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Birthday: August 20, 1958
One of independent cinema's most successful purveyors of familial dysfunction, writer, producer, and director David O. Russell first thrust his vision into the faces of filmgoers with his 1994 film Spanking the Monkey. A darkly hilarious account of a young man's sexually torturous and seemingly interminable summer "vacation" spent in the company of his bored and bedridden mother, the film ...more
- 1999
- National Society of Film Critics
- Best Director (Runner-up)
- Three Kings
- win
- 1999
- Writers Guild of America
- Best Original Screenplay
- Three Kings
- nom
- 1996
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Best Director
- Flirting With Disaster
- nom
- 1996
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Best Screenplay
- Flirting With Disaster
- nom
- 1994
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Best First Feature
- Spanking the Monkey
- win
- 2010
- Nailed
- Director
- 2010
- The Fighter
- Director
- 2010
- Nailed
- Screenwriter
- 2009
- The Grackle
- Director
- 2004
- Soldiers Pay
- Director
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