Django Unchained

In Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012), DiCaprio chewed the scenery as a slave-driving plantation owner in antebellum Mississippi. He then appeared in another grandiose role—the title character in Luhrmann’s glitzy 2013 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. That role was echoed in his bombastic turn as…

Django Unchained (2012), set in the antebellum American South, tells the lively tale of a freed slave attempting to rescue his wife from a cruel plantation owner. For writing the screenplay of that film, Tarantino won another Academy Award. The post-Civil War western The Hateful…

In Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012), a fantasia set in the antebellum American South, Foxx starred as a freed slave attempting to rescue his wife from a cruel plantation owner. He then played a U.S. president imperiled by a terrorist attack in the action entertainment White House Down…

…memorable roles in his films Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015). Tarantino has said that Goggins’s work on Justified convinced him that Goggins had what it takes to embody Tarantino’s signature style. Also in 2012 Goggins made his first appearance in the fifth season of Sons of Anarchy…

…also appeared in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012). In 2013 Hill played an exaggerated version of himself in the horror comedy This Is the End, about the apocalypse, and portrayed the drug-addicted sidekick of the title character (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Martin Scorsese’s dark comedy The Wolf of Wall Street, for…

…slaver’s butler in Tarantino’s blood-drenched Django Unchained (2012). After Jackson allowed Marvel Comics to use his features for the character Nick Fury, he signed (2009) a nine-movie deal that included Iron Man 2 (2010), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014),

) Tarantino also directed Django Unchained (2012), a partial homage to Corbucci’s Django.

Waltz’s second Tarantino collaboration, in Django Unchained (2012), proved just as incendiary as the first. His character—one of the heroes of a revenge fantasy set in the antebellum American South—is complex, troubling, and delightful. Tarantino wrote the part specifically for Waltz, who flawlessly inhabited the role of the erudite dentist…

…Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012), the historical drama The King’s Speech (2010), the silent-film homage The Artist (2011), and The Imitation Game (2014), a biopic about Alan Turing.