Question: Do both directors of films Wild At Heart (Film) and The Stand Up share the same nationality?

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> The Stand Up is a 2011 American comedy/drama film written and directed by David Wexler and starring Jonathan Sollis, Margarita Levieva, Arija Bareikis, and Aidan Quinn. <SEP> Tofiga Fepulea'i is a New Zealand- based actor and comedian of Samoan descent best known as a member of the stand up comedy duo Laughing Samoans. <SEP> He is best known for films such as" Eraserhead"( 1977)," Blue Velvet"( 1986) and" Mulholland Drive"( 2001), often regarded by critics as among the best films of their respective decades, and for his successful 1990 – 91 television series" Twin Peaks", which led to him being labeled" the first popular Surrealist" by noted film critic Pauline Kael. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, he has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and has won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. He has been described by" The Guardian" as" the most important director of this era", while All Movie called him" the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking". Born to a middle- class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States before he studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. He moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror film" Eraserhead"( 1977). After" Eraserhead" became a success on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct the biographical film" The Elephant Man"( 1980), from which he gained mainstream success. He was then employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and proceeded to make two films: the science- fiction epic" Dune"( 1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo- noir mystery film" Blue Velvet"( 1986), which stirred controversy over its violence but later grew in critical reputation. Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the popular murder mystery entitled" Twin Peaks"( 1990 – 1991). He also created a cinematic prequel,( 1992), a road film" Wild at Heart"( 1990) and a family film" The Straight Story"( 1999) in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on dream logic non-linear narrative structures:" Lost Highway"( 1997)," Mulholland Drive"( 2001), and" Inland Empire"( 2006). Meanwhile, Lynch embraced the Internet as a medium, producing several web- based shows, such as the animated" DumbLand"( 2002) and the surreal sitcom" Rabbits"( 2002). Lynch and Frost reunited for a third season of" Twin Peaks", airing in on Showtime in 2017. Lynch co-wrote and directed every episode, as well as reprising his role as Gordon Cole. Lynch's other artistic endeavours include: his work as a musician, encompassing three studio albums—" Blue BOB"( 2001)," Crazy Clown Time"( 2011) and" The Big Dream"( 2013) —as well as music and sound design for a variety of his films; painting and photography; writing three books —" Images"( 1994)," Catching the Big Fish"( 2006), and" Room to Dream"( 2018); and directing several music videos and advertisements, including the Dior promotional film" Lady Blue Shanghai"( 2006). David Keith Lynch( born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer. An avid practitioner of Transcendental Meditation( TM), Lynch founded the David Lynch Foundation in 2005, which sought to fund the teaching of TM in schools and has since widened its scope to other at-risk populations, including the homeless, veterans and refugees. In 2019, he received an Academy Honorary Award; his first Oscar win. <SEP> It is based on Barry Gifford's 1989 novel of the same name. Both the book and the film revolve around Sailor Ripley( Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune( Dern), a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina, who go on the run from her domineering mother and the gangsters she hires to kill Sailor. Lynch was originally going to produce, but after reading Gifford's book, he decided to also write and direct the film. He did not like the ending of the novel and decided to change it in order to fit his vision of the main characters. " Wild at Heart" is a road movie and includes several allusions to" The Wizard of Oz" as well as Elvis Presley and his movies. Early test screenings for the film did not go well; Lynch estimated that 80 people walked out of the first test screening and 100 in the next. At the time of its release, the film received mixed critical reviews and was a moderate success at the US box office, grossing$ 14 million, above its$ 10 million budget. The film won the Palme d' Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, at which it received both negative and positive attention from its audience. Wild at Heart is a 1990 American black comedy romantic- crime film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, and Isabella Rossellini. Diane Ladd was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes. It has since received some positive re-evaluation from critics. <SEP> David Wexler is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Wexler is a New York City native and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he majored in Communication Arts. Prior to his feature films (EVIL WEED, THE STAND UP, ANCHORS, TURTLE ISLAND, LAST SUPPER, VIGILANTE), David focused on television, creating and producing the critically acclaimed reality show "College Life" for MTV. David has written and directed endless commercials and corporate videos, and worked closely with Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels to create a comic book, and a handbook as well as a clothing line available at Barking Irons. David founded the production company Cinema 59 Productions in 2006. Cinema 59 often works with Creative Diversions (a Toy/Game company) to create 360 degree entertainment.