Which 2012 Quentin Tarantino Western stars Jamie Foxx as Django Freeman?

The 2012 Quentin Tarantino Western starring Jamie Foxx as Django Freeman is Django Unchained.

Tarantino’s revisionist Western follows Django, an enslaved man who is freed and trained by German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. Together, they pursue criminals while Django searches for his wife, Broomhilda, who remains enslaved at the Candyland plantation. The story is set in the antebellum American South and blends Western conventions with a revenge narrative.

The film pays homage to Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 Italian Western Django, including its title and the casting of Franco Nero in a cameo. Despite that connection, it is not a remake. Common mix-ups include The Hateful Eight, another Tarantino Western, and True Grit, which is a different adaptation of Charles Portis’s novel.

Django Unchained was released in December 2012 and became Tarantino’s highest-grossing film at the time. Christoph Waltz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as Schultz, while Tarantino won Best Original Screenplay.