Question: Are director of film The House Behind The Cedars and director of film The Comedian (2016 Film) from the same country?

<P0-S0> The Comedian is a 2016 American comedy- drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Lewis Friedman, Richard LaGravenese, Art Linson, and Jeff Ross. <P0-S1> The film stars Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Danny DeVito, Edie Falco, Veronica Ferres, Charles Grodin, Cloris Leachman, Patti LuPone, Greer Barnes and Harvey Keitel. <P0-S2> The film had its world premiere at the AFI Fest on November 11, 2016, and was released by Sony Pictures Classics on December 9, 2016. <P0-S3> The film opened to negative reviews from critics. <SEP> <P1-S0> Renée Willett is an American actress who is known for" The Comedian( 2016), Blind"( 2016) and <SEP> <P2-S0> Taylor Edwin Hackford( born December 31, 1944) is an American film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America. <P2-S1> He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for" Teenage Father"( 1979). <P2-S2> Hackford went on to direct a number of highly regarded feature films, most notably" An Officer and a Gentleman"( 1982) and" Ray"( 2004), the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture. <SEP> <P3-S0> Although the short- lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African- American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race film, and has been described as" the most successful African- American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century". <P3-S1> Oscar Devereaux Micheaux( January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an African- American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. <P3-S2> He produced both silent films and sound films when the industry changed to incorporate speaking actors. <SEP> <P4-S0> The House Behind the Cedars is a 1927 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by the noted director Oscar Micheaux. <P4-S1> It was loosely adapted from the 1900 novel of the same name by the African-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt, who explored issues of race, class and identity in the post-Civil War South. <P4-S2> No print of the film is known to exist, and it is considered lost. <P4-S3> Micheaux remade the film in 1932 under the title "Veiled Aristocrats". <P4-S4> The Virginia Censorship Board, an arm of white supremacy, at first banned the film from being shown in the state, saying it would threaten race relations. <P4-S5> In 1924, the state had passed the Racial Integrity Act incorporating the one-drop rule into law for the first time. <P4-S6> It classified as black for state record keeping any person with any known African ancestry, regardless of their self-identification or community. <P4-S7> Although Micheaux made some cuts to get the film distributed, he wrote to the board: "There has been but one picture that incited the colored people to riot and that still does. <P4-S8> [T]hat picture is "Birth of a Nation <SEP> <P5-S0> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.