The Sessions (film)
The Sessions( originally titled The Surrogate) is a 2012 American independent erotic comedy drama film written and directed by Ben Lewin.
It is based on the article" On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" by Mark O'Brien, a poet paralyzed from the neck down due to polio, who hired a sex surrogate to lose his virginity.
John Hawkes and Helen Hunt star as O'Brien and sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen- Greene, respectively.
The film debuted at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award( U.S. Dramatic) and a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting.
Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the film's distribution rights and released the film in October 2012.
" The Sessions" received highly positive reviews from critics, in particular lauding the performances of Hawkes and Hunt.
Hunt was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 85th Academy Awards.
Pietro Bizzarri
Pietro Bizzarri( 1525–1586) was an Italian historian and spy.
I Want Your Love (film)
I Want Your
Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film.
Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews.
The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons.
The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes.
The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword.
This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively.
Tony Gerber
Tony Gerber is an American filmmaker and the co-founder of Market Road Films, an independent production company.
Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate
Private Practices:
The Story of a Sex Surrogate is a 1985 US documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about the interaction between a sex surrogate and her clients- Dick's first documentary film.
Kirby Dick
Kirby Bryan Dick( born August 23, 1952) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor.
He is best known for directing documentary films.
He received Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature for directing" Twist of Faith"( 2005) and" The Invisible War"( 2012).
He has also received numerous awards from film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and Los Angeles Film Festival.
An Officer and a Spy (film)
An Officer and a Spy is a 2019 French- Italian historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski about the Dreyfus affair, with a screenplay by Polanski and Robert Harris based on Harris' 2013 novel of the same name.
It had its premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on 30 August 2019, winning the Grand Jury Prize.
John Barlow (diplomat)
John Barlow was an English diplomat and spy in the time of Henry VIII.
Mark O'Brien (poet)
Mark O'Brien( July 31, 1949 – July 4, 1999) was an American journalist, poet, and advocate for the disabled.
He has been the subject of two films:, which won an Academy Award in 1997, and" The Sessions" in which he was portrayed by John Hawkes, a film that won the audience award in the U.S. Dramatic category at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.
" The Sessions" was based on his essay," On Seeing a Sex Surrogate", which appeared in the" Sun" magazine in 1990.
The sex surrogate was named Cheryl Cohen- Greene.
They remained friends until his death.
Roman Polanski
Roman Polański( born 18 August 1933 in Paris; original name Raymond Thierry Liebling) is a French- Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor.
Since 1978, Polanski has been a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system; he fled the country while awaiting sentencing in his sexual abuse case, in which he pleaded guilty to statutory rape.
His Polish- Jewish parents moved the family back from Paris to Kraków in 1937.
Two years later, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany starting World War II and the Polanskis found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto.
After his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes under an adopted identity, trying to survive the Holocaust.
Polanski's first feature- length film," Knife in the Water"( 1962), was made in Poland and was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
He has since received five more Oscar nominations, along with two BAFTAs, four Césars, a Golden Globe Award and the Palme d' Or of the Cannes Film Festival in France.
In the United Kingdom he directed three films, beginning with" Repulsion"( 1965).
In 1968, he moved to the United States and cemented his status by directing the horror film" Rosemary's Baby"( 1968).
A turning point in his life took place in 1969, when his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and four friends were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family.
Following her death, Polanski returned to Europe and eventually continued directing.
He made" Macbeth"( 1971) in England and back in Hollywood," Chinatown"( 1974), which was nominated for eleven Academy Awards.
In 1977, Polanski was arrested and charged with drugging and raping a 13- year- old girl.
He subsequently pled guilty to the lesser offence of unlawful sex with a minor.
After spending 42 days undergoing psychiatric evaluation in prison in preparation for sentencing, Polanski, who had expected to be put on probation, fled to Paris after learning that the judge planned to reject his plea deal and impose a prison term.
In Europe, Polanski continued to make films, including" Tess"( 1979), starring Nastassja Kinski.
It won France's César Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, and received three Oscars.
He later produced and directed" The Pianist"( 2002), a drama about a Jewish- Polish musician escaping Nazi persecution, starring Adrien Brody and Emilia Fox.
The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director, along with numerous international awards.
He also directed" Oliver Twist"( 2005), a story which parallels his own life as a" young boy attempting to triumph over adversity".
He was awarded Best Director for" The Ghost Writer"( 2010) at the 23rd European Film Awards.
He also received Best Screenwriter nomination at the aforementioned awards for" Carnage"( 2011).
In 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to expel Polanski from its membership.

Question: Are the directors of both films Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate and An Officer and a Spy (film) from the same country?
Answer: no