Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
John Huston
John Marcellus Huston( August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist.
Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident.
He returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life.
He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics:" The Maltese Falcon"( 1941)," The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"( 1948)," The Asphalt Jungle"( 1950)," The African Queen"( 1951)," The Misfits"( 1961)," Fat City"( 1972)," The Man Who Would Be King"( 1975) and" Prizzi's Honor"( 1986).
During his 46- year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins.
Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years.
He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting.
While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed.
Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an" heroic quest," as in" Moby Dick", or" The Red Badge of Courage".
In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming" destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension.
Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war.
Huston has been referred to as" a titana rebel", and a" renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry.
Author Ian Freer describes him as" cinema's Ernest Hemingway" — a filmmaker who was" never afraid to tackle tough issues head on."
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.
Sorcerer (film)
Sorcerer is a 1977 American thriller horror film directed and produced by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou.
The second adaptation of Georges Arnaud's 1950 French novel" Le Salaire de la peur", it has been widely considered a remake of the 1953 film" The Wages of Fear".
Friedkin, however, has disagreed with this assessment.
The plot depicts four outcasts from varied backgrounds meeting in a South American village, where they are assigned to transport cargoes of aged, poorly kept dynamite that is so unstable that it is' sweating' its dangerous basic ingredient, nitroglycerin." Sorcerer" was originally conceived as a side- project to Friedkin's next major film," The Devil's Triangle", with a modest US$ 2.5 million budget.
The director later opted for a bigger production, which he thought would become his legacy.
The cost of" Sorcerer" was earmarked at$ 15 million, escalating to$ 22 million following a troubled production with various filming locations — primarily in the Dominican Republic—and conflicts between Friedkin and his crew.
The mounting expenses required the involvement of two major film studios, Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures, with both studios sharing the U.S. distribution and Cinema International Corporation being responsible for the international release.
The film gained mixed to negative critical reception upon its release.
Its domestic( including rentals) and worldwide gross of$ 5.9 million and$ 9 million respectively did not recoup its costs.
A considerable number of critics, as well as the director himself, attributed the film's commercial failure to its release at roughly the same time as" Star Wars", which instantly became a pop- culture phenomenon.
The film has enjoyed a critical re-evaluation, and some critics have lauded it as an overlooked masterpiece, perhaps" the last undeclared[ one] of the American'70s".
Director Friedkin considers" Sorcerer" among one of his favorite works, and the most personal and difficult film he has made.
Tangerine Dream's electronic music score was also acclaimed, leading the band to become popular soundtrack composers in the 1980s.
After a lengthy lawsuit filed against Universal Studios and Paramount, Friedkin started supervising a digital restoration of" Sorcerer", with the new print premiering at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2013.
Its remastered home video release on Blu-ray came out on April 22, 2014.
Annie (1982 film)
Annie is a 1982 American musical comedy- drama film based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on the" Little Orphan Annie" comic strip created by Harold Gray.
Directed by John Huston and written by Carol Sobieski, the film stars Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann and Aileen Quinn as the title character.
Set during the Great Depression in 1933, the film tells the story of Annie, an orphan from New York City who is taken in by America's richest billionaire Oliver Warbucks.
Principal photography took place for six weeks at Monmouth University in New Jersey.
Produced by Ray Stark's Rastar and released by Columbia Pictures on June 18, 1982," Annie" received mixed reviews from film critics and grossed$ 57 million on a$ 50 million budget.
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Production Design and Best Song Score and its Adaptation.
A television film sequel, titled was released in 1995.
In their first film collaboration, Disney and Columbia Pictures produced a made- for- television film version in 1999.
Columbia released another film adaptation on December 19, 2014.
William Friedkin
William Friedkin( born August 29, 1935) is an American film and television director, producer and screenwriter closely identified with the" New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s.
Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is perhaps best known for directing the action thriller film" The French Connection"( 1971) and the supernatural horror film" The Exorcist"( 1973), the former of which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director.
The latter also earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director.
His other films include the pioneering queer drama" The Boys in the Band"( 1970), the suspense thriller" Sorcerer"( 1977), the controversial crime film" Cruising"( 1980), the action thriller" To Live and Die in L.A."( 1985), the psychological horror film" Bug"( 2006), and the dark comedy" Killer Joe"( 2011).
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.

Question: Are both director of film Annie (1982 film) and director of film Sorcerer (film) from the same country?
Answer: yes