Kill Bill: Vol.1 (2003)

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R for strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content.

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Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Academy Of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

2004 Won Saturn Award Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film

2004 Won Saturn Award Best Actress Uma Thurman

2004 Nominated Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award Female Chiaki Kuriyama

2004 Nominated Saturn Award Best Director Quentin Tarantino

2004 Nominated Saturn Award Best Supporting Actor Sonny Chiba

2004 Nominated Saturn Award Best Supporting Actress Lucy Liu

2004 Nominated Saturn Award Best Writing Quentin Tarantino

Art Directors Guild

2004 Nominated Excellence in Production Design Award Feature Film - Contemporary Film
David Wasco & Yohei Taneda (production designers); Daniel Bradford, Juiping Cao, Lui, Lu Yo & Hidefumi Hanatani (art directors); Ryo Sugimoto, Shinsuke Kojima & Christopher Tandon (assistant art directors)

Austin Film Critics Association

2009 Nominated Austin Film Critics Award Best Movie of the Decade. Also for Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

BAFTA Awards

2004 Nominated Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music RZA

2004 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects Tommy Tom, Tam, Kia Kwan, Wai Kit Leung & Wong Hin Leung, Jaco

2004 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Editing Sally Menke

2004 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Uma Thurman

2004 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Sound Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga, Wylie Stateman & Mark Ulano

Black Reel Awards

2004 Nominated Black Reel Film: Best Supporting Actress Vivica A. Fox

Central Ohio Film Critics Association

2004 Won COFCA Award Best Score RZA

Costume Designers Guild Awards

2004 Nominated CDG Award Excellence in Costume Design for Film – Contemporary Catherine Marie Thomas

Empire Awards, UK

2004 Won Empire Award Best Actress Uma Thurman

2004 Won Empire Award Best Director Quentin Tarantino

2004 Nominated Empire Award Best Film

2004 Nominated Empire Award Scene of the Year for: the House of the Blue Leaves

European Film Awards

2003 Nominated Screen International Award Quentin Tarantino USA

Golden Globes, USA

2004 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - DramaUma Thurman

Golden Trailer Awards

2004 Nominated Golden Trailer Best Action (Intralink Films)

2004 Nominated Golden Trailer Best Music (The Ant Farm) for: the teaser 1

Grammy Awards

2004 Nominated Grammy Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media "various artists"

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

2004 Nominated Silver Ribbon Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) Quentin Tarantino

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards

2004 Won Sierra Award Best Editing Sally Menke

MTV Movie Awards

2004 Won MTV Movie Award Best Female Performance Uma Thurman

2004 Won MTV Movie Award Best Fight Uma Thurman & Chiaki Kuriyama

2004 Won MTV Movie Award Best Villain Lucy Liu

MTV Movie Awards, Mexico

2004 Nominated MTV Movie Award Funniest American in Japan (Gringo/a más Gracioso en Japón) Uma Thurman

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA

2004 Nominated Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in Domestic Features - Sound Effects & Foley Wylie Stateman & Scott Martin Gershin (supervising sound editors); Dino Dimuro, Scott Sanders, Dan Hegeman & Bob Beher (sound effects editors); Harry Cohen & Kerry Ann Carmean (sound designers); Craig S. Jaeger (foley editor)

2004 Nominated Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing in a Feature - Music - Feature Film Jay B. Richardson (music editor)

Online Film Critics Society Awards

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Actress Uma Thurman

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Art Direction

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Cinematography Robert Richardson

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Costume Design

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Director Quentin Tarantino

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Original Score RZA

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Picture

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Screenplay, Original Quentin Tarantino

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Sound

2004 Nominated OFCS Award Best Visual Effects

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

2004 Nominated PFCS Award Best Film Editing Sally Menke

2004 Nominated PFCS Award Best Visual Effects Howard Berger & Gregory Nicotero

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

2003 Won SDFCS Award Best Editing Sally Menke

Sant Jordi Awards

2005 Won Sant Jordi Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) Quentin Tarantino. Also for: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004). Tied with 2046 (2004)

Satellite Awards

2004 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Art Direction Yohei Taneda, David Wasco & Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

2004 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Screenplay, Original Quentin Tarantino & Uma Thurman

2004 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Sound Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga & Wylie Stateman

2004 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Visual Effects Howard Berger & Gregory Nicotero

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival

2003 Won Audience Award Best Feature Film Quentin Tarantino. Tied with Zatoichi (2003)

World Stunt Awards

2004 Nominated Taurus Award Best Fight Zoe Bell & Angela Meryl. Two stunt women fight in a suburban living room using martial arts techniques and props such as knives. They crash into glass furniture and walls, taking hard hits all around.

2004 Nominated Taurus Award Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman Zoe Bell & Angela Meryl. Two stunt women fight in a suburban living room using martial arts techniques and props such as knives. They crash into glass furniture and walls, taking hard hits all around.

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Kill Bill is the fourth film by writer-director Quentin Tarantino. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two separate volumes (in Autumn 2003 and Spring 2004) due to its running time of approximately four hours. The movie is an epic-length revenge drama, with homages to earlier film genres, such as Hong Kong martial arts movies, Japanese samurai movies and Italian spaghetti westerns; an extensive use of popular music and pop culture references; and deliberate over-the-top violence.

Uma Thurman was offered the script to Kill Bill, and her role as "The Bride", as a 30th Birthday present from Quentin Tarantino.

Christopher Allen Nelson, who worked on the special effects, revealed in interview that over 450 gallons of fake blood were used on the two Kill Bill movies.

The closing title card, "Based on the character of 'The Bride' created by Q and U", refers to the first initials of Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman.

The Japanese symbols on the background of the poster spell "kirubiru" which is the Japanese spelling for "Kill Bill".

The shot where the Bride splits a baseball in two with a samurai sword was done for real on the set. It was done by Zoe Bell, Uma Thurman's stunt double.

David Carradine is only heard in the film, never seen (bar his hands in the opening scene).

Title Card: Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Hattori Hanzo: Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, And like a forest it's easy to lose your way... To get lost... To forget where you came in.

O-Ren Ishii: Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords.

Budd: That woman deserves her revenge and we deserve to die.

Elle Driver: I might never have liked you. Point of fact, I despise you. But that doesn't suggest I don't respect you. Dying in our sleep is a luxury our kind is rarely afforded. My gift to you.

Kill Bill: Volume 1 shows Quentin Tarantino so effortlessly and brilliantly in command of his technique that he reminds me of a virtuoso violinist racing through "Flight of the Bumble Bee" -- or maybe an accordion prodigy setting a speed record for "Lady of Spain." Reviewed by: Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times.

In Kill Bill, Tarantino brings delicious sin back to movies -- the thrill you get from something down, dirty and dangerous. Reviewed by: Peter Travers of Rolling Stone.

An overstuffed menu from a master chef who's trying way too hard to please himself.
Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick of the New York Post.

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