Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.
Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films.
He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer- director in film history.
His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship.
His silent films were more diverse in genre, among which included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
De Mille began his career as a stage actor in 1900.
He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer.
DeMille's first film," The Squaw Man"( 1914), was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood.
Its interracial love story made it commercially successful and it first publicized Hollywood as the home of the U.S. film industry.
The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor.
His first biblical epic," The Ten Commandments"( 1923), was both a critical and commercial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty- five years.
De Mille directed" The King of Kings"( 1927), a biography of Jesus, which gained approval for its sensitivity and reached more than 800 million viewers.
" The Sign of the Cross"( 1932) is said to be the first sound film to integrate all aspects of cinematic technique.
" Cleopatra"( 1934) was his first film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
After more than thirty years in film production, DeMille reached a pinnacle in his career with" Samson and Delilah"( 1949), a biblical epic which became the highest- grossing film of 1950.
Along with biblical and historical narratives, he also directed films oriented toward" neo-naturalism", which tried to portray the laws of man fighting the forces of nature.
He received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama" The Greatest Show on Earth"( 1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
His last and best known film," The Ten Commandments"( 1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the eighth- highest- grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation.
In addition to his Best Picture Awards, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d' Or( posthumously) for" Union Pacific"( 1939), a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
He was the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was named in his honor.
DeMille's reputation as a filmmaker has grown over time and his work has influenced many other films and directors.
Hanro Smitsman
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Peter Levin
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Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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Ümit Ünal
Ümit Ünal( born 14 April 1965 in Turkey), is a film director, screenwriter and author.
He is the scriptwriter for eight Turkish feature films including" Teyzem( My Aunt)"( 1986)," Hayallerim, Askim ve Sen( My Dreams, My Love and You)"( 1987).
His first feature film as a director is" 9" which won many awards in various film festivals and was the Official Turkish Entry for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
He wrote and directed seven feature films including Istanbul Tales( Anlat İstanbul), Ara, Gölgesizler( Shadowless), Ses( The Voice) and Nar( The Pomegranate).
He published four books.
He currently works as a freelance director/ writer, living in Istanbul.
Ian Barry (director)
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Rachel Feldman
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Ara (film)
Ara is a 2008 Turkish drama film directed by Ümit Ünal, starring Erdem Akakçe, Betül Çobanoğlu, Serhat Tutumluer, and Selen Uçer, all originally stage actors.
The film's plot spans a decade and evolves around the relations of two middle class, urban couples, Veli and Selda, Veli's business partner Ender and Gül.
Selda is romantically and sexually involved with Ender, while Gül and Veli are also in an extramarital relationship.
The film examines Turkey's financial and cultural turmoils of the past 20 years through these four middle- class people who search for their own places and stances in society, and through their romantic, friendly and treacherous relations.
The film is set in a single apartment, however, because the plot spans a decade, and the apartment is used as a set for music videos, commercials or TV serials, those images seep into the film's imagery while the decoration of the house continuously changes throughout.
The film was shot completely digitally in an 80 square meter( 861 square feet) flat at the Kuledibi neighbourhood in Beyoğlu, Istanbul.
The film's title" Ara" means" betweenspacedistance" in Turkish, and it is a reference to the main characters'" in between- ness" in society and their own relationships.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
The Squaw Man (1931 film)
The Squaw Man is an American 1931 pre-Code film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
It was his third time filming the same play, and it was the first version in sound.
It stars Warner Baxter in the leading role.

Question: Do director of film Ara (Film) and director of film The Squaw Man (1931 Film) have the same nationality?
Answer: no