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Events on Friday 21 August 2009 1
2009Inglourious BasterdsHistory rewritten, and WaltzA war film in four languages that ends by burning Hitler alive in a Paris cinema — the first of Tarantino's revisionist revenge fantasies. Christoph Waltz, essentially unknown outside German television, wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Hans Landa. The opening farmhouse scene is arguably the best twenty minutes Tarantino has directed.