Damien Sayre Chazelle ( ; born January 19, 1985) is an American director, screenwriter and producer.
 Chazelle made his directorial debut with the musical film "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" (2009).
 He rose to prominence for writing and directing his second feature film, "Whiplash" (2014), which received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
 His 2016 film "La La Land" was a critical and commercial success, winning all seven of its Golden Globe nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
 It also received a record-tying fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning six including Best Director, making Chazelle the youngest person in history to win the Oscar for Best Director and to win the Golden Globe for Best Director.
Away We Go is a 2009 comedy-drama directed by Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes and written by the husband-and-wife team of Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida.
 The film's two leads are John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph.
André Turpin (born 1965) is a Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter.
 He ia a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and sciences.
 As a cinematographer, he is a Bronze Frog winner for best cinematography at Camerimage international film festival for Mommy, Canadian screen award winner for best cinematography for Juste LA Fin Du Monde, two-time Genie Award winner for Best Cinematography, for "Maelström" at the 21st Genie Awards and for "Incendies" at the 31st Genie Awards, and a six-time winner of the Jutra Award for Best Cinematography, for "Maelström", "Incendies", "It's Not Me, I Swear!
 (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)"
, "Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)" and "Mommy" and Juste La Fin Du Monde, a winner of the Jutra Award for Best Director for Un Crabe Dans La Tête.
 He also won the Jutra Award for Best Screen Writing for Un Crabe Dans La Tête.
 As a director he is best known for "Un crabe dans la tête", which was Canada's submission to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards.
Samuel Alexander Mendes, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director.
 He is best known for directing the drama film "American Beauty" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film "Road to Perdition" (2002), and the "James Bond" films "Skyfall" (2012) and "Spectre" (2015).
Norman Rae Taurog (February 23, 1899 – April 7, 1981) was an American film director and screenwriter.
 From 1920 to 1968, Taurog directed 180 films.
 At the age of 32, he received the Academy Award for Best Director for "Skippy" (1931).
 He is the second youngest person ever to win the award after Damien Chazelle, who won for "La La Land" in 2017.
 He was later nominated for Best Director for the film "Boys Town" (1938).
 He directed some of the best-known actors of the twentieth century, including his nephew Jackie Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Elvis Presley.
 Taurog directed six Martin and Lewis films, and nine Elvis Presley films, more than any other director.
 For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Norman Taurog has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1600 Vine Street.
Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, known for his work on films including "Shallow Grave", "Trainspotting", "The Beach", "28 Days Later", "Sunshine", "Slumdog Millionaire", "127 Hours", and "Steve Jobs".
 His debut film "Shallow Grave" won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film.
 Boyle's 2008 film "Slumdog Millionaire" was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won eight, including the Academy Award for Best Director.
 He also won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Director.
 Boyle was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film Festival, where he also introduced that year's AFF Audience Award Winner "Slumdog Millionaire".
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)."
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film producer, and director of motion pictures and documentaries.
 Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of "Midnight Express" (1978).
 He also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie "Scarface" (1983).
 As a director, Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama "Platoon" (1986), for which Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director; the film was awarded Best Picture.
 "Platoon" was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier.
 He continued the series with "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989)—for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and "Heaven & Earth" (1993).
 Stone's other notable works include the Salvadoran Civil War-based drama "Salvador" (1986); the financial drama "Wall Street" (1987) and its 2010 sequel ""; the Jim Morrison biopic "The Doors" (1991); and a trilogy of films based on the American Presidency—"JFK" (1991), "Nixon" (1995) and "W." (2008).
 His latest film is "Snowden" (2016).
Fernando Ferreira Meirelles (born November 9, 1955) is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.
 His best known film is "City of God", released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films, which received international critical acclaim.
 For his work in the film, he was eventually nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.
 He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2005 for "The Constant Gardener", which garnered the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress to Rachel Weisz.
 He also directed the 2008 adaptation of José Saramago's novel "Blindness", and the 2011 film "360".
Paul Greengrass (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist.
 He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras.
 His early film "Bloody Sunday" won the Golden Bear at 52nd Berlin International Film Festival.
 Other films he has directed include three in the "Bourne" action/thriller series: "The Bourne Supremacy" (2004), "The Bourne Ultimatum" (2007), and "Jason Bourne" (2016); "United 93" (2006), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Director, and received an Academy Award for Best Director nomination, "Green Zone" (2010) and "Captain Phillips" (2013).
 In 2004 he co-wrote and produced the film "Omagh", which won British Academy Television Award.

Question: The 2009 film "Away We Go" was directed by a man that received an Academy Award for Best Director for what 1999 film?
Answer: American Beauty