Edward Zwick
Edward M. Zwick( born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker and producer of film and television.
He has worked primarily in the comedy- drama and epic historical film genres, including" About Last Night, Glory, Legends of the Fall," and" The Last Samurai."
He is also the co-creator of the television series" thirtysomething" and" Once and Again".
Zwick's prolific body of work has earned numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Picture, and Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series, and Outstanding Dramatic Special.
He has additionally been nominated for multiple Golden Globe Awards.
Glory (1989 film)
Glory is a 1989 American war film directed by Edward Zwick about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the Union Army's second African- American regiment in the American Civil War.
It stars Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the regiment's commanding officer, and Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, and Morgan Freeman as fictional members of the 54th.
The screenplay by Kevin Jarre was based on the books" Lay This Laurel" by Lincoln Kirstein and" One Gallant Rush" by Peter Burchard, and the personal letters of Shaw.
The film depicts the soldiers of the 54th from the formation of their regiment to their heroic actions at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner.
" Glory" was nominated for five Academy Awards and won three, including Best Supporting Actor for Washington.
It won many other awards from, among others, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the Golden Globe Awards, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the Political Film Society, and the NAACP Image Awards.
The film was co-produced by TriStar Pictures and Freddie Fields Productions, and distributed by Tri-Star Pictures in the United States.
It premiered in limited release in the United States on December 14, 1989, and in wide release on February 16, 1990, making$ 27 million on an$ 18 million budget.
The soundtrack, composed by James Horner and performed in part by Boys Choir of Harlem, was released on January 23, 1990.
The home video was distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
On June 2, 2009, a widescreen Blu- ray version, featuring the director's commentary and deleted scenes, was released.
Steven Rosenblum
Steven Rosenblum( born 1954) is an American film editor with about twenty feature film credits dating from 1987.
He has had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Edward Zwick, and has edited all of his films since" Glory"( 1989).
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Ronald Neame
Ronald Elwin Neame CBE BSC( 23 April 1911 – 16 June 2010) was an English film producer, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter.
Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film" One of Our Aircraft Is Missing"( 1943) he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Special Effects.
During a partnership with director David Lean, he produced" Brief Encounter"( 1945)," Great Expectations"( 1946), and" Oliver Twist"( 1948), receiving two Academy Award nominations for writing.
Neame then moved into directing, and some notable films included," The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"( 1969), which won Maggie Smith her first Oscar, and the action- adventure disaster film" The Poseidon Adventure"( 1972).
He also directed" I Could Go On Singing"( 1963), Judy Garland's last film, and" Scrooge"( 1970), starring Albert Finney, For his contributions to the film industry, in 1996 Neame was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire( CBE) and received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest award the British Film Academy can give a filmmaker.
Windom's Way
Windom's Way is a 1957 British thriller film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Peter Finch and Mary Ure.
Made in Eastman Color, it is set during the Malayan Emergency.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Australia (1989 film)
Australia is a 1989 film directed by Jean- Jacques Andrien.
Claude Weisz
Claude Weisz is a French film director born in Paris.
Strapless
Strapless is a 1989 film written and directed by David Hare.

Question: Which film has the director born first, Glory (1989 Film) or Windom'S Way?
Answer: Windom'S Way