Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained was released in 2012.
The film premiered in New York City on December 11, 2012, before its wider theatrical release later that month. It stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a formerly enslaved man who becomes a bounty hunter, and Christoph Waltz as Dr. King Schultz, the bounty hunter who helps him search for his wife.
Django Unchained is a revisionist Western influenced by the 1966 Italian film Django, directed by Sergio Corbucci. Tarantino’s film relocates the central revenge story to the American South two years before the Civil War and combines Western conventions with historical drama, action, and satire.
The 2012 release date can be confused with the film’s awards-season run, which continued into 2013. At the 85th Academy Awards in 2013, Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor and the film won Best Original Screenplay, but those ceremonies took place after the movie’s 2012 release.