Question: Do both films The Player (1992 Film) and Melinda And Melinda have the directors from the same country?

He began his career as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television and publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes, where he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004 Comedy Central ranked Allen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, while a UK survey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian. By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the 1970s, and alternating between comedies and dramas to the present. He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s. Allen often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935), better known as Woody Allen, is an American director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Some of the best-known of his over 50 films are "Annie Hall" (1977), "Manhattan" (1979), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989), and "Midnight in Paris" (2011). In 2007 he said "Stardust Memories" (1980), "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985), and "Match Point" (2005) were his best films. Critic Roger Ebert described Allen as "a treasure of the cinema". Allen has received many accolades and honors throughout his career. He has won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director. He also garnered nine British Academy Film Awards. His screenplay for "Annie Hall" was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the "101 Funniest Screenplays". In 2011 PBS televised the film biography "Woody Allen: A Documentary" on its series "American Masters". <SEP> The film stars Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Brion James, Cynthia Stevenson and is the story of a Hollywood film studio executive who kills an aspiring screenwriter he believes is sending him death threats. " The Player" has many film references and Hollywood in- jokes, with 65 celebrities making cameo appearances in the film. Altman once stated that the film" is a very mild satire," offending no one. The film received three nominations at the 65th Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing. The Player is a 1992 American satirical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Michael Tolkin, based on his own 1988 novel of the same name. The film also won two Golden Globes, Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical and Best Actor – Comedy or Musical for Robbins. <SEP> Andy Smallman( Andrew William Smallman; born 24 May 1963) is the founding director of Puget Sound Community School in Seattle, Wash. PSCS is an independent school in the Seattle Chinatown- International District for students in grades 6-12. Andy, along with his wife Melinda Shaw, started the school in 1994. Andy's online class" The Practice of Kindness" drew national media interest in 2009. It was named" Idea of the Day" from former White House speechwriter and bestselling author Daniel H. Pink. To expand on the interest in these classes, in 2011 Andy and Melinda launched the Kind Living Network, a venture around the theme of kindness. Kind Living currently offers classes, a blog, a newsletter, and a website. Smallman was a speaker at" Bloom Seattle," at the 2010 Guiding Lights Weekend, and a featured panelist on the subject of compassion at a Compassionate Action Network event. The July/ August 2010 issue of Ode Magazine included a feature of Andy and his kindness classes. Since 2012, Andy has been involved in the Compassion Games, creating the Secret Agent of Compassion game in 2013. Andy and Melinda have two daughters, Chloe( born 1993) and Ella( born 1996). <SEP> Radha Rani Amber Indigo Ananda Mitchell( born 12 November 1973) is an Australian actress. She started her career acting in various Australian television series and films, and later appeared in Hollywood films such as" High Art"( 1998)," Pitch Black"( 2000)," Phone Booth"( 2002)," Man on Fire"( 2004)," Finding Neverland"( 2004)," Melinda and Melinda"( 2004)," Silent Hill"( 2006) and" The Crazies"( 2010). <SEP> It premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two storylines; one comic, one tragic. The film began a limited release in the United States on March 18, 2005. Melinda and Melinda is a 2004 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. <SEP> A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema. His style of filmmaking covered many genres, but usually with a "subversive" twist which typically relied on satire and humor to express his personal views. Altman developed a reputation for being "anti-Hollywood" and non-conformist in both his themes and directing style. However, actors especially enjoyed working under his direction because he encouraged them to improvise, thereby inspiring their own creativity. He preferred large ensemble casts for his films, and developed a multitrack recording technique which produced overlapping dialogue from multiple actors. This produced a more natural, more dynamic, and more complex experience for the viewer. He also used highly mobile camera work and zoom lenses to enhance the activity taking place on the screen. Critic Pauline Kael, writing about his directing style, said that Altman could "make film fireworks out of next to nothing." Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Altman's body of work with an Academy Honorary Award. He never won a competitive Oscar despite seven nominations. His films "MASH" (1970), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), and "Nashville" (1975) have been selected for the United States National Film Registry. Altman is one of the few filmmakers whose films have won the Golden Bear at Berlin, the Golden Lion at Venice, and the Golden Palm at Cannes.