Question: Are the directors of films Vanilla Sky and Footlight Parade both from the same country?

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Independent Film. This award is presented to the directors of the film. <SEP> Home is the second full- length studio album by the indie folk musician Josh Rouse. The album was released in March 2000 by Slow River Records and included the single" Directions", which was also featured on the soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie" Vanilla Sky" entitled" Music from Vanilla Sky". <SEP> Footlight Parade is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell and featuring Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert and Ruth Donnelly. The film was written by Manuel Seff and James Seymour based on a story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne, and was directed by Lloyd Bacon, with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley. The film's songs were written by Harry Warren( music), Al Dubin( lyrics), Sammy Fain( music) and Irving Kahal( lyrics), and include" By a WaterfallHoneymoon Hotel" and" Shanghai Lil". In 1992," Footlight Parade" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". <SEP> As a director he made films in virtually all genres, including westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, and crime dramas. He was one of the directors at Warner Bros. in the 1930s who helped give that studio its reputation for gritty, fast-paced "torn from the headlines" action films. And, in directing Warner Bros.' "42nd Street", he joined the movie's song-and-dance-number director, Busby Berkeley, in contributing to "an instant and enduring classic [that] transformed the musical genre." Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director. <SEP> Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at" Rolling Stone" magazine, for which he still frequently writes. Crowe's debut screenwriting effort," Fast Times at Ridgemont High", grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California. Later, he wrote and directed one more high school saga," Say Anything ...", followed by" Singles", a story of twentysomethings that was woven together by a soundtrack centering on Seattle's burgeoning grunge music scene. Crowe landed his biggest hit with" Jerry Maguire". After this, he was given a green light to go ahead with a pet project, the autobiographical effort" Almost Famous". Centering on a teenage music journalist on tour with an up- and- coming band, it gave insight to his life as a 15- year- old writer for" Rolling Stone". For his screenplay, he won an Academy Award. In late 1999, Crowe's second book was published, a question and answer session with the film director Billy Wilder entitled" Conversations with Wilder". Cameron Bruce Crowe( born July 13, 1957) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author, and actor. <SEP> It is an English- language adaptation of Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 Spanish film" Open Your Eyes", which was written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil, with Penélope Cruz reprising her role from the original film. The film has been described as" an odd mixture of science fiction, romance and reality warp". The film stars Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz and Cameron Diaz, with Jason Lee and Kurt Russell appearing in supporting roles. Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Cameron Crowe. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song, as well as Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Award nominations for Cameron Diaz's performance.