 Django Unchained garnered several awards and nominations . The American Film Institute named it one of their Top Ten Movies of the Year in December 2012 . The film received five Golden Globe Award nominations , including Best Picture , and Best Director and Best Screenplay for Tarantino . Tarantino won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . Christoph Waltz received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor , the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor , and the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor , his second time receiving all three awards , having previously won for his role in Tarantino 's Inglourious Basterds . The NAACP Image Awards gave the film four nominations , while the National Board of Review named DiCaprio their Best Supporting Actor . Django Unchained earned a nomination for Best Theatrical Motion Picture from the Producers Guild of America . 
