Claim: Christian Bale acted in American films.
Evidence: He has since gained further acclaim as well as subsequent Academy Award , Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe nominations for his roles in Russell 's American Hustle -LRB- 2013 -RRB- and Adam McKay 's The Big Short -LRB- 2015 -RRB-.
American Hustle is a 2013 American black comedy-crime film directed by David O. Russell.
The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Adam McKay and written by McKay and Charles Randolph , based on the 2010 book The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis about the financial crisis of 2007 -- 2008 which was triggered by the United States housing bubble.