Question: Are both director of film It Rains in My Village and director of film A Warm December from the same country?

Two of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film:" Three" in 1966 and" I Even Met Happy Gypsies Feather Gatherers") in 1967. The latter( original title" Skupljaci perja") was the first movie that presented the existence of Gypsies in society and everyday life; it was also the first full- feature film where Gypsies spoke their own language, Roma. Most roles were interpreted by real Gypsies; this was their movie. " As a child, I observed them and saw in these people faith and irrationality," said Petrović" I Even Met Happy Gypsies" won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival; it also received a nomination for a Golden Globe. Aleksandar" Saša" Petrović( 14 January 1929 – 20 August 1994) was a Yugoslav and Serbian film director who was one of the leading European directors in the 1960s and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. In 1967 Petrović was a member of the jury at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. One of his most famous films is" It Rains in My Village". Petrović found inspiration for this film in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel" The Possessed". The film was nominated for a Palme d' Or( Golden Palm) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival In 1973, Petrović was forced to leave his post at the Belgrade Film Academy after being accused of holding anti-communist views by the communist government of Yugoslavia. In late December 1989, he joined the founding committee of the Democratic Party in Serbia, the first opposition anti-communist party in Serbia. <SEP> A Warm December is a 1973 American romantic drama film directed by Sidney Poitier and starring him in the lead role as Dr. Matt Younger. It also stars Jamaican actress Esther Anderson as Catherine, Matt's love interest. Anderson's role of an African princess won her a NAACP Image Award for Best Actress in 1973. It is also notable for an appearance of Letta Mbulu's singing" Nonqonqo" with an African choir, written by Miriam Makeba. Coleridge- Taylor Perkinson wrote and conducted the score. The story was influenced by" Roman Holiday" and" Love Story". <SEP> My Village is a Bollywood film. It was released in 1942. <SEP> Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television. <SEP> He received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, winning one, the first black actor to win that award. He was also nominated six times for each of the Golden Globe for Best Actor and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award( BAFTA) for Best Foreign Actor, winning each once. From 1997 to 2007, he served as the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan. His family lived in the Bahamas but Poitier was born in Miami while they were visiting, thereby acquiring American citizenship. He grew up in the Bahamas, moving to New York when he was 16. He joined the North American Negro Theatre landing his breakthrough film role in 1950 as an incorrigible high school student in" Blackboard Jungle"( 1955). In 1958 Poitier starred with Tony Curtis in the critically acclaimed" The Defiant Ones" as chained- together convicts who escape and must cooperate. Each received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, with Poitier's being the first for a black actor, as well as nominations for the BAFTAs, which Poitier won. Sir Sidney Poitier,( born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian- American actor and film director. In 1964 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in" Lilies of the Field"( 1963) in which he played a handyman who stays with and helps a group of German- speaking nuns build a chapel. Poitier also received critical acclaim for" A Raisin in the Sun"( 1961) and" A Patch of Blue"( 1965). He continued to break ground in three successful 1967 films, each dealing with issues of race and race relations:" To Sir, with LoveGuess Who's Coming to Dinner", and" In the Heat of the Night", making him the top box- office star of that year. He received nominations for the Golden Globes and BAFTAs for the latter film, but not for the Oscars, likely due to vote splitting between his roles. After twice reprising his Virgil Tibbs character from" In the Heat of the Night" and acting in a variety of other films, including the thriller" The Wilby Conspiracy"( 1975), with Michael Caine, Poiter turned to acting/ directing with the action- comedies" Uptown Saturday Night"( 1974)," Let's Do It Again"( 1975), and" A Piece of the Action"( 1978), all co-starring Bill Cosby. During a decade away from acting he directed the successful" Stir Crazy"( 1980) starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, among other films. He returned to acting in the late 1980s and early 1990s in a few thrillers and television roles. Poitier was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974. In 2009 Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor. In 2016, he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for outstanding lifetime achievement in film. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Poitier 22nd on their list of Greatest Male Stars of classic Hollywood cinema. In 2002 Poitier was chosen to receive an Academy Honorary Award, in recognition of his" remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being". <SEP> It Rains in My Village( or literal translation" The End of the World Is Nigh") is a 1968 Yugoslav film by Serbian director Aleksandar Petrović, partly inspired by the novel Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky.