Question: Which film has the director who is older, Brief Encounter or Wolfwalkers?

He is co-founder of Cartoon Saloon, an animation studio and production company based in Kilkenny, Ireland. Thomas" Tomm" Moore( born January 7, 1977) is an Irish filmmaker, animator, illustrator and comics artist. His first two feature films," The Secret of Kells"( 2009), co-directed with Nora Twomey, and" Song of the Sea"( 2014), have received critical acclaim and were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. <SEP> Elliot Silverstein( born August 3, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American director, who is best known for being the director of the movie" Cat Ballou"( 1965). <SEP> Widely considered as one of the most influential directors of all time, Lean was mostly famous for his large- scale epics such as" The Bridge on the River Kwai"( 1957)," Lawrence of Arabia"( 1962)," Doctor Zhivago"( 1965) and" A Passage to India"( 1984). He also directed adaptations of Charles Dickens novels" Great Expectations"( 1946) and" Oliver Twist"( 1948), and the romantic drama" Brief Encounter"( 1945). Originally a film editor in the early 1930s, Lean made his directorial debut with 1942's" In Which We Serve", which was the first of four collaborations with Noël Coward. Beginning with" Summertime" in 1955, Lean began to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios; in 1970, however, the critical failure of his film" Ryan's Daughter" led him to take a fourteen- year break from filmmaking, during which he planned a number of film projects which never came to fruition. In 1984 he had a career revival with" A Passage to India", adapted from E. M. Forster's novel; it was an instant hit with critics but proved to be the last film Lean would direct. Lean's affinity for pictorialism and inventive editing techniques has led him to be lauded by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Ridley Scott. Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute" Sight& SoundDirectors' Top Directors" poll in 2002. Sir David Lean( 25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, which he won twice for" The Bridge on the River Kwai" and" Lawrence of Arabia", he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films( with three of them being in the top five) and was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990. <SEP> The main protagonist is Laura, a married woman with children, whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated because of a chance meeting at a railway station with a married stranger, Alec. Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean about a passionate extramarital affair in pre -WWII England. They fall in love, bringing about unexpected consequences. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one- act play" Still Life". The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with Eileen Joyce on piano. " Brief Encounter" was met with wide praise from critics upon its release, and is today considered to be among Lean's finest works. In 1999, the British Film Institute voted" Brief Encounter" the second greatest British film of all time. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for" Time Out" magazine saw it ranked the twelfth best British film ever. The voice- over throughout the film is in the form of an unspoken confession from Laura to her husband. <SEP> Rufus Norris( born 16 January 1965) is a British theatre and film director, who is currently the Artistic Director of the National Theatre. <SEP> Wolfwalkers is an upcoming Irish animated adventure film directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart.