Quentin Tarantino Says 'Selma' "Deserved An Emmy," Was Disappointed To Lose Oscar To 'The Hurt Locker'

While Quentin Tarantino is spending the fall cementing his love of film over digital with the 70mm release of "The Hateful Eight," and uh, watching VHS tapes over streaming on Netflix, the director has also spent his press time throwing shade. He stated that David Robert Mitchell's "It Follows" was good but not great, and that he was bored by the first season "True Detective," not even making it past the first episode. And while Tarantino is more than entitled to his opinion, he's starting to tread a fine line between commenting on the state of American cinema, and kind of being a jerk. And he veers towards the latter in a recent interview with The New York Times Style Magazine.

Chatting it up with Bret Easton Ellis, the duo cover a lot of ground in the piece, but Tarantino's comments on Ava DuVernay's "Selma" are certainly going to raise the most eyebrows. "She did a really good job on ‘Selma’ but ‘Selma’ deserved an Emmy," he said,...