David Cavanagh
David Cavanagh was a British writer and music journalist.
He wrote for" Sounds, Select, Q, Uncut" and" Mojo."
His books included a history of Creation Records," My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize," and" Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty- Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life," about John Peel.
He was at one time an editor of" Select."
Cavanagh grew up in Northern Ireland.
He died by suicide in December 2018.
Jan Pascale
Jan Pascale is a set decorator who has won an Emmy and has been nominated for an Oscar.
She has worked on over 50 different TV shows and films since 1982.
She won her Emmy 2001 for the TV show" Boston Public".
She was nominated at the 2005 Academy Awards in the category of Best Art Direction.
She was nominated for the film" Good Night, and Good Luck", her nomination was shared with James D. Bissell.
Good Night, and Good Luck
Good Night, and Good Luck( stylized as good night, and good luck.) is a 2005 historical drama film directed by George Clooney, and starring David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, Clooney, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey, Jr., and Frank Langella.
The movie was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov( both of whom also have acting roles in the film), and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow( Strathairn) and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, especially relating to the anti-Communist Senator's actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Although released in black and white, it was filmed on color film stock, but on a grayscale set, and was color- corrected to black and white during post-production.
It focuses on the theme of media responsibility, and also addresses what occurs when the media offers a voice of dissent from government policy.
The movie takes its title( which ends with a period or full stop) from the line with which Murrow routinely signed off his broadcasts.
The film received critical acclaim for Clooney's direction, the writing, cinematography, production design, and performances( particularly Strathairn's).
It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Clooney and Best Actor for Strathairn.
James Ivory
James Francis Ivory( born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
For many years he worked extensively with Indian- born film producer Ismail Merchant, his domestic as well as professional partner, and with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
All three were principals in Merchant Ivory Productions, whose films have won six Academy Awards; Ivory himself has been nominated for four Oscars, winning one.
Ivory ’s most notable directorial work includes" A Room with a View"( 1986)," Maurice"( 1987)," Howards End"( 1992), and" The Remains of the Day"( 1993).
For his work on" Call Me by Your Name"( 2017), which he wrote and produced, Ivory won awards for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Writers Guild of America, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the Scripter Awards, among others.
Upon winning the Oscar and BAFTA at the age of 89, Ivory became the oldest- ever winner in any category for both awards.
Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization is a 54- minute color documentary based on the life and thoughts of Nirad C. Chaudhuri.
It was made in 1972 and was directed by James Ivory.
In this, Chaudhuri( who was then based in London and Oxford) expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective.
The film is available in the DVD sets of several Merchant Ivory films.
Christina Paakkari
Christina Paakkari is an audio engineer for Capitol Records and the recipient of a 2005 Grammy Award for her work on the Dianne Reeves album" Good Night, and Good Luck".
In Search of La Che
In Search of La Che is a Scottish spoof documentary film directed by Mark D. Ferguson.
The screenplay was written by Andy S. McEwan.
" In Search of La Che" premiered at the Glasgow Film Theatre on 9 November 2011.
Tom McCarthy (director)
Thomas Joseph McCarthy( born June 7, 1966) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor who has appeared in several films, including" Meet the Parents" and" Good Night, and Good Luck", and television series such as" The WireBoston PublicLaw& Order", and the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of" Saint Maybe".
McCarthy has received critical acclaim for his writing/ direction work for the independent films" The Station Agent"( 2003)," The Visitor"( 2007)," Win Win"( 2011), and" Spotlight"( 2015), the last of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, won McCarthy the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director.
Additionally, McCarthy co-wrote the film" Up"( 2009) with Bob Peterson and Pete Docter, for which they received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
McCarthy also wrote the film" Million Dollar Arm"( 2014) and served as a director and executive producer for the Netflix television series" 13 Reasons Why"( 2017).
George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney( born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and filmmaker.
He is the recipient of three Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, one for acting in" Syriana"( 2006) and the other for co-producing" Argo"( 2012).
In 2018, he was the recipient of the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.
Clooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the medical drama" ER" from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
While working on" ER", he began attracting a variety of leading roles in films, with his breakthrough role in" From Dusk till Dawn"( 1996), and the crime comedy" Out of Sight"( 1998), in which he first worked with director Steven Soderbergh, who would become a long- time collaborator.
In 1999, he took the lead role in" Three Kings", a well- received war satire set during the Gulf War.
In 2001, Clooney's fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy remake" Ocean's Eleven", the first of what became a trilogy, starring Clooney.
He made his directorial debut a year later with the biographical spy comedy" Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", and has since directed the historical drama" Good Night, and Good Luck"( 2005), the sports comedy" Leatherheads"( 2008), the political drama" The Ides of March"( 2011), and the war film" The Monuments Men"( 2014).
Clooney won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Middle East thriller" Syriana"( 2005), and subsequently earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller" Michael Clayton"( 2007) and the comedy- dramas" Up in the Air"( 2009) and" The Descendants"( 2011).
In 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller" Argo".
He has been nominated for Oscars in six different categories, a record he shares with Walt Disney.
In 2009, Clooney was included in" Time" annual Time 100 as one of the" Most Influential People in the World".
He is also noted for his political and economic activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31, 2008.
Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is married to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.
Layla AbdelRahim
Layla AbdelRahim is a Canadian comparatist anthropologist and anarchoprimitivist author, whose works on narratives of civilization and wilderness have contributed to the fields of literary and cultural studies, comparative literature, philosophy, animal studies, ecophilosophy, sociology, anarcho-primitivist thought, anarchism, epistemology, and critique of civilization, technology, and education.
She attributes the collapse in the diversity of bio-systems and environmental degradation to monoculturalism and the civilized ontology that explains existence in terms of anthropocentric utilitarian functions.
Her books" Children ’s Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness"( Routledge 2015) and" Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education"( Fernwood 2013) make a contribution to children ’s literary theory and a critique of education as rooted in the civilized need for the domestication of children as resources.

Question: Are both directors of films Adventures Of A Brown Man In Search Of Civilization and Good Night, And Good Luck from the same country?
Answer: yes