‘I actually think if people are like, knowing about my movies 30 or 50 years from now, it’s gonna be because of the characters that I created’ — List of Quentin Tarantino Oscar nominations
Posted: July 2025
List of Oscar nominations and wins for Quentin Tarantino. Quentin Tarantino has been nominated for 8 Academy Awards, over 3 categories, and won 2. Year indicates year/period for which films were eligible for awards consideration, not year of ceremony. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database, Wikipedia
2019: Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (Best Picture) (shared with David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh) — lost to Parasite (Kwak Sin-ae, Bong Joon Ho). Other nominees: The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Emma Tillinger Koskoff), 1917 (Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Callum McDougall), Little Women (Amy Pascal), Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, David Heyman), Jojo Rabbit (Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi, Chelsea Winstanley), Ford v Ferrari (Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, James Mangold), Joker (Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger Koskoff)
2019: Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (Best Director) — lost to Bong Joon Ho (Parasite). Other nominees: Todd Phillips (Joker), Sam Mendes (1917), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
2019: Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (Best Original Screenplay) — lost to Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin-won). Other nominees: Knives Out (Rian Johnson), Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach), 1917 (Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns)
WON: 2012: Django Unchained (Best Original Screenplay) — Other nominees: Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal), Flight (John Gatins),
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola), Amour (Michael Haneke)
2009: Inglourious Basterds (Best Director) — lost to Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker). Other nominees: James Cameron (Avatar), Lee Daniels (Precious), Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
2009: Inglourious Basterds (Best Original Screenplay) — lost to The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal). Other nominees: A Serious Man (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen), The Messenger (Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman), Up (Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy)
1994: Pulp Fiction (Best Director) — lost to Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump). Other nominees: Woody Allen (Bullets Over Broadway), Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colors: Red), Robert Redford (Quiz Show)
WON: 1994: Pulp Fiction (Best Original Screenplay) (shared with Roger Avary) — Other nominees: Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieslowski), Four Weddings and a Funeral (Richard Curtis), Heavenly Creatures (Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson), Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath)
