“truly, without exception, the worst experience of my life.”
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David O. Russell
David Owen Russell 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.
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entertainment · American filmmaker (born 1958) · film producer · film director · screenwriter · writer · director · cinematographer · actor · also David O. Russell, David Russell, Russell
Born 20 August 1958 · Q314342
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2026· 5 entries
“I was so familiar with the issues in the story that I knew how emotional and funny and original it could be. Without this community I would never have made this film.”
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Public attention spiked: 3,285 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 868, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: 1987–1994: Early career and directorial debut no reference to this claim.
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Public attention spiked: 3,013 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 868, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 4,231 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.9× the usual 868, with 0 article edits.
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: What links David O Russell’s crime romp Amsterdam to Gloria Steinem and Bob Dylan?
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The Guardian: Amsterdam review – turn of the screwball in David O Russell’s starry muddle
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Mark Wahlberg and David O Russell reteam for biopic of boxer-turned-priest
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2015· 4 entries
The Guardian: David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’
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The Guardian: David O Russell on Joy: 'If you're going to live a fairytale you've got to go through the goblins' – video interview
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And the film, titled Joy, was released on December 25, 2015
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Before a limited release on March 20, 2015
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2014· 1 entry
Ghetto Film School opened its new branch in Los Angeles
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2013· 1 entry
Russell visited Washington, D
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2010· 1 entry
Russell returned with The Fighter, a biographical sports drama produced by and starring Mark Wahlberg
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2008· 1 entry
Resulting in IATSE shutting down production because the crew was not getting paid
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2003· 2 entries
At a party in Hollywood, where he put Nolan in a headlock
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It was reported that Jude Law dropped the film to star in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige (2006), but after Russell headlocked Nolan at a Hollywood party, demanding that "his fellow director show artistic solidarity and
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2002· 1 entry
From two students who introduced him to Joe Hall, president of Ghetto Film School
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1999· 1 entry
And was his biggest critical and financial success
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1987· 1 entry
Russell wrote, produced, and directed Bingo Inferno: A Parody on American Obsessions, a short film about an obsessive bingo-playing mother
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-08-20.
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