Both Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle got Oscar nods for Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress. That is as good as it gets for the actors in a film.
Before Silver Linings Playbook, the last film to do that was Reds in 1981. Russell is the only director to...
It's not a new concept for directors to work with the same actors repeatedly, even within the same genre. In fact, it's quite common among the best in the business. To name a few:
Martin Scorsese
Woody Allen
Edgar Wright
Alfred Hitchcock
Christopher Nolan
Akira Kurosawa
Tim Burton
Quentin...