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Director Quentin Tarantino was presented with the American Riviera Award, which recognizes an artist who has had a strong influence on American Cinema, by Moet & Chandon at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Quentin celebrated the honor backstage in the Moet Lounge with a mini bottle of Moet, sans the flute.

The super-duper talented and eccentric director told fellow guests that the flute atop the mini champagne reminded him of a shot glass, so he pulled it out and drank directly from the bottle. Sounds more like Quentin Unchained than Django Unchained.

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To celebrate the director’s big award Moet presented him with a crystallized jeroboam of Moet Imperial, which he said was going straight to his bar at home.