Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Wazir (film)
Wazir is a 2016 Indian crime thriller film directed by Bejoy Nambiar and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.
Written and edited by Abhijat Joshi and Chopra, the film stars Farhan Akhtar and Amitabh Bachchan in the lead roles alongside Aditi Rao Hydari and Manav Kaul.
Neil Nitin Mukesh and John Abraham make extended appearances.
The film's dialogue and additional dialogue were written by Abhijeet Deshpande and Gazal Dhaliwal, respectively.
The music was composed by several artists including Shantanu Moitra, Ankit Tiwari, Advaita, Prashant Pillai, Rochak Kohli and Gaurav Godkhindi, with the background score composed by Rohit Kulkarni.
Sanu Varghese served as the film's cinematographer.
Based on the original story by Chopra," Wazir" follows the story of a suspended Anti-Terrorism Squad officer who befriends a chess player who is a wheelchair user.
The idea of the film came to Chopra in the 1990s and he started writing it in English with Joshi over a period of four years starting in 2000.
It was supposed to be Chopra's first Hollywood film, with Dustin Hoffman playing the protagonist.
However, its producer died and the film was shelved for nearly eight years.
Chopra and Joshi later re-wrote the script so it could be produced as a Hindi film.
Principal photography began on 28 September 2014.
" Wazir" opened on 8 January 2016 to mixed to positive reviews from critics who particularly praised the action sequences and the performances of both Bachchan and Akhtar, but criticised the predictable nature of the film.
The film performed well at the box office, with approximate worldwide revenues of ₹ 78.69 crore( US$ 12 million).
Notorious (1946 film)
Notorious is a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.
It was shot in late 1945 and early 1946, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures in August 1946.
" Notorious" is considered by critics and scholars to mark a watershed for Hitchcock artistically, and to represent a heightened thematic maturity.
His biographer, Donald Spoto, writes that Notorious" is in fact Alfred Hitchcock's first attempt—at the age of forty- six—to bring his talents to the creation of a serious love story, and its story of two men in love with Ingrid Bergman could only have been made at this stage of his life."
In 2006," Notorious" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Bejoy Nambiar
Bejoy Nambiar( born 12 April 1979) is an Indian film director, and screenwriter known for his work in Bollywood.
He is mostly known for his critically acclaimed short films," Rahu" and" Reflections", starring Mohanlal.
He was the winner of Sony PIX ’ s Gateway to Hollywood, as the best director judged by Ashok Amritraj, Rajat Kapoor and Anurag Basu.
He marked his feature film debut with the thriller" Shaitan"( 2011).
His second feature film was a bilingual gangster- comedy film called" David".
His latest Bollywood film was Wazir( 2016), starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar.
He has also directed a short video' Sachinocalypse' for All India Bakchod.
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock,( 13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Known as" the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology" Alfred Hitchcock Presents"( 1955 – 1965).
His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph- cable company.
He made his directorial debut with the silent film" The Pleasure Garden"( 1925).
His first successful film,( 1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film," Blackmail", was the first British.
Two of his 1930s thrillers," The 39 Steps"( 1935) and" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century.
By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood.
A string of successful films followed, including" Rebecca"( 1940)," Foreign Correspondent"( 1940)," Suspicion"( 1941)," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943), and" Notorious"( 1946).
" Rebecca" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for" Lifeboat"( 1944) and" Spellbound"( 1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award.
The" Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear.
The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film" is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot.
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."
After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with" Strangers on a Train"( 1951) and" Dial M For Murder"( 1954).
By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time:" Rear Window"( 1954)," Vertigo"( 1958)," North by Northwest"( 1959), and" Psycho"( 1960) with the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations.
In 2012," Vertigo" replaced Orson Welles's" Citizen Kane"( 1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world- wide poll of hundreds of film critics.
By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943).
He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: Are director of film Wazir (Film) and director of film Notorious (1946 Film) both from the same country?
Answer: no