Question: Are director of film Zombies on Broadway and director of film Blowup from the same country?

He is best known for his" trilogy on modernity and its discontents L' Avventura"( 1960)," La Notte"( 1961), and" L' Eclisse"( 1962) —as well as the English- language films" Blowup"( 1966) and" The Passenger"( 1975). His films have been described as" enigmatic and intricate mood pieces" that featured elusive plots, striking visuals, and a preoccupation with modern landscapes. His work would substantially influence subsequent art films. Antonioni received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize( 1960, 1962), Palme d' Or( 1966), and 35th Anniversary Prize( 1982); the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion( 1955), Golden Lion( 1964), FIPRESCI Prize( 1964, 1995), and Pietro Bianchi Award( 1998); the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon eight times; and an honorary Academy Award in 1995. Michelangelo Antonioni( 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, painter, and short story author. He is one of three directors to have won the Palme d' Or, the Golden Lion and the Golden Bear, and the only director to have won these three and the Golden Leopard. <SEP> Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> It was Antonioni's first entirely English- language film, and stars David Hemmings as a London fashion photographer who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. The film also stars Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Tsai Chin, Peter Bowles, and Gillian Hills, as well as 1960s model Veruschka. The film's plot was inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story" Las babas del diablo"( 1959). Blowup( sometimes styled as Blow- up or Blow Up) is a 1966 mystery thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and produced by Carlo Ponti. The screenplay was by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond. The cinematographer was Carlo di Palma. The film's non-diegetic music was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, while rock group the Yardbirds also feature. The film is set within the mod subculture of 1960s Swinging London. In the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival," Blowup" won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then festival's highest honour. The American release of the counterculture- era film with its explicit sexual content was in direct defiance of Hollywood's Production Code. Its subsequent critical and box- office success influenced the abandonment of the code in 1968 in favour of the MPAA film rating system. " Blowup" would inspire subsequent films, including Francis Ford Coppola's" The Conversation"( 1974) and Brian De Palma's" Blow Out"( 1981). In 2012," Blowup" was ranked No. 144 in the" Sight& Sound" critics' poll of the world's greatest films. <SEP> It stars RKO's imitation Abbott and Costello Alan Carney and Wally Brown as a pair of men who are tasked with finding a real zombie for a zombie- themed nightclub. Sheldon Leonard, as a former mobster turned nightclub owner, and Bela Lugosi, as the mad scientist who created the zombies, also appear. Zombies on Broadway( or Loonies on Broadway in the UK) is a 1945 American zombie comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. <SEP> Gordon Douglas( December 15, 1907 – September 29, 1993) was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five- decade career in motion pictures. He was a native of New York City.