2017–18 film awards season
The 2017 – 18 film awards season began in November 2017 with the Gotham Independent Film Awards 2017 and ended in March 2018 with the 90th Academy Awards.
Jack Smight
John R. Smight( March 9, 1925 – September 1, 2003) was an American theatre and film director.
His film credits include" The Traveling Executioner No Way to Treat a LadyRabbit, RunLoving Couples MidwayHarperAirport 1975 Damnation Alley" and the" Columbo" episode" Dead Weight".
Muriel Hutchison
Muriel Hutchison( February 10, 1915 – March 24, 1975) was an American actress.
A stage actress in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, she also appeared in the films" Partners in Crime ...
One Third of a Nation ... The WomenAnother Thin Man" and" Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President".
Broadway plays in which Hutchison appeared included" The Vigil"( 1948)," Proof Thro' the Night"( 1942)," The Land Is Bright"( 1941)," The Man Who Came to Dinner"( 1939)," Lightnin"'( 1938)," Merely Murder"( 1937)," The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse"( 1937), and" The Sap Runs High"( 1936).
She died of cancer on March 24, 1975, in Manhattan, New York City, New York at age 60.
Ho Ping
Ho Ping( born 1958) is a Taiwanese film director.
Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, he studied chemical engineering at Tunghai University before moving to the United States to earn an MFA from Syracuse University.
Upon graduation, Ho returned to Taiwan in 1987, and released his directorial debut" The DiggerYin jian xiang ma")( 1988).
The next year, he won the Special Jury Prize at the 25th Golden Horse Awards with" The Suona Player Chui gu chui", also known as" For whom the Suona Blows").
Both" The Digger" and" The Suona Player" were film adaptions of short stories written by Wang Ben- hu.
According to director Daw- Ming Lee, his films share a" bitter tone of absurdity," and Ho is influenced by Jean- Pierre Melville, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Shūji Terayama, and Luis Buñuel.
Ho has won a number of awards throughout his career, including the International Federation of Film Critics Award, the Don Quixote Prize of the International Federation of Film Societies, and the Special Jury Prize at the Golden Horse Awards twice.
He has also directed television shows and commercials, largely between 2002 and 2007, and between filming" Sweet Revenge"( 2007) and" Battle Up"( 2015), Ho taught full- time at National Taiwan University of Arts.
Partners in Crime (American TV series)
Partners in Crime is an American crime drama television series set in San Francisco, California, created by William Driskill, that aired on NBC from September 27 to December 29, 1984 during the 1984 – 85 U.S. television season.
NBC cancelled the show after 13 episodes.
It was screened overseas as" Fifty/ Fifty", to avoid confusion with the British series" Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime" which was also shown on ITV in the United Kingdom.
Partners in Crime (1973 film)
Partners in Crime is a 1973 American TV movie directed by Jack Smight.
It was the pilot for a prospective series about a judge who becomes a private investigator.
NBC did not pick it up as a series but the pilot screened as a stand alone movie.
18 (film)
18 is a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film directed by Ho Ping, written by Ho Ping and Kuo Cheng, based on Kuo Cheng's 1991 short story" God's Dice"( 上帝的骰子).
The title refers to a popular Taiwanese gambling game played with 4 dice in a rice bowl, with the highest combination( called" 18") containing 2 sixes and 2 of any identical number not six( i.e. 1166, 2266, 3366, 4466, and 5566).
Partners in Crime
Partners in Crime may refer to:
Partners in Crime (2014 film)
Partners in Crime is a 2014 Taiwanese crime film directed by Chang Jung- chi.
It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.

Question: Do both directors of films Partners In Crime (1973 Film) and 18 (Film) share the same nationality?
Answer: no