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James Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975), better known

as Richard Kelly, is an American film director and writer, known for writing and directing the cult classic Donnie Darko in 2001.

Early Life[]

Kelly was born James Richard Kelly in Newport News, Virginia, the son of Lane and Ennis Kelly.[1] He grew up in Midlothian, Virginia, where he attended Midlothian High Schooland graduated in 1993.[2] When he was a child, his father worked for NASA on the Mars Viking Lander program. He won a scholarship to the University of Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He made two short films at USC, The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter, before graduating in 1997.[3]

Film Career[]

Donnie Darko was his first feature and was nominated for 21 small awards, winning 11 of them, including a nomination for a Saturn Award. The film later ended up #2 on Empiremagaz

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James Richard Kelly (born 1975) is an American writer-director, best known for his debut feature, the science-fiction cult classic "Donnie Darko"(2001).

Kelly was born in Newport News, Virginia, the son of Lane and Ennis Kelly. He won a scholarship to the University of Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television. He made two short films at USC, "The Goodbye Place" and "Visceral Matter", before graduating in 1997.

"Donnie Darko" was his first feature and was nominated for 21 awards, winning 11 of them, including a nomination for a Saturn Award. The film later ended up #2 on Empire magazine's list of 50 greatest independent films of all time, behind Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs".

Kelly wrote the screenplay for Tony Scott's biographical crime thriller "Domino" (2005), and went on to write and direct the postmodern L.A. satire "Southland Tales" (2006) and the science-fiction mystery "The Box" (2009), inspired by "The Twilight Zone" episode "Button, Button". Although his three films differ considerably in setting and characters, they share

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The Cult of Richard Kelly

By Joan Tupponce

Ten years ago, Beth Grant shrugged at the thought of putting off her vacation to read yet another script from a young, unknown filmmaker. A prolific character actress who has starred in more than 70 movies, working with big-name directors such as Clint Eastwood and the Coen Brothers, Grant thought the script, for a movie titled Donnie Darko , was just another teen flick.

“I read the first page, the second, and by the third page, my heart started to beat faster,” she remembers. “I said, ‘This is a new voice, a special voice.’ I’ve read a lot of scripts, but by the time I got to the end of this one, I was standing in my bed. He was a genius.”

The genius in question? 1993 Midlothian High School grad Richard Kelly.

“Richard is someone who is a true artist with a unique voice,” says Grant, who went on to appear in Kelly’s first two films. “He is creating myths and legends.”

What the director, now 34, hopes to create with his latest film, The Box , a psychological