Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an American actor and former model.
 He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1991 film "The Prince of Tides".
 He went on to receive Academy Award nominations for "Affliction" (1998) and "Warrior" (2011).
 His other film appearances include "The Deep" (1977), "48 Hrs.
" (1982), "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (1986), "Another 48 Hrs.
" (1990), "Everybody Wins" (1990), "Cape Fear" (1991), "Lorenzo's Oil" (1992), "The Thin Red Line" (1998), "The Good Thief" (2002), "Hulk" (2003), "Hotel Rwanda" (2004), "Tropic Thunder" (2008), "A Walk in the Woods" (2015) and "The Ridiculous 6" (2015).
 He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for his role in the TV series "Graves" (2016–present).
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician.
 Lemmon was an eight time Academy Award nominee, with two wins.
 He starred in over 60 films, such as "Some Like It Hot", "The Apartment", "Mister Roberts" (for which he won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), "Days of Wine and Roses", "The Great Race", "Irma la Douce", "The Odd Couple" and its sequel 30 years later, "The Odd Couple II", (and other frequent collaborations with "Odd Couple" co-star Walter Matthau), "Save the Tiger" (for which he won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Actor), "The Out-of-Towners", "The China Syndrome", "Missing" (for which he won Best Actor at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Tuesdays with Morrie", "Grumpy Old Men", and "Grumpier Old Men".
American actor and director Morgan Freeman has had a prolific career on film, television and on the stage.
 His film debut was as an uncredited character in the Sidney Lumet–directed drama "The Pawnbroker" in 1964.
 Freeman also made his stage debut in the same year by appearing in the musical "Hello, Dolly!
" He followed this with further stage appearances in "The Niggerlovers" (1967), "The Dozens" (1969), "Exhibition" (1969), and the musical "Purlie" (1970–71).
 He played various characters on the children's television series "The Electric Company" (1971–77).
 Freeman subsequently appeared in the films "Teachers" in 1984, and "Marie" in 1985 before making his breakthrough with 1987's "Street Smart".
 His role earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
 Two years later he appeared in war film "Glory" (1989), and starred as Hoke Coleburn in the comedy-drama "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989).
 Freeman won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in the latter and also earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Papillon is an upcoming biographical film directed by Michael Noer.
 It is a remake of the 1973 film of the same name starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
 The original film was written by Dalton Trumbo based on the best-selling autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière.
Nay Toe (Burmese: နေတိုး ] ; born Nay Lin Aung on 9 September 1981) is a Myanmar Academy Award-winning film actor and a comedian with the Burmese traditional dance troupe Htawara Hninzi.
 He won his first Academy Award for best actor with the 2009 film " Moe Nya Einmet Myu" and won second academy award for best leading actor in 2015 in "Moe Nya Eate Mat Phyu" (မိုးညအိပ်မက်ဖြူ ).
 In 2015, he won his next Academy Award for best actor with "Nat Khat Mhar Tae Tite Pwal (နက္ခတ်မှားတဲ့ တိုက်ပွဲ)."
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-born Australian actor.
 He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film "Network", which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes.
 He was the first of two persons to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category, and coincidentally also the first of the two Australian actors to have done so, the other being Heath Ledger.
Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor, film producer and musician.
 Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia.
 He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film "Gladiator", directed by Ridley Scott, for which Crowe won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and 10 further nominations for best actor.
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally by his stage name Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, musician, producer, and comedian.
 He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film "Ray".
 The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film "Collateral".
 As of spring 2017, Foxx serves as host and executive producer of the new Fox game show "Beat Shazam".
Tom Cruise is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor role in the 1981 romantic drama "Endless Love".
 Two years later he made his breakthrough by starring in the romantic comedy "Risky Business" (1983), which garnered Cruise his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
 In 1986, Cruise played a fighter pilot in the Tony Scott-directed action drama "Top Gun" (the highest-grossing film that year), and also starred opposite Paul Newman in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama "The Color of Money".
 Two years later he played opposite Dustin Hoffman in the Academy Award for Best Picture-winning drama "Rain Man" (1988), and also appeared in the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture-winning romantic drama "Cocktail" (1988).
 In doing so Cruise became the first and only person as of 2014 to star in a Best Picture Oscar winner and a Worst Picture Razzie winner in the same year.
 His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the drama adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989).
 For his performance Cruise received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and a director, with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960.
 Hoffman has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters.
 He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1980 for "Kramer vs. Kramer", and in 1989 for "Rain Man".

Question: Who will direct the upcoming biological film Papillon which is a remake of a film of the same name starring the American actor who won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1980?
Answer: Michael Noer