David Mamet Reviews

David Mamet's many plays include Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award), American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, Boston Marriage, November, Race and The Anarchist. He wrote the screenplays for such films as The Verdict, The Untouchables and Wag the Dog, and has been nominated for the Academy Award. He directed and has written ten films, including Homicide, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, House of Redbelt, Spartan and Games. In addition, he also wrote the novels The Village, The Old Religion, Wilson and many books of nonfiction, such as Bambi vs. Godzilla: On The Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business; Theatre; Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama and the New York Times bestseller The Secret Knowledge: About the Dismantling of American Culture. His HBO movie Phil Spector, starring Helen Mirren and Al Pacino, got him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing and aired in 2013. He had been co-creator and also executive producer of the CBS tv series The Unit and also is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company.

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