Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
John Donatich
John Donatich is the Director of Yale University Press.
The Stars Are Singing
The Stars Are Singing is a 1953 Paramount Pictures musical directed by Norman Taurog and starring Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Lauritz Melchior.
The screenplay concerns a 15-year-old Polish girl (played by Alberghetti) who attempts to enter the U.S. illegally, setting off a major search by immigration officials.
She is befriended by a struggling group of New York performers, who try to get approval for her to remain in the country.
Clooney performs her hit song "
Come On-a My House" and Danish tenor Lauritz Melchior
sings "
Vesti la giubba" from Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci" in this Technicolor production.
The film cost $1,264,337 and earned an estimated $1.6 million at the North American box office in 1953.
Michael Govan
Michael Govan( born 1963) is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2006.
Prior to this, Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City.
Norman Taurog
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.
The Stars Are Underground
The Stars Are Underground is a 24- minute film documenting the underground music scene in Dublin, Ireland, in 1996.
The film was first shown in the same year, 1996, and a VHS was released by Folkrum Records.
Directed by Daragh McCarthy, the film documents a generation of Irish bands who took their inspiration from American hardcore punk bands who, rather than pursuing major label deals, made their own self- financed records and released their own material.
The bands featured and interviewed include Female Hercules, The Mexican Pets, and The Jubilee Allstars.
The Stars are Underground also features interviews with Andy Cairns from Therapy?
and Dischord Records' Ian McKaye from the group Fugazi.
The film inspired Academy Award winning singer/ songwriter Glen Hansard of The Frames to write a song of the same name after he played on a tour of the film's screenings in rock venues in rural Ireland.
The Frames" The Stars Are Underground" appeared on their" Dance the Devil" album in 1999.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
John Farrell (businessman)
John Farrell is the director of YouTube in Latin America.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.

Question: What is the award that the director of film The Stars Are Singing received?
Answer: Academy Award for Best Director