Charles R. Jackson
Charles Reginald Jackson( April 6, 1903 September 21, 1968) was an American author who wrote the 1944 novel" The Lost Weekend".
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder( born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian- born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades.
He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema.
With" The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin.
After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut.
He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy" Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo.
Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain's" Double Indemnity"( 1944), a film noir.
Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler.
Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story" The Lost Weekend"( 1945), about alcoholism.
In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed" Sunset Boulevard", as well as" Stalag 17" in 1953.
From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies.
Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces" The Seven Year Itch"( 1955) and" Some Like It Hot"( 1959), and satires such as" The Apartment"( 1960).
He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar- nominated performances.
Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute( AFI) Life Achievement Award in 1986.
In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Lewis Russell
Lewis Lord Russell( born George Lewis Lord, September 10, 1889 – November 12, 1961) was an American actor of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s who starred in a number of vaudeville shows, Broadway dramas and Hollywood films, including the Academy Award winning" The Lost Weekend"( 1945) and the Marx Brothers film," A Night in Casablanca"( 1946).
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
The Lost Weekend (film)
The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film directed by Billy Wilder starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman.
It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer.
The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only two films( the other being" Marty") to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes.
In 2011," The Lost Weekend" was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 100% based on 33 reviews, with an average rating of 8.32/ 10.
The site's critical consensus reads," Director Billy Wilder's unflinchingly honest look at the effects of alcoholism may have had some of its impact blunted by time, but it remains a powerful and remarkably prescient film."
Lautaro Murúa
Lautaro Murúa( 29 December 1926 in Tacna, Chile – 3 December 1995 in Madrid) was a Chilean- Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter.
He is one of the best known actors in the cinema of Argentina.
Born in Chile, Murúa moved to Argentina at the beginning of the fifties.
He studied architecture and fine arts before entering the film industry.
He worked primarily as an actor and appeared in over 80 films between 1949 and his death in 1995 although he also directed a handful of important films such as" ShunkoAlias Gardelito" and" La Raulito", all with stories usually revolving around social topics.
As an actor, Murúa participated in the 1960s film industry revival, acting in the movies of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Rodolfo Kuhn, Manuel Antín and David José Kohon.
He left to live in Spain for political reasons in the 1970s, and then he returned to Argentina to film several movies until sickness set in and he died in Spain in 1995.
G. Marthandan
G. Marthandan is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema.
Abhishek Saxena
Abhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu.
The Phullu movie was released in theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role.
Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film.
This film was screened in cinemas in 2014.
Shunko
Shunko is a 1960 Argentine film directed by Lautaro Murúa.
It won the Silver Condor Award for Best Film.
Drew Esocoff
Drew Esocoff( born c. 1957) is an American television sports director, who as of 2006 has been the director of NBC Sunday Night Football.

Question: Which film has the director who died first, The Lost Weekend (film) or Shunko?
Answer: Shunko