Question: Did Carroll Ballard or Richard Linklater receive an American film director award for Best Director and Best Picture?

Context articles: Graham Reynolds (composer)
Boyhood (film)
Richard Linklater
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001 film)
Hideyuki Hirayama
Damien Chazelle
Kamran Qureshi
1991 Young Critics Circle Awards
Carroll Ballard
Markku Pölönen

Graham Reynolds is an Austin, Texas-based composer-bandleader.
 Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs and concert halls with collaborators ranging from Richard Linklater to DJ Spooky to the Austin Symphony Orchestra.
 As bandleader of the jazz-based but far reaching Golden Arm Trio, Reynolds has repeatedly toured the country and released three critically acclaimed albums.
 As Co-Artistic Director of Golden Hornet Project with Peter Stopschinski, Reynolds has produced more than fifty concerts of world-premier alt-classical music by more than sixty composers, as well as five symphonies, two concertos and countless chamber pieces of his own.
 Reynolds music has been heard throughout the world on TV, on stage, in films, and on radio, from HBO to Showtime, Cannes Film Festival to the Kennedy Center, and BBC to NPR.
 His score to the 2006 Richard Linklater feature "A Scanner Darkly".
 was named Best Soundtrack of the Decade by "Cinema Retro" magazine.
 His awards include the Lowe Music Theater Award, four Austin Critic’s Table awards, an Amp Award, five Austin Chronicle Best Composer wins, a B. Iden Payne Award.
 Meet the Composer and Map grants, as well as support from the National Endowment for the Arts for several projects.
 2011 sees twin CD releases on Innova Records, the label branch of the American Composers Forum, of “Three Portraits of Duke Ellington”, a triptych of band, strings, and remixes in tribute to and inspired by the seminal composer-bandleader, and “The Difference Engine”, a triple concerto for violin, cello, piano, and string orchestra.
 "Duke!
 Three Portraits of Ellington" went on to win an Independent Music Award for Best Tribute Album in 2012.
Boyhood is a 2014 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke.
 Filmed from 2002 to 2013, "Boyhood" depicts the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans Jr. (Coltrane) from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Arquette and Hawke).
 Richard Linklater's daughter Lorelei plays Mason's sister, Samantha.
Richard Stuart Linklater ( ; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor.
 Linklater is mostly known for his realistic and natural humanist films which mainly revolve around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time.
 Some notable films of his include the observational comedy film "Slacker" (1990), the coming-of-age comedy "Dazed and Confused" (1993), the romantic drama film trilogy "Before Sunrise" (1995), "Before Sunset" (2004), and "Before Midnight" (2013); the music-themed comedy "School of Rock" (2003), and the rotoscope animated "Waking Life" (2001) and "A Scanner Darkly" (2006).
 In 2002 he began filming "Boyhood" (2014), a passion project which took over twelve years to finish.
 The film was premiered in 2014 to critical acclaim.
 Linklater won the Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture.
 He also received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, along with nominations for Original Screenplay and Picture.
 In 2015, "Time" magazine named Linklater one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual "Time 100" list.
The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 American neo-noir crime film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
 Billy Bob Thornton stars in the title role.
 Also featured are Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, James Gandolfini, and Coen regulars Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Richard Jenkins and Jon Polito.
 Joel Coen won the Best Director Award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
 Ethan Coen, Joel Coen's brother and co-director of the film, did not receive the Best Director Award as he was not credited as a director.
Hideyuki Hirayama (平山秀幸 , Hirayama Hideyuki , born September 18, 1950 in Kitakyushu) is a Japanese film director.
 His theatrical debut was the film "Maria's Stomach" in 1990.
 He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for "The Games Teachers Play" in 1992.
In 1995, "School Ghost Stories" was a big hit and made into popular series. "
Begging for Love" in 1998 got many awards as International press award (FIPRESCI) in Montreal World Film Festival,  Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year, Mainichi Film Award for Best Director etc.In 2001, Hirayama won Best Director Choice for "Turn" at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival.
 He also got several Japanese film awards for director, including the Best Director award for "The Laughing Frog" and "Out" at the 2003 Yokohama Film Festival.
Damien Sayre Chazelle ( ; born January 19, 1985) is an American director, screenwriter and producer.
 Chazelle made his directorial debut with the musical film "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" (2009).
 He rose to prominence for writing and directing his second feature film, "Whiplash" (2014), which received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
 His 2016 film "La La Land" was a critical and commercial success, winning all seven of its Golden Globe nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
 It also received a record-tying fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning six including Best Director, making Chazelle the youngest person in history to win the Oscar for Best Director and to win the Golden Globe for Best Director.
Kamran Qureshi (born October 3, 1975) is a filmmaker and television director/producer.
 He won Best Telefilm & Best Director Award for his first ever directed TV film Murad (a.k.a. Eunuch’s Motherhood) with a cash prize in Indus Telefilm Festival.
 He then won 7 awards for his first TV film series Maa Aur Mamta (a.k.a. Mother & Motherhood) same day in Indus Drama Awards.
 He was nominated for Best Director award in Lux Style Awards for his first drama serial Moorat (a.k.a. Eunuch’s Wedding).
The 2nd Young Critics Circle Awards, first announced on 26 January 1992 in Philippine Times Journal, Port Area, Manila, honored the best of Philippine cinema of 1991.
 In 1991, the Best Director Award was scrapped.
 The Best Picture award would since be given to the film's director.
 Per YCC criteria, "the Best Picture citation is awarded to the Director not so much because he or she is the auteur or the central intelligence of the film, but because his or her work lies at the conjuncture which coordinates film-making."
Carroll Ballard (born October 14, 1937) is an American film director.
 He has directed six feature films, including "The Black Stallion" (1979) and "Fly Away Home" (1996).
Markku Tapani Pölönen (born 16 September 1957 in Eno) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, editor and owner of film production company Suomen Filmiteollisuus.
 Pölönen's best known work is the 2004 film "Dog Nail Clipper" — directed and written by Pölönen — which was honoured with five awards at the 2005 Jussi Awards (Finland's premier film awards) including Best Direction and Best Script and which film critic Jay Weissberg from "Variety" called Pölönen's "most mature work to date".
 Pölönen has been awarded numerous additional Jussi awards, including best picture and best screenplay for "Onnen Maa" (1994); best picture and best director for "Kivenpyörittäjän kylä" (1995); and best picture, best director, and best screenplay for "A Summer by the River" (1999), plus many more Jussi awards for actors in Pölönen's films.
 Pölönen has further been nominated for at least two other Jussis that he did not win.