Question: Do both directors of films Tequila Sunrise (Film) and The Dream Girl (Film) have the same nationality?

It stars Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, with Raul Julia, J. T. Walsh, Arliss Howard and Gabriel Damon in supporting roles. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin. The film, only the second (after "Personal Best") to be both written and directed by Oscar–winning screenwriter Towne, was commercially successful, making over $100 million at the box office worldwide, but critical reception was mixed. One reviewer was of the opinion that, "perhaps because the elements were so irresistible—Robert Towne directing Gibson, Russell and Pfeiffer in a California crime film—an aura of disappointment settled over "Tequila Sunrise", no matter how engaging, and profitable, it turned out to be." Tequila Sunrise is a 1988 American crime thriller film written and directed by Robert Towne. "Tequila Sunrise" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. The film's soundtrack spawned the hit single "Surrender to Me", performed by Ann Wilson (lead singer of Heart) and Robin Zander (lead singer of Cheap Trick), where it went to #6 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in early 1989. <SEP> Satan Town is a 1926 American Western film featuring Harry Carey. Prints of the film have survived. <SEP> Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer- director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films were more diverse in genre, among which included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants. De Mille began his career as a stage actor in 1900. He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer. DeMille's first film," The Squaw Man"( 1914), was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood. Its interracial love story made it commercially successful and it first publicized Hollywood as the home of the U.S. film industry. The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor. His first biblical epic," The Ten Commandments"( 1923), was both a critical and commercial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty- five years. De Mille directed" The King of Kings"( 1927), a biography of Jesus, which gained approval for its sensitivity and reached more than 800 million viewers. " The Sign of the Cross"( 1932) is said to be the first sound film to integrate all aspects of cinematic technique. " Cleopatra"( 1934) was his first film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. After more than thirty years in film production, DeMille reached a pinnacle in his career with" Samson and Delilah"( 1949), a biblical epic which became the highest- grossing film of 1950. Along with biblical and historical narratives, he also directed films oriented toward" neo-naturalism", which tried to portray the laws of man fighting the forces of nature. He received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama" The Greatest Show on Earth"( 1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. His last and best known film," The Ten Commandments"( 1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the eighth- highest- grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. In addition to his Best Picture Awards, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d' Or( posthumously) for" Union Pacific"( 1939), a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was named in his honor. Cecil Blount DeMille( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker. DeMille's reputation as a filmmaker has grown over time and his work has influenced many other films and directors. <SEP> The Dream Girl was a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Based on an original story by DeMille writer Jeanie MacPherson, the film starred Mae Murray and Theodore Roberts. The film is now considered lost. <SEP> Tequila Sunrise may refer to: <SEP> He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award- winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's" Chinatown"( 1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams's" Southern California Country: An Island on the Land"( 1946) and a" West" magazine article on Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Towne also wrote the sequel," The Two Jakes"( 1990); the Hal Ashby comedy- dramas" The Last Detail"( 1973) and" Shampoo"( 1975); and the first two films. Towne directed the sports dramas" Personal Best"( 1982) and" Without Limits"( 1998), the crime thriller" Tequila Sunrise"( 1988), and the romantic crime drama" Ask the Dust"( 2006). Robert Towne( born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor.