Question: Are Leos Carax and Gus Van Sant of the same nationality?

Context articles: Elias McConnell
Holy Motors
Drugstore Cowboy
Boy Meets Girl (1984 film)
My Own Private River
Harris Savides
Leos Carax
Gus Van Sant
Gerry (2002 film)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film)

Elias Comfort McConnell (born 1985) is an American actor from Portland, Oregon.
 In 2003 he played a character of the same name in Gus Van Sant's film "Elephant".
 Three years later in 2006 he was cast in the role of Elie (segment "Le Marais") in the anthology film "Paris, Je t'aime" which had 22 different directors.
 In 2008 Elias played a small role as "Telephone Tree #8" in the Gus Van Sant directed biographical film "Milk".
 Followed closely by his 2009 role as "Young Hippy Boy" (Elias Comfort) in Jean-Claude Schlim's Luxembourgian-German drama film ""House of Boys"".
 Elias has an upcoming role in the Kevin Foong film "Casting Room" (2012) which is currently in post-production.
 Elias McConnell is now living in Brooklyn, New York.
Holy Motors is a 2012 French-German fantasy drama film written and directed by Leos Carax, starring Denis Lavant and Édith Scob.
 Lavant plays Mr. Oscar, a man not unlike an actor who inhabits several roles, but there are no apparent cameras filming the man's performances.
 It is Carax's first feature film since 1999.
 The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant.
 Written by Van Sant and Daniel Yost, and based on an autobiographical novel by James Fogle, the film stars Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham and William S. Burroughs.
 It was Van Sant's second film as director.
Boy Meets Girl is a 1984 French drama film written and directed by Leos Carax, starring Denis Lavant and Mireille Perrier.
 It was Carax's first feature film.
 The plot follows the relationship of an aspiring filmmaker (Denis Lavant), who has just been left by his lover and a suicidal young woman (Mireille Perrier), who is also reeling from a failed romance.
My Own Private River is a re-contextualized adventure drama film of My Own Private Idaho (1991).
 Using footage shot and directed by Gus Van Sant in 1990, the new edit gives James Franco and Van Sant a shared director credit.
 The project is in tribute to Franco's favorite actor, River Phoenix.
 Franco called "Idaho" one of his favorite movies and praised River's performance as the actor’s best.
Harris Savides (September 28, 1957 – October 9, 2012) was an American cinematographer.
 Notable films include Gus Van Sant's "young death" trilogy ("Gerry", "Elephant", and "Last Days"), and the Van Sant films "Milk", "Finding Forrester", and "Restless"; David Fincher's "The Game", "Zodiac", and the opening title sequence in "Seven"; Martin Scorsese's short film "The Key to Reserva"; Wong Kar Wai's short film "The Follow"; Ridley Scott's "American Gangster"; Woody Allen's "Whatever Works"; Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" and "The Bling Ring"; Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg" and "Margot at the Wedding"; and John Turturro's "Illuminata".
Alex Christophe Dupont (born 22 November 1960), best known as Leos Carax (] ), is a French film director, critic, and writer.
 Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love.
 His first major work was "Boy Meets Girl" (1984), and his notable works include "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf" (1991) and "Holy Motors" (2012).
 His professional name is an anagram of his real name, 'Alex', and 'Oscar'.
Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker.
 His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, in particular homosexuality; as such, Van Sant is considered one of the most prominent auteurs of the New Queer Cinema movement.
Gerry is a 2002 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, who also co-wrote the film with Van Sant.
 It is the first film of Van Sant's "Death Trilogy", three films based on deaths that occurred in real life, and is succeeded by "Elephant" (2003) and "Last Days" (2005).
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1993 American romantic comedy-drama film based on Tom Robbins' 1976 novel of the same name.
 The film was directed by Gus Van Sant (credited as Gus Van Sant, Jr.) and starred an ensemble cast led by Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, and Rain Phoenix.
 Robbins himself was the narrator.
 The soundtrack was sung entirely by k.d. lang.
 The film was dedicated to the late River Phoenix.