Question: Is it true that Stephan Elliott and Emile Ardolino were film directors?

Context articles: Easy Virtue (2008 film)
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
Stephan Elliott
Chances Are (film)
Gypsy (1993 film)
Emile Ardolino
Dirty Dancing
Sister Act
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (musical)
The Nutcracker (1993 film)

Easy Virtue is a 2008 British romantic comedy film based on Noël Coward's play of the same name.
 The play was previously made into the silent movie "Easy Virtue" (1928) by Alfred Hitchcock.
 This adaptation is directed by Stephan Elliott, written by Elliott and Sheridan Jobbins, and stars Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas.
 The score contains many Coward and jazz-age songs, some of which are sung or partially sung by the cast.
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' is a 1983 documentary film directed by Emile Ardolino about Jacques d'Amboise, a noted former American ballet star who had dancing roles in such films as "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and "Carousel", and who later became a New York dancing instructor.
 It won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and a 1984 Emmy Award for Best Children's Programming after it was shown on television.
 It is one of the few theatrical films to win both awards.
Stephan Elliott (born 27 August 1964) is an Australian film director and screenwriter.
 His best-known film internationally is "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994).
Chances Are is a 1989 American romantic comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey, Jr., Ryan O'Neal, and Mary Stuart Masterson.
 The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre.
Gypsy is a 1993 American made-for-television musical comedy-drama film directed by Emile Ardolino.
 The teleplay by Arthur Laurents is an adaptation of his book of the 1959 stage musical "Gypsy", which was based on "" by Gypsy Rose Lee.
Emile Ardolino (May 9, 1943 – November 20, 1993) was an American film director, choreographer, and producer, best known for his films "Dirty Dancing" (1987) and "Sister Act" (1992).
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, and featuring Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach.
Sister Act is a 1992 American musical comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Joseph Howard.
 Featuring musical arrangements by Marc Shaiman, the film stars Whoopi Goldberg as a Reno lounge singer who has been put under protective custody in a San Francisco convent of Poor Clares and has to pretend to be a nun when a mob boss puts her on his hit list.
 Also in the cast are Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, and Harvey Keitel.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a musical with a book by Australian film director-writer Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott, using well-known pop songs as its score.
 Adapted from Elliott's 1994 film "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", the musical tells the story of two drag queens and a transgender woman, who contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert.
 As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, while widening comfort zones and finding new horizons.
The Nutcracker, also known as George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, is a 1993 American Christmas musical film directed by Emile Ardolino.
 The film stars Darci Kistler, Damian Woetzel, Kyra Nichols, Macaulay Culkin Wendy Whelan, Margaret Tracey, Gen Horiuchi and Tom Gold.
 The film was released by Warner Bros. on 24 November, 1993.