<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $155.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Hateful Eight (often marketed as The H8ful Eight) is a 2015 American Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino . It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern as eight strangers who seek refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover some time after the American Civil War . </P> <P> Tarantino announced The Hateful Eight in November 2013, having conceived it as a novel and sequel to his previous film Django Unchained (2012). After the script leaked in January 2014, he cancelled the film, directed a live reading of the script at the United Artists Theater in Los Angeles, then announced that he had changed his mind . Filming began on December 8, 2014, near Telluride, Colorado . The original score composed by Ennio Morricone, the first for a Tarantino film, was Morricone's first complete Western score in 34 years, and his first score for a high - profile Hollywood production since Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars in 2000 . </P> <P> Distributed by The Weinstein Company in the United States, The Hateful Eight was released on December 25, 2015, in a roadshow release in 70 mm film . It had a wide digital release on December 30, 2015 . It received positive reviews, with Leigh receiving considerable praise . For his work on the score, Morricone won the Golden Globe and his first Academy Award for Best Original Score . The film also earned Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Leigh) and Best Cinematography (Robert Richardson). </P>

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