films have frequently received nominations for major awards, including for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Directors Guild of America Awards, and Saturn Awards. He has won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay twice, for Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained. He has four times been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, winning once for Pulp Fiction in 1994. In addition to his recognition for writing and directing films, Tarantino has received five Grammy Award nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. In 2005, Tarantino was awarded the honorary Icon of the Decade at the 10th Empire Awards. He has earned lifetime achievement awards from two organizations in 2007, from Cinemanila, and from the Rome Film Festival in 2012. In 2011, Tarantino was awarded the Honorary César by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. For his work of Pulp Fiction, Tarantino became the first director to ever sweep "The Big Four" critics awards (LA, NBR, NY, NSFC) and the first of the five directors (Curtis Hanson, Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher, and Barry Jenkins) to do so. See also Quentin Tarantino Film Festival, a film festival in Austin, Texas, United States, hosted by Tarantino QT8: The First Eight, a 2019 documentary about Tarantino References Footnotes Citations Further reading Levy, Emanuel. Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film. New York: NYU Press, 1999; 2001 paperback. External links 1963 births 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American screenwriters 21st-century American male actors 21st-century American screenwriters American people of Italian descent Actors from Torrance, California American atheists American crime fiction writers American expatriates in Israel American male film actors American male screenwriters American male television actors Best Director AACTA International Award winners Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners Best Original Screenplay BAFTA Award winners Best Screenplay AACTA International Award winners Best Screenplay Golden Globe winners CAS Filmmaker Award honorees Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres César Honorary Award recipients Directors of Palme d'Or winners Edgar Award winners Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Film directors from California Film directors from Tennessee Film producers from Tennessee French-language film directors German-language film directors Independent Spirit Award for Best Director winners Recipients of the Legion of Honour Living people Male actors from Tennessee People from Knoxville, Tennessee People from Torrance, California Screenwriters from California Western (genre) film directors Western (genre) writers 20th-century American