Question: Which film has the director who was born first, Dear Goddamned Friends or Xanadu (Film)?

He was nominated six times for an Oscar. Mario Monicelli( 16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the" Commedia all' Italiana"( Comedy Italian style). <SEP> The film stars Olivia Newton- John, Gene Kelly( in his final film role), and Michael Beck, and features music by Newton- John, Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff Richard, and The Tubes. The title is a reference to the nightclub in the film, which takes its name from Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China. This city appears in" Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem that is quoted in the film. A box office disappointment," Xanadu" earned negative critical reviews and was an inspiration for the creation of the Golden Raspberry Awards to recognize the worst films of the year. Despite the lackluster performance of the film, the soundtrack album became a huge commercial success around the world, and was certified double platinum in the United States. The song" Magic" was a U.S. number one hit for Newton- John, and the title track( by Newton- John and Electric Light Orchestra) reached number one in the United Kingdom and several other countries around the world. Xanadu is a 1980 American musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel, and directed by Robert Greenwald. The film has since become a cult classic for the way it mixes the storyline from an old- fashioned 1940s fantasy with modern aesthetics featuring late 1970s and early 1980s rock and pop music on the soundtrack as well as for fans of Newton- John. <SEP> Robert Greenwald( born August 28, 1945) is the founder of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film and advocacy organization whose work is distributed for free in concert with nonprofit partners and movements in order to educate and mobilize for progressive causes. With Brave New Films, Greenwald has made investigative documentaries such as( 2004),( 2004),( 2005),( 2006)," Rethink Afghanistan"( 2009)," Koch Brothers Exposed"( 2012), and( 2013), as well as many short investigative films and internet videos. Before launching Brave Films in 2000, Greenwald produced and/ or directed more than 65 TV movies, miniseries and films as well as major theatrical releases. His early body of work includes" Steal This Movie!"( 2000), starring Vincent D'Onofrio as 60s radical Abbie Hoffman;" Breaking Up"( 1997), starring Russell Crowe and Salma Hayek;" A Woman of Independent Means"( 1995) with Sally Field;" The Burning Bed"( 1984) with Farah Fawcett; and" Xanadu"( 1980), for which he won the inaugural Golden Raspberry award for worst director. <SEP> Antonella Ponziani( born 29 February 1964) is an Italian actress. Born in Rome, she attended the academy Mimo Teatro Movimento, under the guidance of Lidia Biondi. She debuted in 1986, in Salvatore Samperi's" La Bonne", and appeared in Federico Fellini's" Intervista"( 1987) and as Donald Pleasence's daughter in Ruggero Deodato's 1988 giallo film" Phantom of Death". In 1992 Antonella Ponziani won a Silver Ribbon for Best Actress and a David di Donatello in the same category for the film" Verso Sud". She appeared in the 1994 comedy" Dear Goddamned Friends", and won a Ciak d'oro for Best Supporting Actress in 1996 for her performance in" Ferie d' Agosto" by Paolo Virzì. In 1999 she debuted as director and screenwriter with the comedy film" L'ultimo Mundial", in which she also appeared as an actress. <SEP> Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. <SEP> It was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention. Dear Goddamned Friends is a 1994 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli.