Question: Do director of film Stealing Candy and director of film A Piece Of The Action (Film) have the same nationality?

Stealing Candy is a 2003 thriller film directed by Mark L. Lester and starring Daniel Baldwin. <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. 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. Sir Sidney Poitier,( born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian- American actor and film director. 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> A Piece of the Action is a 1977 American crime comedy film directed by and starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby. It was the third film pairing of Poitier and Cosby, following "Uptown Saturday Night" (1974) and "Let's Do It Again" (1975). The films are considered a trilogy, even though the actors play characters with different names in each film. It was also Poitier's last acting role for more than a decade, as he focused his attentions on directing only. <SEP> Mark L. Lester( born November 26, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known as a prolific director of cult films including the disco musical" Roller Boogie", the vigilante thriller film" Class of 1984", the Stephen King- adaptation" Firestarter"( 1984), the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film" Commando"( 1985), and the action- comedy" Armed and Dangerous"( 1986), starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Meg Ryan. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.