James Richard Kelly was born March 28 in 1975. Richard is an American film director and writer, best known for writing and directing the cult classic Donnie Darko in 2001.
The film Donnie Darko was given a budget of only $4.5 million. This was his first feature and was nominated for 21 small awards, winning 11 of them, including a nomination for a Saturn Award. This film was then later number 2 on Empire Magazine's list of 50 greatest independent films of all time.
Richard Kelly's fourth film and second feature, Southland Tales, a rough cut of which screened in competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, was released November 16, 2007. In this film was a numerous amount of stars such as, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Kevin Smith and Miranda Richardson.
Even though Richard Kelly's films differ between characters and settings, they all share the same themes of time travelling, existentialism and spirituality.
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