The 2010 TIME 100 Poll

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators and icons who you think are the most influential people in the world. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed, with Mir-Hossein Mousavi having won the honor, users can continue to vote for their favorites until the list is revealed on Thursday, April 29th

2010 Candidates

Quentin Tarantino

By TIME STAFFThursday, Apr. 01, 2010
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Age: 47
Occupation: Writer, filmmaker
Previous TIME 100 Appearances: 1

Five years after he wrapped the Kill Bill saga (and two years after his less-than-successful genre throwback Grindhouse) Tarantino returned with a feature-length war film that scrambled both history and genre, leaving critics — not to mention Oscar voters — giddy. Probably the only filmmaker with the gall to make a World War II epic with a brand new ending, Tarantino didn't just envision a different fate for Adolf Hitler but gave us a Nazi SS officer (Oscar winner Christoph Waltz) more charismatic than Brad Pitt. Is there anything the twitchy, frenetic master of cinema can't do?

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