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FILM DIRECTOR

David O. Russell

1958 - Today

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David Owen Russell (born August 20, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. His early directing career includes 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David O. Russell has received more than 4,280,422 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). David O. Russell is the 696th most popular film director (down from 590th in 2019), the 4,500th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,808th in 2019) and the 175th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, David O. Russell ranks 696 out of 1,581Before him are Chang Cheh, Jaromil Jireš, Nicolas Winding Refn, Fred Niblo, John Stagliano, and James Mangold. After him are Vilgot Sjöman, Rudolph Maté, Bruno Mattei, Claude Miller, Jeannot Szwarc, and Bruce Beresford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, David O. Russell ranks 120Before him are Greg Mankiw, Oscar Schmidt, Lakhdar Belloumi, Phạm Minh Chính, Bertrand Piccard, and Kim Coates. After him are Samira Said, Natalya Estemirova, Michael Paré, Sergey Litvinov, Viacheslav Fetisov, and Alain Chabat.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David O. Russell ranks 4,500 out of 18,182Before him are Roderick MacKinnon (1956), J. J. Johnson (1924), Christine Jorgensen (1926), Jack Sharkey (1902), John Stagliano (1951), and James Mangold (1963). After him are Francis Scott Key (1779), Jason Scott Lee (1966), Imogen Cunningham (1883), Robert Byrd (1917), Lance Reddick (1962), and Philip Bosco (1930).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, David O. Russell ranks 175Before him are W. S. Van Dyke (1889), David Zucker (1947), Henry Selick (1952), Fred Niblo (1874), John Stagliano (1951), and James Mangold (1963). After him are Richard Linklater (1960), William Cameron Menzies (1896), Matt Reeves (1966), Robert Z. Leonard (1889), Billy Hayes (1947), and Emile Ardolino (1943).

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