⁣Two years before the Civil War, Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, finds himself accompanying an unorthodox German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on a mission to capture the vicious Brittle brothers. Their mission successful, Schultz frees Django, and together they hunt the South's most-wanted criminals. Their travels take them to the infamous plantation of shady Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), where Django's long-lost wife (Kerry Washington) is still a slave.
Release date: December 25, 2012 (USA)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Box office: $425.4 million
Year set: 1858 newyorker.com
Awards: MTV Movie Award for Best Gut-Wrenching Performance, MORE
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures, The Weinstein Company