Robert Rodat
Robert Rodat is an American film and television writer and television producer.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Steven Spielberg's war epic" Saving Private Ryan".
Kittikorn Liasirikun
Kittikorn Liasirikun( born 1967), also known as Leo Kittikorn, is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer.
His films include" Bus Lane" and" Saving Private Tootsie".
Janusz Kamiński
Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński( born June 27, 1959) is a Polish cinematographer and director of film and television, who started his career in the United States.
He rose to fame in the 1990s with his work on" Schindler's List"( 1993).
He has established a partnership with Steven Spielberg, working as a cinematographer on his movies since 1993.
He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on" Schindler's List" and" Saving Private Ryan"( 1998).
In recent years, Kamiński has also moved into the field of directing, first with the horror film" Lost Souls", and later television series like" The Event" and" The Divide".
In 2019, the American Society of Cinematographers included" Schindler's List" and" Saving Private Ryan", both shot by Kamiński, on the list of the best- photographed films of the 20th century.
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.
Set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, the film is notable for its graphic portrayal of war and for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which includes a depiction of the Omaha Beach assault during the Normandy landings.
The film follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller( Tom Hanks) and his squad( Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan( Matt Damon), the last surviving brother of three servicemen killed in action.
The film is a co-production between DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, and Mutual Film Company, with DreamWorks distributing the film in North America while Paramount released the film internationally.
In 1996, producer Mark Gordon pitched Rodat's idea, which was inspired by the Niland brothers, to Paramount, which eventually began development on the project.
Spielberg, who at the time was forming DreamWorks, came on board to direct the project, and Hanks joined the cast.
After the cast went through training supervised by Marines veteran Dale Dye, the film's principal photography started in June 1997 and lasted two months.
The film's D- Day scenes were shot in Ballinesker Beach, Curracloe Strand, Ballinesker, just east of Curracloe, County Wexford, Ireland and used members of the army reserve of the Irish Army as infantry for the D- Day landing.
Released on July 24, 1998," Saving Private Ryan" received acclaim from critics and audiences for its performances( particularly from Hanks), realism, cinematography, score, screenplay, and Spielberg's directing.
A box office success, it was the highest- grossing film of 1998 in the United States with$ 216.8 million domestically and the second- highest- grossing film of 1998 worldwide with$ 481.8 million worldwide.
Additionally, it grossed$ 44 million from its release on home video in May 1999.
The film won several accolades, including Best Picture and Director at the Golden Globes, Producers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, and Critics Choice Awards.
The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards at the 71st Academy Awards, where it won five including Spielberg's second win for Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Sound Effects Editing, though it lost the Academy Award for Best Picture to" Shakespeare in Love" in a controversial upset.
Since its release", Saving Private Ryan" has been considered as one of the greatest films ever made and has been lauded as influential on the war film genre.
It is credited for renewing interest in World War II media.
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked" Saving Private Ryan" as the 71st- greatest American movie in AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies( 10th Anniversary Edition) and in 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Richard Hymns
Richard Hymns( born July 18, 1947) is a sound editor.
He has won 3 Academy Awards for his work on" Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeJurassic Park" and" Saving Private Ryan".
On January 24, 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for the film" War Horse".
He has 9 nominations for Best Sound Editing, making him the most nominated sound editor.
Karelle Tremblay
Karelle Tremblay is a Canadian film and television actress from Quebec.
She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for" Our Loved Ones( Les Êtres chers)".
She has also appeared in the films" Amsterdam Corbo King DaveOh What a Wonderful Feeling" and" The Fireflies Are Gone( La disparution des lucioles)", and the television series" Le Club des doigts croisés 19- 2" and" Jérémie".
Amanda Boxer
Amanda Boxer( born 1948) is an English theatre, television, and film actress.
She is perhaps best known for her role in the film" Saving Private Ryan"( 1998).
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg( born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.
He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and one of the most popular directors and producers in film history.
Spielberg started in Hollywood directing television and several minor theatrical releases.
He became a household name as the director of" Jaws"( 1975), which was critically and commercially successful and is considered the first summer blockbuster.
His subsequent releases focused typically on science fiction/ adventure films such as" Close Encounters of the Third Kind"( 1977)," Raiders of the Lost Ark"( 1981)," E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial"( 1982), and" Jurassic Park"( 1993), which became archetypes of modern Hollywood escapist filmmaking.
Spielberg transitioned into addressing serious issues in his later work with" The Color Purple"( 1985)," Empire of the Sun"( 1987)," Schindler's List"( 1993)," Amistad"( 1997), and" Saving Private Ryan"( 1998).
He has largely adhered to this practice during the 21st century, with" Munich"( 2005)," Lincoln"( 2012)," Bridge of Spies"( 2015), and" The Post"( 2017).
He co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Studios, where he has also served as a producer or executive producer for several successful film trilogies, tetralogies and more including the" GremlinsBack to the FutureMen in Black", and the" Transformers" series.
He later transitioned into producing several games within the video game industry.
Spielberg is one of the American film industry's most critically successful filmmakers, with praise for his directing talent and versatility, and he has won the Academy Award for Best Director twice.
Some of his movies are also among the highest- grossing movies of all- time, while his total work makes him the highest- grossing film director in history.
His net worth is estimated to be more than$ 3 billion.
François Jaros
François Jaros is a Canadian film and television director from Montreal, Quebec.
He is a two- time winner of the award for Best Live Action Short Film at the Prix Jutra/ Iris, winning at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for" Life's a Bitch( Toutes des connes)" and at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2016 for" Maurice".
His 2016 film" Oh What a Wonderful Feeling" was also shortlisted in the same category at the 1st Prix Iris in 2017, and was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards.
He is largely a self- taught filmmaker; after completing CEGEP education he applied to study film at Concordia University but was not successfully admitted to the program.
According to Jaros," I was proactive.
I went on and did films instead of studying them."
He has also directed episodes of the television series" En tout cas" and the web series" L' Âge adulte".
Oh What a Wonderful Feeling
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What a Wonderful Feeling is a Canadian short drama film, directed by François Jaros and released in 2016.
The film, an experimental drama described by Jaros as one in which he wanted" to have the narrative just outside of the frame; to suggest that there ’s a bigger world, a bigger thing and something maybe meaner, more strange happening", largely depicts actions driven by offscreen events and features very little spoken dialogue.
The film's cast includes Patrice Beauchesne, Frédérike Bédard, Ellen David, Dany Gange, Catherine Hughes, Tania Kontoyanni, François Lambert, Dominique Laurence, Marguerite Laurence, Louis Negin, Sarah Pellerin, Karelle Tremblay and Zachary Tremblay.
The film premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, in the Semaine de la critique stream.
The film was a shortlisted Prix Iris nominee for Best Short Film at the 1st Prix Iris.
At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards, the film was shortlisted for Best Live Action Short Drama.

Question: Do both films, Saving Private Ryan and Oh What a Wonderful Feeling, have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: no