
Person
David O. Russell
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Aug 20, 1958
- From
- New York City, New York, USA
David Owen Russell (born August 20, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He has earned numerous accolades including two British Academy Film Awards, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for five Academy Awards. Russell started his career directing the dark comedy films Spanking the Monkey (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Three Kings (1999), and I Heart Huckabees (2004). He gained critical success with the biographical sports drama The Fighter (2010), the romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and the dark comedy crime film American Hustle (2013). The three films were commercially successful and acclaimed by critics, earning him three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, as well as a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for Silver Linings Playbook and a Best Original Screenplay nomination for American Hustle. Russell received his seventh Golden Globe nomination for the semi-biographical comedy-drama Joy (2015). He also directed the comedic mystery thriller Amsterdam (2022). Across his career, Russell has been widely noted for combative and abusive behavior towards crew members and actors in his films, including documented incidents with George Clooney, Lily Tomlin, Amy Adams, Christopher Nolan, and Christian Bale. Description above from the Wikipedia article David O. Russell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Adaptation.

Divine Trash

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

Hal

Students of 'The Graduate'

SEGAL

The Making of American Hustle

Students of 'The Graduate'

I ♥ Huckabees

Flirting with Disaster

Three Kings

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: Live at the El Mocambo

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie

Hairway to the Stars

The Fighter

Spanking the Monkey