Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Sam Wood
Samuel Grosvenor Wood( July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director and producer, who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as" A Night at the OperaA Day at the RacesGoodbye, Mr. Chips", and" The Pride of the Yankees".
He was also involved in a few acting and writing projects.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
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.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Broadcast News (film)
Broadcast News is a 1987 American romantic comedy- drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks.
The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer( Holly Hunter), who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter( Albert Brooks) and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival( William Hurt).
It also stars Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, and Jack Nicholson( billed only in the end credits) as the evening news anchor.
In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
James L. Brooks
James Lawrence Brooks( born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter, who helped create a string of acclaimed productions in television and the movies, including" The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Simpsons Broadcast News", and" Terms of Endearment".
While growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing.
After dropping out of New York University, he got a job as an usher at CBS, going on to write for the CBS News broadcasts.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to work on David L. Wolper's documentaries.
After being laid off he met producer Allan Burns who secured him a job as a writer on the series" My Mother the Car".
Brooks wrote for several shows before being hired as a story editor on" My Friend Tony" and later created the series" Room 222".
Grant Tinker hired Brooks and Burns at MTM Productions to create" The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in 1970.
The show, one of the first to feature an independent working woman as its lead character, was critically acclaimed and won Brooks several Primetime Emmy Awards.
Brooks and Burns then created two successful spin- offs from" Mary Tyler MooreRhoda"( a comedy) and" Lou Grant"( a drama).
Brooks left MTM
Productions in 1978 to co-create the sitcom" Taxi" which, despite winning multiple Emmys, suffered from low ratings and was canceled twice.
Brooks moved into feature film work when he wrote and co-produced the 1979 film" Starting Over".
His next project was the critically acclaimed film" Terms of Endearment", which he produced, directed and wrote, winning an Academy Award for all three roles.
Basing his next film," Broadcast News", on his journalistic experiences, the film earned him a further two Academy Award nominations.
Although his 1994 work" I'll Do Anything" was hampered by negative press attention due to the cutting of all of its recorded musical numbers," As Good as It Gets"( co- written with Mark Andrus) earned further praise.
It was seven years until his next film, 2004's" Spanglish".
His sixth film," How Do You Know", was released in 2010.
Brooks also produced and mentored Cameron Crowe on" Say Anything ..."( 1989) and Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson on" Bottle Rocket"( 1996).
In 1984, Brooks founded the television and film company, Gracie Films.
Although he did not intend to do so, Brooks returned to television in 1987 as the producer of" The Tracey Ullman Show".
He hired cartoonist Matt Groening to create a series of shorts for the show, which eventually led to" The Simpsons" in 1989.
" The Simpsons" won numerous awards and is still running.
Brooks also co-produced and co-wrote the 2007 film adaptation of the show," The Simpsons Movie".
In total, Brooks has received 53 Emmy nominations, winning 21 of them.
A Night at the Opera (film)
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Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring the Marx Brothers, and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King.
It was the first of five films the Marx Brothers made for Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer after their departure from Paramount Pictures, and the first after Zeppo left the act.
The film was adapted by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind from a story by James Kevin McGuinness, with additional dialogue by Al Boasberg.
It was directed by Sam Wood.
A smash hit at the box office," A Night at the Opera" was selected in 1993 for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
It is also included in the 2007 update of AFI's 100 Years ...
100 Movies, at number 85; and previously in AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs 2000 showing, at number 12.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.

Question: Are director of film A Night At The Opera (Film) and director of film Broadcast News (Film) both from the same country?
Answer: yes