Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Paweł Pawlikowski
Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski( born 15 September 1957) is a Polish filmmaker, who has lived and worked most of his life in the United Kingdom.
He garnered much acclaim for a string of award- winning documentaries in the 1990s and for his feature films" Last Resort" and" My Summer of Love", both of which won a BAFTA and many other European awards.
His film" Ida" won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
At the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize for his 2018 film" Cold War", a film which also earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film.
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.
Cold War (2018 film)
Cold War is a 2018 historical period drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Janusz Głowacki and Piotr Borkowski.
It is an international co-production by producers in Poland, France and the United Kingdom.
Set in Poland and France during the Cold War from the late 1940s until the 1960s, the story follows a musical director( Tomasz Kot) who discovers a young singer( Joanna Kulig), exploring their subsequent love story over the years.
The film, which was loosely inspired by the lives of Pawlikowski's parents, also features Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn and Jeanne Balibar in supporting roles.
" Cold War" premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival on 10 May 2018.
Critics praised its acting, screenplay, direction and cinematography.
The film has received numerous accolades, including three nominations at the 91st Academy Awards( Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography) and four at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards, including Best Direction and Best Film Not in the English Language.
John Waters
John Samuel Waters Jr.( born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor and artist.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Waters rose to prominence in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including" Multiple Maniacs"( 1970)," Pink Flamingos"( 1972) and" Female Trouble"( 1974).
He wrote and directed the 1988 film" Hairspray", which became an international success and turned into a hit Broadway musical which has remained in almost continuous production, and a film adaptation of the Broadway musical was released in July 2007.
Waters has written and directed other successful films including" Polyester"( 1981)," Cry- Baby"( 1990)," Serial Mom"( 1994)," Pecker"( 1998) and" Cecil B. Demented"( 2000).
In 2015, the British Film Institute celebrated Waters ’ films with a retrospective in honour of his 50 year- filmmaking career.
Later that year, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for the spoken word version of his book" Carsick."
As an actor, Waters has appeared in films such as" Sweet and Lowdown"( 1999)," Seed of Chucky"( 2004)," Mangus!"( 2011)," Excision"( 2012) and" Suburban Gothic"( 2014).
More recently, he performs in his ever- changing one- man show," This Filthy World".
In addition to filmmaking and acting, Waters also works as a visual artist and across different mediums such as installations, photography, and sculpture.
He has published multiple collections of his journalistic exploits, screenplays, ruminations and artwork.
Waters ’ artwork exhibits regularly in galleries and museums around the world.
Hairspray (1988 film)
Hairspray is a 1988 American comedy film written and directed by John Waters, and starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, Jerry Stiller, Leslie Ann Powers, Colleen Fitzpatrick, and Michael St. Gerard.
" Hairspray" was a dramatic departure from Waters's earlier works, with a much broader intended audience.
" Hairspray" s PG is the mildest rating a Waters film has received; most of his previous films were rated X by the MPAA.
Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film revolves around self- proclaimed" pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local TV show and rallies against racial segregation.
" Hairspray" was only a moderate success upon its initial theatrical release, earning a modest gross of$ 8 million.
However, it managed to attract a larger audience on home video in the early 1990s and became a cult classic.
The film received critical acclaim, although some were displeased with the overall campiness.
The film ranks# 444 on" Empire" magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.
In 2002, the film was adapted into a Broadway musical of the same name, which won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical in 2003.
A second film version of" Hairspray", an adaptation of the stage musical, was also released by New Line Cinema in 2007, which included many changes of scripted items from the original.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.

Question: Do director of film Cold War (2018 Film) and director of film Hairspray (1988 Film) have the same nationality?
Answer: no