Tarantino wins best screenplay Globe for ‘Django’

US director Quentin Tarantino poses with fans as he arrives on the red carpet for the UK premiere of the film Django Unchained in central London on January 10, 2013. AFP/LEON NEAL

LOS ANGELES – Quentin Tarantino won the best screenplay Golden Globe on Sunday for his blood-spattered spaghetti Western tribute “Django Unchained.”

“This is a damn surprise, and I’m happy to be surprised,” he said, accepting the award for his latest movie, starring Jamie Foxx as a freed slave who teams up with a dentist-turned-bounty hunter.

Tarantino was up against fellow nominees Mark Boal for “Zero Dark Thirty,” Tony Kushner for “Lincoln,” David O. Russell for “Silver Linings Playbook,” and Chris Terrio for “Argo.”

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