Question: Do both directors of films Fire Sale (Film) and Crimes And Misdemeanors share the same nationality?

Alan Wolf Arkin( born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. With a film career spanning seven decades, Arkin is known for his performances in" The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming"( 1966)," Wait Until Dark"( 1967)," The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"( 1968)," Popi"( 1969)," Catch- 22"( 1970)," The In- Laws"( 1979)," Edward Scissorhands"( 1990)," The Rocketeer"( 1991)," Glengarry Glen Ross"( 1992)," Thirteen Conversations About One Thing"( 2001)," Little Miss Sunshine"( 2006)," Get Smart"( 2008)," Sunshine Cleaning"( 2008), and" Argo"( 2012). He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for his performances in" The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" and" The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in" Little Miss Sunshine" and received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in" Argo". <SEP> 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. 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. 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. 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> Martin Landau( 1928 – 2017) was an American film and television actor. On television, Landau most notable role as that of Rollin Hand in( 1966 – 1969) and as Commander John Koenig in the science fiction series( 1975 – 1977). On film, Landau appeared in notable films such as" North by Northwest"( 1959),( 1988) and" Crimes and Misdemeanors"( 1989). Landau won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's" Ed Wood"( 1994). <SEP> Fire Sale is a 1977 comedy film starring Alan Arkin( who also directed) as Ezra Fikus, Rob Reiner as his brother Russell, Vincent Gardenia as their father Benny, Sid Caesar as Benny's brother Sherman, Anjanette Comer as Marion( Ezra's wife), and Kay Medford as Ruth( Benny's wife). <SEP> Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris. The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors. <SEP> Although a box office flop, the film was met with critical acclaim, and received three Oscar nominations: Woody Allen, for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and Martin Landau, for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In several publications," Crimes and Misdemeanors" has been ranked as one of Allen's greatest films. Crimes and Misdemeanors is a 1989 American existential comedy- drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars alongside Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston and Joanna Gleason.