Michael W. Punke (born December 7, 1964) is an American writer, novelist, professor, policy analyst, policy consultant, attorney, and former Deputy United States Trade Representative and US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
 He is currently the Vice President of Public Policy for Amazon Web Services.
 He is best known for writing "The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge" (2002), which was adapted into film as "The Revenant" (2015), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, with a screenplay by Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.
Aoife McArdle is an Irish writer and director.
 Her work includes music videos for Jon Hopkins and U2 as well as television commercials for Honda, Samsung and Under Armour (with Bryce Harper and Cam Newton).
 Her video for the U2 song 'Every Breaking Wave' was nominated for Best International Music Video at the UK Music Video Awards 2015 and was publicly praised by Academy award winning directors Terry George, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Spike Jonze.
 She was nominated for Best Director at the UK Music Video Awards in 2014 and nominated for Best Director at the Ciclope Festival 2016 .
 Her first feature-length film, 'Kissing Candice', premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8th September 2017.
Biutiful is a 2010 Mexican-Spanish drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem.
 It is González Iñárritu's first feature since "Babel" and fourth overall, and his first film in his native Spanish language since his debut feature "Amores perros".
 The title "Biutiful" refers to the phonological spelling in Spanish of the English word "beautiful".
Bryce David Dessner (born April 23, 1976) is an American composer and guitarist based in Paris, best known as a member of the Grammy Award-nominated band The National.
 Dessner has also made a name for himself as an acclaimed composer.
 His orchestral, chamber, and vocal compositions have been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (for the New York Philharmonic), Kronos Quartet, BAM Next Wave Festival, Barbican Centre, Edinburgh International Festival, Sydney Festival, eighth blackbird, Sō Percussion, New York City Ballet, and many others.
 His work "Murder Ballades" featured on eighth blackbird's album "Filament", an album he also produced and performs on, won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.
 Bryce has worked with some of the world's most creative and respected musicians and visual artists, including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Jonny Greenwood, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Justin Peck, Ragnar Kjartansson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marcel Dzama and Matthew Ritchie, among others.
 Dessner is also the founder of the MusicNOW Festival, a founding member of the improvisatory instrumental group Clogs and co-founder of Brassland Records.
 He has a master's degree in music from Yale University.
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor.
 He won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of the jaded but morally upright police officer Javier Rodriguez in the film "Traffic" (2000).
 Del Toro's performance as ex-con turned religious fanatic in despair, Jack Jordan, in Alejandro González Iñárritu's "21 Grams" (2003) earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as well as a second Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination and a BAFTA Awards nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor.
 Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 films or shows, and produced over 44 films.
 His 1985 film "Out of Africa" won him Academy Awards for directing and producing; he was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
" (1969) and "Tootsie" (1982), in the latter of which he also appeared.
Babel is a 2006 drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast.
 The multi-narrative drama completes Iñárritu's "Death Trilogy", following "Amores perros" and "21 Grams".
 It is an international co-production among companies based in the United States and Mexico.
 The film portrays multiple stories taking place in Morocco, Japan, Mexico and the US.
Amores perros is a 2000 Mexican drama thriller film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga.
 "Amores perros" is the first installment in González Iñárritu's "Trilogy of Death", succeeded by "21 Grams" and "Babel".
 It is an anthology film constructed as a triptych: it contains three distinct stories connected by a car accident in Mexico City.
 The stories centre on a teenager in the slums who gets involved in dogfighting; a model who seriously injures her leg; and a mysterious hitman.
 The stories are linked in various ways, including the presence of dogs in each of them.
Alejandro González Iñárritu (] ; credited since 2014 as Alejandro G. Iñárritu; born August 15, 1963) is a Mexican film director, producer, and screenwriter.
 He is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing for "Babel" (2006).
Ryo Sugimoto Born in 1976.
 Sugimoto worked on number of films as an art assistant under Production Designer Mitsuo Harada and Yohei Taneda.
 Sugimoto joined NOUVELLE VAGUE Co.,Ltd .
 in 2005, has worked on films such as "AEGIS"and "Tokyo Tower" as a set designer and was the art director on "BABEL"(Dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu) which won the Art Excellence in Production Design Award(2006) from the Art Directors Guild.
 Sugimoto was the first Production Designer for Junji Sakamoto "Chameleon"(2007), and is the Production designer for "Map of the sounds of Tokyo" directed by Isabel Coixet.
 Sugimoto also provides designs for commercials, music videos and interiors,

Question: Have Alejandro González Iñárritu and Sydney Pollack both been nominated for an Academy Award?
Answer: yes