Question: Do both directors of films It Happens Every Spring and American Movie have the same nationality?

He is best known for directing" American Movie", which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Smith completed his first film," American Job", while attending the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee's Graduate Film Program. He was nominated for a" Someone to Watch Award" from the Independent Spirit Awards. Smith met Mark Borchardt, the subject of" American Movie", while editing" American Job", and began filming a documentary about the making of Borchardt's psychological thriller" Coven". Chris Smith( born 1970) is an American filmmaker. Both films played at the Sundance Film Festival, and" American Movie" was bought by Sony Pictures for$ 1 million. Smith wrote and directed the documentary" Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened"( 2019) about the Fyre Festival fraud. It was released on Netflix on January 18, 2019. <SEP> Valentine Loewi Davies( August 25, 1905 – July 23, 1961) was an American film and television writer, producer, and director. His film credits included" Miracle on 34th Street"( 1947)," Chicken Every Sunday"( 1949)," It Happens Every Spring"( 1949)," The Bridges at Toko- Ri"( 1954), and" The Benny Goodman Story"( 1955). He was nominated for the 1954 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for" The Glenn Miller Story". <SEP> It Happens Every Day is a 1930 German film directed by Hans Natge and Adolf Trotz. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hermann Warm. <SEP> As a director he made films in virtually all genres, including westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, and crime dramas. He was one of the directors at Warner Bros. in the 1930s who helped give that studio its reputation for gritty, fast-paced "torn from the headlines" action films. And, in directing Warner Bros.' "42nd Street", he joined the movie's song-and-dance-number director, Busby Berkeley, in contributing to "an instant and enduring classic [that] transformed the musical genre." Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director. <SEP> The film chronicles the real 1996 – 97 making of" Coven", an independent horror film directed by filmmaker Mark Borchardt. Produced for the purpose of raising capital for another film that Borchardt intends to make, the epic" Northwestern, Coven" suffers from numerous setbacks, including poor financing, a lack of planning, Borchardt's burgeoning alcoholism, and the ineptitude of the friends and family Borchardt hires as his production team. American Movie is a 1999 documentary film directed by Chris Smith. The documentary follows Borchardt's filmmaking process from script to screen, and is interspersed with footage from both developing projects. " American Movie" was produced by Sarah Price and edited by Jun Diaz and Barry Poltermann. Filming for" American Movie" began in September 1995 and concluded in August 1997. The film was a critical success upon its debut and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and has since gone on to be considered a cult film. <SEP> The story of a baseball pitcher is completely fictitious, and the main character King Kelly is not based on or related to the actual player. It Happens Every Spring is a 1949 American comedy film starring Ray Milland and directed by Lloyd Bacon.