David O. Russell
Audiences rate David O. Russell’s films lower than 85% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): Silver Linings Playbook (ViX) · The Fighter (Hoopla, Pluto TV, Kanopy) · Flirting with Disaster (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Three Kings (Hoopla) · Accidental Love (Roku Channel, The CW, Fandango at Home, Pluto TV, Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Hoopla, Fawesome).
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The ThumbScore for David O. Russell (67.3%) is the average audience approval rating across 9 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of David's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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). Throughout his career, Russell has garnered controversy for being combative and abusive towards crew members and actors in his films. Incidents involving George Clooney, Lily Tomlin, Amy Adams, Christopher Nolan, and Christian Bale have been documented. Description above from the Wikipedia article David O. Russell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born 1958-08-20 in New York City, New York, USA.
On ThumbScore, David O. Russell appears in 10 films with an average audience score of 67.3%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
Sources: TMDB
