Question: Do both films: The Sand Pebbles (film) and Starlift have the directors from the same country?

<P0-S0> The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American war film directed by Robert Wise in Panavision. <P0-S1> It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy machinist's mate, first class aboard the fictional river gunboat USS" San Pablo", on Yangtze Patrol in 1920s China. <P0-S2> The film features Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Mako, Simon Oakland, Larry Gates, and Marayat Andriane. <P0-S3> Robert Anderson adapted the screenplay from the 1962 novel of the same name by Richard McKenna. <P0-S4> " The Sand Pebbles" was a critical and commercial success at its general release. <P0-S5> It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and eight Golden Globe Awards, with Attenborough winning the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. <SEP> <P1-S0> Roy Del Ruth( October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American film director. <SEP> <P2-S0> The film stars Janice Rule, Dick Wesson, Ron Hagerthy and Ruth Roman. <P2-S1> Starlift( a.k.a. Operation Starlift) is a 1951 American musical film released by Warner Bros. in directed by Roy Del Ruth and written by Karl Lamb and John D. Klorer. <P2-S2> " Starlift" was made during the beginning of the Korean War and centers on an Air Force flyer's wish to meet a film star, and her fellow stars' efforts to perform for injured men at the air force base. <P2-S3> " Starlift" features many of Warner Bros. <P2-S4> top stars, including Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, James Cagney, Gene Nelson, Jane Wyman, Randolph Scott, Virginia Mayo and Phil Harris in cameo appearances as themselves. <SEP> <P3-S0> Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor. <P3-S1> He has appeared in both films and television series. <SEP> <P4-S0> He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both "West Side Story" (1961) and "The Sound of Music" (1965). <P4-S1> He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for "Citizen Kane" (1941) and directed and produced "The Sand Pebbles" (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture. <P4-S2> Among his other films are "The Body Snatcher" (1945), "Born to Kill" (1947), "The Set-Up" (1949), "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), "Destination Gobi" (1953), "This Could Be The Night" (1957), "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958), "I Want to Live!" <P4-S3> (1958), "The Haunting" (1963), "The Andromeda Strain" (1971), "The Hindenburg" (1975) and  (1979). <P4-S4> Wise was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1984 through 1987. <P4-S5> Robert Wise has been viewed as a craftsman, inclined to let the (sometimes studio-assigned) story concept set the style. <P4-S6> Later "cineastes", such as Martin Scorsese, insist that despite Wise's legendary workaday concentration on stylistic perfection within the confines of genre and budget, his choice of subject matter and approach still functioned to identify Wise as an artist and not merely an artisan. <P4-S7> Wise achieved critical success as a director in a striking variety of film genres: horror, noir, western, war, science fiction, musical and drama, with many repeat successes within each genre. <P4-S8> Wise's meticulous preparation may have been largely motivated by studio budget constraints, but advanced the moviemaking art. <P4-S9> Robert Wise received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998. <P4-S10> Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer, and editor. <SEP> <P5-S0> Satan Town is a 1926 American Western film featuring Harry Carey. <P5-S1> Prints of the film have survived.