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53921, There's a number of factors here.
Posted by Ryan M, Thu Apr-12-07 02:13 AM
I'll just go ahead and ditch my Tarantino bias for a second.

1. Box Office:

QT -
Reservoir Dogs: $2,687,008 (USA) (7 March 1993)
Pulp Fiction: $107,928,762 (USA) (sub-total)
Jackie Brown: $39,647,595 (USA) (22 March 1998)
Kill Bill Vol. 1: $70,098,138 (USA) (23 May 2004)
Kill Bill Vol. 2: $66,207,920 (USA) (22 August 2004)
Grindhouse*: $13,848,178 (11 April 2007)

* = I'm counting this one in the QT camp even though he's only responsible for half of it.

Night -

Wide Awake: $258,212 (USA) (5 April 1998)
The Sixth Sense: $293,501,675 (USA) (14 May 2000)
Unbreakable: $94,999,143 (USA) (15 April 2001)
Signs: $227,965,690 (USA) (2 February 2003)
The Village: $114,195,633 (USA) (28 November 2004)
Lady in the Water: $42,272,747 (USA) (24 September 2006)

The Winner: Night by a longshot.



2. Awards -

QT: 1 Oscar (Best Original Screenplay - Pulp Fiction), Nominated for 2 Academy Awards (Best Original Screenplay - Pulp Fiction, Best Director - Pulp Fiction). 0 Emmys, 1 Emmy Nomination (Outstanding Direction - CSI). 1 Golden Globe (Best Screenplay - Pulp Fiction), 2 Golden Globe Nominations (Best Screenplay - Pulp Fiction, Best Director - Pulp Fiction)

Night: 0 Oscars, Nominated for 2 Academy Awards (Best Director - Sixth Sense, Best Original Screenplay - Sixth Sense). 0 Golden Globes, Nominated for 1 Golden Globe (Best Screenplay - Sixth Sense)

Both of their breakthrough films were nominated for Best Picture in the year they were released, neither of them won.

The Winner: QT.



3. Critical Acclaim (via RottenTomatoes.com) -

QT:
Reservoir Dogs - 95%
Pulp Fiction - 96%
Jackie Brown - 85%
Kill Bill Vol. 1 - 84%
Kill Bill Vol. 2 - 85%
Grindhouse - 82%

Night:

Wide Awake - 43%
The Sixth Sense - 84%
Unbreakable - 67%
Signs - 75%
The Village - 43%
Lady in the Water - 24%

The Winner: QT



4. Career Outside of Writing/Directing Feature Films:

This one is obviously subjective, but I think you've gotta give it to Tarantino. He's done more writing (From Dusk Till Dawn, True Romance, Natural Born Killers), other directing (CSI, Four Rooms, Sin City), and the big one: producing. He's brought over some films that have done extremely well over here such as Iron Monkey and Hero and then was instrumental in bringing us Hostel (which I haven't seen but it killed at the box office). Night has stuck to his films...which is obviously fine, but not as profitable.

The Winner: QT.



5. The Less Annoying One:

The Winner: Night.



6. The Better Actor:

The Winner: Neither.