Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson( born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the" Lord of the Rings" trilogy( 2001 – 03) and the" Hobbit" trilogy( 2012 – 14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Other films include the critically lauded drama" Heavenly Creatures"( 1994), the mockumentary film" Forgotten Silver"( 1995), the horror comedy" The Frighteners"( 1996), the epic monster remake film" King Kong"( 2005), the supernatural drama film" The Lovely Bones"( 2009), and the World War I documentary film" They Shall Not Grow Old"( 2018).
He produced" District 9"( 2009)," The Adventures of Tintin"( 2011)," West of Memphis"( 2012), and" Mortal Engines"( 2018).
He is the third- highest grossing film director, his films having made over$ 6.5 billion worldwide.
Jackson began his career with the" splatstick" horror comedy" Bad Taste"( 1987) and the black comedy" Meet the Feebles"( 1989) before filming the zombie comedy" Braindead"( 1992).
He shared a nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with his partner Fran Walsh for" Heavenly Creatures", which brought him to mainstream prominence in the film industry.
Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards for( 2003), including the award for Best Director.
His other awards include a Golden Globe, four Saturn Awards and three BAFTAs among others.
His production company is WingNut Films, and his most regular collaborators are co-writers and producers Walsh and Philippa Boyens.
Jackson was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002.
He was later knighted( as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit) by Anand Satyanand, the Governor- General of New Zealand, at a ceremony in Wellington in April 2010.
In December 2014, Jackson was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Edmund Goulding
Edmund Goulding( 20 March 1891 – 24 December 1959) was a British screenwriter and director.
As an actor early in his career he was one of the' Ghosts' in the 1922 silent film" Three Live Ghosts" alongside Norman Kerry and Cyril Chadwick.
Also in the early 1920s he wrote several screenplays for star Mae Murray for films directed by her then husband Robert Z. Leonard.
Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas such as" Love"( 1927)," Grand Hotel"( 1932) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford," Dark Victory"( 1939) with Bette Davis, and" The Razor's Edge"( 1946) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power.
He also directed the classic film noir" Nightmare Alley"( 1947) with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, and the action drama" The Dawn Patrol".
He was also a successful songwriter, composer, and producer.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Bad Taste
Bad Taste is a 1987 New Zealand science- fiction comedy horror splatter film directed, written, produced, photographed and co-edited by and co-starring Peter Jackson, who also made most of the makeup and special effects.
Produced on a low budget, it is Jackson's first feature film.
Jackson and friends take on most of the key roles, both on and off- screen.
The plotline sees aliens invade the fictional New Zealand village of Kaihoro to harvest humans for their intergalactic fast food franchise, where they face off against a four- man paramilitary force, of which at least one member appears to have gone insane.
It was a film that provided Jackson with the necessary leverage needed to advance in the industry.
Since its release," Bad Taste" has become a cult film and has received generally positive reviews.
Ben Cura
Ben Cura( born 30 September 1988) is a British- Argentine actor and director of film, television and theatre.
The Night Angel
The Night Angel is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film written and directed by Edmund Goulding.
The film stars Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Phoebe Foster, Alison Skipworth and Alan Hale, Sr..
The film was released on July 18, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.

Question: Do director of film The Night Angel and director of film Bad Taste share the same nationality?
Answer: no