James Ponsoldt
James Adam Ponsoldt( born 1978) is an American film director, actor and screenwriter, now based in Los Angeles.
He directed the drama films" Off the Black"( 2006) and" Smashed"( 2012), the romantic comedy- drama" The Spectacular Now"( 2013), and the dramas" The End of the Tour"( 2015) and" The Circle"( 2017).
Rachel Feldman
Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Elliott Nugent
Elliott Nugent( September 20, 1896 in Dover, Ohio – August 9, 1980 in New York City) was an American actor, playwright, writer, and film director.
The Great Gatsby (1949 film)
The Great Gatsby is a 1949 American drama film directed by Elliott Nugent, and produced by Richard Maibaum, from a screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume.
It is based on the novel" The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The music score was by Robert Emmett Dolan, and the cinematography by John F. Seitz.
The production was designed by Roland Anderson and Hans Dreier, and the costumes by Edith Head.
The film stars Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, and Barry Sullivan, and features Shelley Winters and Howard Da Silva, the latter of whom later appeared in the 1974 version.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Smashed (film)
Smashed is a 2012 American drama film directed by James Ponsoldt, written by Ponsoldt and Susan Burke, and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul.
Winstead and Paul play a married couple, Kate and Charlie Hannah, both alcoholics.
After a series of embarrassing incidents caused by her drinking habit, Kate decides to get sober with the help of a coworker and a sponsor from Alcoholics Anonymous.
The script was partly based on Burke's own experience of giving up alcohol at a young age, since she felt that her narrative had not yet been told on film.
She and Ponsoldt wrote the script over six months, and the main roles were cast in September 2011.
The film's US$ 500,000 budget was financed by independent investors including Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf.
It was shot in Los Angeles in October 2011.
It premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2012 and was released by Sony Pictures Classics on October 12, 2012.
The film received positive reviews, with Winstead's performance receiving unanimous praise, and was nominated for several awards for her acting.
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.
Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch( April 11, 1916 – February 16, 2001) was an American producer and director of film and television.

Question: Do director of film The Great Gatsby (1949 Film) and director of film Smashed (Film) have the same nationality?
Answer: yes