Quentin Tarantino Names The Best Movie He's Made, And It's Not 'Pulp Fiction'

Quentin Tarantino has revealed what he thinks is his best movie — and it’s not his most successful film at the box office.

Tarantino told SiriusXM radio host Howard Stern on Wednesday that his pick is  “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

“I’d usually say something like ‘Oh, they’re all my children,’” Tarantino said when Stern asked him to name the defining movie of his career. “Then I would change it to ‘Well, it kind of depends on when you ask me.’ If you ask me one year or one moment I could say ‘Kill Bill.’ Another one I could say something else.” 

He continued: “I really do think ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ is my best movie.” 

The 2019 film, Tarantino’s latest, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as actors looking to work in late-’60s Hollywood. It racked up 10 Academy Award nominations, scored Pitt the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and earned over $374 million at the box office. That’s roughly $50 million less than his highest-grossing film “Django Unchained.”

Tarantino, who appeared on Stern’s show to promote his new book “Cinema Speculation,” has criticized Hollywood’s current era as one of the worst in movie history.

“I do feel that ’80s cinema is, along with the ’50s, the worst era in Hollywood history, matched only by now — matched only by the current era,” Tarantino said on his “Video Archives” podcast  earlier this month.