Question: Are director of film Challenge To Lassie and director of film Into The Wild (Film) both from the same country?

Sean Justin He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama" Mystic River"( 2003) and the biopic" Milk"( 2008). Penn( born August 17, 1960) is an American actor, director, and filmmaker. Penn began his acting career in television, with a brief appearance in episode 112 of" Little House on the Prairie" on December 4, 1974, and directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in the drama" Taps"( 1981), and a diverse range of film roles in the 1980s, including" Fast Times at Ridgemont High"( 1982), Penn garnered critical attention for his roles in the crime dramas" At Close Range"( 1986)," State of Grace"( 1990), and" Carlito's Way"( 1993). He became known as a prominent leading actor with the drama" Dead Man Walking"( 1995), for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination and the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Penn received another two Oscar nominations for Woody Allen's comedy- drama" Sweet and Lowdown"( 1999) and the drama" I Am Sam"( 2001), before winning his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 for" Mystic River" and a second one in 2008 for" Milk". He has also won a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for the Nick Cassavetes- directed" She's So Lovely"( 1997), and two Best Actor Awards at the Venice Film Festival for the indie film" Hurlyburly"( 1998) and the drama" 21 Grams"( 2003). Penn made his feature film directorial debut with" The Indian Runner"( 1991), followed by the drama film" The Crossing Guard"( 1995) and the mystery film" The Pledge"( 2001). Penn directed one of the 11 segments of" 11'09" 01 September 11"( 2002), a compilation film made in response to the September 11 attacks. His fourth feature film, the biographical drama survival movie" Into the Wild"( 2007), garnered critical acclaim and two Academy Award nominations. In addition to his film work, Penn has engaged in political and social activism, including his criticism of the George W. Bush administration, his contact with the Presidents of Cuba and Venezuela, and his humanitarian work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> It was the fifth feature film starring the original Lassie, a collie named Pal, and the fourth and final" Lassie" film starring Donald Crisp. The movie is based on Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson's 1912 novel" Greyfriars Bobby" which in turn is based on the true story of Greyfriars Bobby. Twelve years after starring in" Challenge to Lassie", Crisp would star in another movie based on the novel," Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog". Set in Scotland in 1860, the film tells the story of a rough collie named Lassie whose master, Jock Gray, is killed by robbers in Edinburgh. After his death, the dog keeps a constant vigil beside her master's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, which is in violation of the local dog laws. In the original novel, the title dog was a Skye Terrier named Bobby and his owner dies from pneumonia. Challenge to Lassie is an American drama directed by Richard Thorpe in Technicolor and released October 31, 1949, by MGM Studios. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> Richard Thorpe( born Rollo Smolt Thorpe; February 24, 1896 – May 1, 1991) was an American film director best known for his long career at Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer. <SEP> Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical adventure drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of the book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer, and tells the story of Christopher McCandless, a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless and Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt as his parents, and features Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Brian Dierker, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, and Hal Holbrook. The film premiered during the 2007 Rome Film Fest and later opened outside Fairbanks, Alaska on September 21, 2007. It was nominated for two Golden Globes and won the award for Best Original Song:" Guaranteed" by Eddie Vedder. It was also nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Holbrook.