Question: Which film whose director was born first, Smashing Barriers or How Do You Know?

Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. <SEP> He was a leading star, becoming one of the highest paid actors in the early film industry. William Duncan (December 16, 1879 – February 7, 1961), born in Dundee, Scotland was an actor, producer, writer, and director of film serials. Many of the films he starred in did not survive to the present day. Duncan, who was Hollywood's first Scottish movie star, worked with the major studios of the day including the Selig Polyscope Company and Vitagraph. <SEP> Do You Know may refer to: <SEP> It was the third film to feature Witherspoon and Rudd following 1998 ’s" Overnight Delivery" and 2009 ’s" Monsters vs. Aliens". The film was shot in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.. How Do You Know is a 2010 American romantic comedy- drama film directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks and starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, and Jack Nicholson. " How Do You Know" was released theatrically on December 17, 2010, and was a box office bomb, grossing$ 49 million against a$ 100 million net budget. <SEP> While growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York University, he got a job as an usher at CBS, going on to write for the CBS News broadcasts. He moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to work on David L. Wolper's documentaries. After being laid off he met producer Allan Burns who secured him a job as a writer on the series" My Mother the Car". Brooks wrote for several shows before being hired as a story editor on" My Friend Tony" and later created the series" Room 222". Grant Tinker hired Brooks and Burns at MTM Productions to create" The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in 1970. The show, one of the first to feature an independent working woman as its lead character, was critically acclaimed and won Brooks several Primetime Emmy Awards. Brooks and Burns then created two successful spin- offs from" Mary Tyler MooreRhoda"( a comedy) and" Lou Grant"( a drama). Brooks left MTM Productions in 1978 to co-create the sitcom" Taxi" which, despite winning multiple Emmys, suffered from low ratings and was canceled twice. Brooks moved into feature film work when he wrote and co-produced the 1979 film" Starting Over". His next project was the critically acclaimed film" Terms of Endearment", which he produced, directed and wrote, winning an Academy Award for all three roles. Basing his next film," Broadcast News", on his journalistic experiences, the film earned him a further two Academy Award nominations. Although his 1994 work" I'll Do Anything" was hampered by negative press attention due to the cutting of all of its recorded musical numbers," As Good as It Gets"( co- written with Mark Andrus) earned further praise. James Lawrence Brooks( born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter, who helped create a string of acclaimed productions in television and the movies, including" The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Simpsons Broadcast News", and" Terms of Endearment". It was seven years until his next film, 2004's" Spanglish". His sixth film," How Do You Know", was released in 2010. Brooks also produced and mentored Cameron Crowe on" Say Anything ..."( 1989) and Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson on" Bottle Rocket"( 1996). In 1984, Brooks founded the television and film company, Gracie Films. Although he did not intend to do so, Brooks returned to television in 1987 as the producer of" The Tracey Ullman Show". He hired cartoonist Matt Groening to create a series of shorts for the show, which eventually led to" The Simpsons" in 1989. " The Simpsons" won numerous awards and is still running. Brooks also co-produced and co-wrote the 2007 film adaptation of the show," The Simpsons Movie". In total, Brooks has received 53 Emmy nominations, winning 21 of them. <SEP> It was produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. This serial was condensed down to a 6- reel feature and rereleased by Vitagraph in 1923 under the same title. Smashing Barriers is a lost 1919 15- part 1919 American film serial directed by and starring William Duncan.