Tarantino won the original screenplay prize for Django Unchained, adding to the Oscar he won for writing Pulp Fiction in 1994.
Christoph Waltz won his second Oscar for best supporting actor in a Quentin Tarantino film, this time for playing a German bounty hunter in the slave revenge story Django Unchained.
The Marvel film - released in the UK as Avengers Assemble - also beat Django Unchained, Skyfall, Ted and The Dark Knight Rises to win the best fight accolade.
The US premiere of Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained has been called off in the wake of last week's shootings in a Connecticut school.
The safest thing one could say about "Django Unchained" is that it finds Quentin Tarantino hurtling over the top yet again by juxtaposing the horrors of slavery with an absurdist, horse-opera buffa plot that quotes from all sorts of movies, including his own, with special emphasis on spaghetti westerns.
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Christoph Waltz was a bit of a surprise winner in the Best Supporting Actor category for Django Unchained and Quentin Tarantino won for Best Original Screenplay for Django.
Quentin Tarantino picked up the original screenplay award for "Django Unchained, " and Christoph Waltz was named best supporting actor for playing a loquacious bounty hunter in Tarantino's slave-revenge thriller.
The star of ABC's "Scandal" picked up a trio of trophies at the 44th annual ceremony: outstanding actress in a drama series for "Scandal, " supporting actress in a motion picture for "Django Unchained" and the President's Award, which is given in recognition of special achievement and exceptional public service.
Executives at Sony Pictures were shocked earlier this month when Chinese authorities pulled "Django Unchained" from theaters the day it started playing.
Django Unchained is released in the UK on Friday 18 January.
Other nominees in the PGA movie category were "Les Miserables, " "Zero Dark Thirty, " "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " "Django Unchained, " "Life of Pi, " "Moonrise Kingdom, " "Silver Linings Playbook, " and Skyfall.
Best Supporting Actor nominees are: Adam Arkin for Argo, Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook, Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln, Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master, and Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained.
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Film fans' favourite Quentin Tarantino also celebrated as he picked up the original screenplay Bafta for his western slavery epic, Django Unchained.
However, a number of other high-profile awards contenders - among them Django Unchained, Les Miserables and Beasts of the Southern Wild - have been ruled ineligible for this year's prizes.
"Django Unchained" and "Ted" are the top nominees in the irreverent competition, where fans vote online for the winners in categories such as best fight, best kiss and best shirtless performance.
Warner Bros. already had its Oscar contender in Argo and star Leonardo DiCaprio had a shot at an Oscar nomination for Django Unchained, which was originally to open on the same day as The Great Gatsby.
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But don't count out Alan Arkin ("Argo"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln"), Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained") or even Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master").
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More recently, the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's award-winning slavery-era film Django Unchained featured Havens singing a version of Freedom.
"This award does not belong to me, " said Washington, who plays a slave separated from her husband in "Django Unchained, " as she picked up her first trophy of the evening for her role in the film directed by Quentin Tarantino.
The latest additions join previously announced jurors including We Need To Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay and Django Unchained actor Christoph Waltz.
The love shown "Amour" and "Beasts" meant that "Zero Dark Thirty, " "Django Unchained, " "Les Miserables" and "Argo" all fell short of expectations, particularly in the directing category.
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