Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 English-language Adventure Drama movie written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino and produced by Lawrence Bender under the banner of A Band Apart in collaboration with Studio Babelsberg and Visiona Romantica. The film tells an alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership?one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus, a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other planned by the British but ultimately conducted solely by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine. Inglourious basterds stars Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Br Hl and Nikki Rapp. Cinematography was done by Robert Richardson and editing by Sally Menke. The movie has a running time of 153 minutes. It was released on 17th September 2009 and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. Inglourious Basterds was made on a budget of $70 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $321 million. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by The Weinstein Company. At the 2010 Oscar Awards It won an award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Christoph Waltz). The film tells an alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership?one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus, a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other planned by the British but ultimately conducted solely by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine.