Quentin Tarantino's revisionist World War II action film ``Inglourious Basterds.'' Accepting the award from presenter Penelope Cruz, Waltz said, ``Oscar and Penelope - that's an uber-bingo.'' Mo'Nique won best supporting actress for ``Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' by Sapphire,'' in which she played a nightmarishly abusive inner-city mother. A visibly emotional Mo'Nique thanked ``Gone With the Wind'' Oscar-winner Hattie McDaniels as a key groundbreaker and her husband, Sidney Hicks, for urging her to ``do what's right, not what's popular.'' She and Waltz were favorites to win their categories. Both won numerous plaudits in year-end critics' polls and industr
Scandal-tainted 'Hurt Locker' favorite for Oscars
Mar 06, 2010 04:59 EST
Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" is set for for an Oscars shoot-out with science-fiction epic "Avatar" Sunday as the movie industry descends on Hollywood for the 82nd Academy Awards.
Scandal-tainted 'Hurt Locker' favorite for Oscars
Mar 06, 2010 04:58 EST
Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" is set for for an Oscars shoot-out with science-fiction epic "Avatar" Sunday as the movie industry descends on Hollywood for the 82nd Academy Awards.
Cult fave "T.A.M.I. Show" comes to DVD
Mar 06, 2010 00:18 EST
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Director Quentin Tarantino ranks it in the "top three of all rock movies." "Little Steven" Van Zandt proclaims it "the greatest rock movie you've never seen."
Facts from the Wikipedia page:
| Quentin Tarantino | |
|---|---|
Tarantino at the Scream Awards, October 19, 2007 | |
| Born | Quentin Jerome Tarantino March 27, 1963 Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor |
| Years active | 1988 – present |