Hostage for a Day
Hostage for a Day is a 1994 Canadian-American comedy film directed by John Candy, in his only directorial effort.
Though the film is also billed as "starring" Candy, it in fact only features him as a minor character, as a Russian hostage taker.
Produced with a mostly Canadian cast, the film was released one month after Candy's death.
John Candy
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian, known mainly for his work in Hollywood films.
Candy rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City and its related "Second City Television" series, and through his appearances in such comedy films as "StripesSplashCool RunningsSummer RentalHome AloneThe Great OutdoorsSpaceballs", and "Uncle Buck", as well as more dramatic roles in "Only the Lonely" and "JFK".
One of his most renowned onscreen performances was as Del Griffith, the talkative shower-curtain ring salesman in the John Hughes comedy "Planes, Trains and Automobiles".
In addition to his work as an actor, Candy was a co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League from 1991 until his death, and the team won the 1991 Grey Cup under his ownership.
While filming the Western parody "Wagons East", Candy died of a heart attack in Durango, Mexico, on March 4, 1994, aged 43.
His final two films, "Wagons East" and "Canadian Bacon", are dedicated to his memory.
Hanro Smitsman
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Ben Cura
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Buck and the Preacher
Buck and the Preacher is a 1972 American Western film released by Columbia Pictures, written by Ernest Kinoy and directed by Sidney Poitier.
Poitier also stars in the film alongside Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee.
This is the first film Sidney Poitier directed.
Vincent Canby of" The New York Times" said Poitier" showed a talent for easy, unguarded, rambunctious humor missing from his more stately movies".
This film broke Hollywood Western traditions by casting black actors as central characters and portraying both tension and solidarity between African Americans and Native Americans in the late 19th century.
The notable blues musicians Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Don Frank Brooks performed in the film's soundtrack, composed by jazz great Benny Carter.
Ian Barry (director)
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Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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Jason Moore (director)
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Peter Levin
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Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier,( born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian- American actor and film director.
He received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, winning one, the first black actor to win that award.
He was also nominated six times for each of the Golden Globe for Best Actor and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award( BAFTA) for Best Foreign Actor, winning each once.
From 1997 to 2007, he served as the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan.
His family lived in the Bahamas but Poitier was born in Miami while they were visiting, thereby acquiring American citizenship.
He grew up in the Bahamas, moving to New York when he was 16.
He joined the North American Negro Theatre landing his breakthrough film role in 1950 as an incorrigible high school student in" Blackboard Jungle"( 1955).
In 1958 Poitier starred with Tony Curtis in the critically acclaimed" The Defiant Ones" as chained- together convicts who escape and must cooperate.
Each received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, with Poitier's being the first for a black actor, as well as nominations for the BAFTAs, which Poitier won.
In 1964 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in" Lilies of the Field"( 1963) in which he played a handyman who stays with and helps a group of German- speaking nuns build a chapel.
Poitier also received critical acclaim for" A Raisin in the Sun"( 1961) and" A Patch of Blue"( 1965).
He continued to break ground in three successful 1967 films, each dealing with issues of race and race relations:" To Sir, with LoveGuess Who's Coming to Dinner", and" In the Heat of the Night", making him the top box- office star of that year.
He received nominations for the Golden Globes and BAFTAs for the latter film, but not for the Oscars, likely due to vote splitting between his roles.
After twice reprising his Virgil Tibbs character from" In the Heat of the Night" and acting in a variety of other films, including the thriller" The Wilby Conspiracy"( 1975), with Michael Caine, Poiter turned to acting/ directing with the action- comedies" Uptown Saturday Night"( 1974)," Let's Do It Again"( 1975), and" A Piece of the Action"( 1978), all co-starring Bill Cosby.
During a decade away from acting he directed the successful" Stir Crazy"( 1980) starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, among other films.
He returned to acting in the late 1980s and early 1990s in a few thrillers and television roles.
Poitier was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974.
In 2009 Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor.
In 2016, he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for outstanding lifetime achievement in film.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Poitier 22nd on their list of Greatest Male Stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
In 2002 Poitier was chosen to receive an Academy Honorary Award, in recognition of his" remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being".

Question: Do director of film Buck and the Preacher and director of film Hostage for a Day share the same nationality?
Answer: no