The Life of Emile Zola
The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about 19th- century French author Émile Zola, starring Paul Muni and directed by William Dieterle, a German émigré.
It is notable as the second biographical film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
It premiered at the Los Angeles Carthay Circle Theatre to great success both critically and financially.
Contemporary reviews ranked it as the best biographical film made up to that time.
In 2000, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Produced during the Great Depression and after the Nazi Party had taken power in Germany, the film failed to explore the key issue of anti-Semitic injustice in France in the late 19th century, when Zola became involved in the Dreyfus affair and worked to gain the officer's release.
Early 21st- century studies noted this film as an example of Hollywood's timidity at the time: anti-Semitism was never mentioned in the film, nor was" Jew" said in dialogue.
Some explicitly anti-Nazi films were cancelled in this period, and other content was modified.
This was also the period when Hollywood had established the Production Code, establishing an internal censor, in response to perceived threats of external censorship.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Tommy Chong and the second feature- length project by Cheech& Chong, following" Up in Smoke", released by Universal Pictures.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Jonnie Barnett
Jonathan Barnett
Kaye( December 12, 1945 – August 18, 2002), known as Jonnie Barnett, was an American musician.
In the 1970s, he performed as an opening act for several acts such as Tom Waits, Cheech and Chong, and Frank Zappa.
He also made appearances in the 1975 film" Nashville", and in" Cheech and Chong's Next Movie".
One of Barnett's compositions," One Foot in the Blues", was recorded by Johnny Adams and received a Blues Song of the Year award from 1997 W. C. Handy Blues Awards.
Barnett also wrote a short story entitled" The Chain of Love" which appeared in the book" Chicken Soup for the Country Soul".
He and songwriter Rory Lee Feek later adapted this story into the song" The Chain of Love", which was a Top 5 country hit for Clay Walker in 2000.
The song was based on a real- life event.
Barnett died of a stroke at the age of 56, on August 18, 2002, in Nashville.
Norman Reilly Raine
Norman Reilly Raine( 23 June 1894 – 19 July 1971) was an American screenwriter, creator of" Tugboat Annie" and winner of an Oscar for the screenplay of" The Life of Emile Zola"( 1937).
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.
William Dieterle
William Dieterle( July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972) was a German- American actor and film director, who emigrated to the United States in 1930 to leave a worsening political situation.
He worked in Hollywood primarily as a director for much of his career, becoming a United States citizen in 1937.
His best- known films include" The Devil and Daniel Webster The Story of Louis Pasteur"( 1936) and" The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
His 1937 film" The Life of Emile Zola" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the second biographical feature to do so.
Tommy Chong
Thomas Bing Kin Chong( born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian- American actor, writer, director, musician, cannabis rights activist and comedian.
He is known for his marijuana- themed Cheech& Chong comedy albums and movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo on Fox's" That' 70s Show".
He became a naturalized United States citizen in the late 1980s.

Question: Are both director of film Cheech And Chong'S Next Movie and director of film The Life Of Emile Zola from the same country?
Answer: yes