Question: Are director of film Double Indemnity (film) and director of film Ninja Assassin from the same country?

<P0-S0> He has been an assistant director on many films, including" Dark City"( 1998), the" Matrix" trilogy( 1999 – 2003) and( 2002), and made his directorial debut with the 2005 film" V for Vendetta" to critical acclaim. <P0-S1> Since" Vendetta" he has collaborated with the Wachowskis an additional three times as director on" The Invasion"( albeit uncredited)," Ninja Assassin" and" Sense 8". <P0-S2> James McTeigue is an Australian film director. <SEP> <P1-S0> The screenplay was based on James M. Cain's 1943 novella of the same name, which originally appeared as an eight- part serial in" Liberty" magazine, beginning in February 1936. <P1-S1> The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife who wishes her husband were dead, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims adjuster whose job is to find phony claims. <P1-S2> Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. <P1-S3> The term" double indemnity" refers to a clause in certain life insurance policies that doubles the payout in rare cases when the death is accidental, such as falling off a train. <P1-S4> Praised by many critics when first released," Double Indemnity" was nominated for seven Academy Awards but did not win any. <P1-S5> Widely regarded as a classic, it often is cited as having set the standard for film noir. <P1-S6> Deemed" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1992," Double Indemnity" was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. <P1-S7> In 1998, it was ranked No. 38 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best American films of all time, and in 2007 it placed 29th on their 10th Anniversary list. <P1-S8> Wilder considered" Double Indemnity" his best film in terms of having the fewest scripting and shooting mistakes and always maintained that the two things he was proudest of in his career were the compliments he received from Cain about" Double Indemnity" and from Agatha Christie for his handling of her" Witness for the Prosecution". <SEP> <P2-S0> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> <P3-S0> He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema. <P3-S1> With" The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film. <P3-S2> Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. <P3-S3> He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy" Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo. <P3-S4> Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler. <P3-S5> Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story" The Lost Weekend"( 1945), about alcoholism. <P3-S6> In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed" Sunset Boulevard", as well as" Stalag 17" in 1953. <P3-S7> Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces" The Seven Year Itch"( 1955) and" Some Like It Hot"( 1959), and satires such as" The Apartment"( 1960). <P3-S8> He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar- nominated performances. <P3-S9> In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. <P3-S10> Billy Wilder( born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian- born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. <P3-S11> In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. <SEP> <P4-S0> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> <P5-S0> The story was written by Matthew Sand, with a screenplay by J. Michael Straczynski. <P5-S1> Ninja Assassin is a 2009 neo-noir martial arts film directed by James McTeigue. <P5-S2> The film stars South Korean pop musician Rain as a disillusioned assassin looking for retribution against his former mentor, played by ninja film legend Sho Kosugi. <P5-S3> "Ninja Assassin" explores political corruption, child endangerment and the impact of violence. <P5-S4> The Wachowskis, Joel Silver, and Grant Hill produced the film for Legendary Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment and Silver Pictures. <P5-S5> It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. <P5-S6> "Ninja Assassin" premiered in theaters across the United States on November 25, 2009 and received mixed reviews from critics. <P5-S7> Its box office gross was $61,590,252, of which $38,122,883 was from North America. <P5-S8> The film's budget was $40 million.