Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
John Farrell (businessman)
John Farrell is the director of YouTube in Latin America.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
White Nights (1985 film)
White Nights is a 1985 American drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini.
It was choreographed by Twyla Tharp and shot in Finland, Portugal, Austria, as well as in the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.
The title refers to the sunlit summer nights of Leningrad, the setting for the majority of the film, situated near the Arctic Circle.
The film is notable both for the dancing of Hines and Baryshnikov and for the Academy Award–winning song "
Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie in 1986, as well as
"Separate Lives" performed by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin and written by Stephen Bishop (also nominated).
Taylor Hackford met his future wife, Academy Award–winning actress Helen Mirren, during the filming of "White Nights".
White Nights (1959 film)
White Nights is a 1959 Soviet drama film directed by Ivan Pyryev.
Taylor Hackford
Taylor Edwin Hackford (born December 31, 1944) is an American film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America.
He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for "Teenage Father" (1979).
Hackford went on to direct a number of highly regarded feature films, most notably "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982) and "Ray" (2004), the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev(" Gergity Abisaly Fyrt Valeri"; born 2 May 1953), is a Russian conductor and opera company director of Ossetian origin.
He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
White Nights (1957 film)
White Nights is a 1957 Italian film directed by Italian neorealist Luchino Visconti.
The movie takes its title and basic plot from Fyodor Dostoevsky ’s 1848 short story" White Nights."
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.

Question: Which award the director of film White Nights (1985 Film) got?
Answer: Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film