Question: Do both films Mallrats and The Sound of Music (film) have the directors that share the same nationality?

Margaret Preece is an English operatic soprano. She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio. Originally from Solihull, she has worked with English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North and the Carl Rosa Company. In 2007 she starred in the high- profile West End revival of" The Sound of Music" as the Mother Abbess, replacing Lesley Garrett. In 2008 Margaret Preece released an album called" Is n't It Romantic", which features 17 songs by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by both Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein, including" Is n't It Romantic?". Following the closure of" The Sound Of Music", she played Vava in Opera North's production of" Paradise Moscow" in spring 2009. There were performances in Leeds, Newcastle, Salford(" the Lowry"), Nottingham and Bregenz. In the summer, Preece reprised her role as the Mother Abbess in the UK Tour of" The Sound of Music", including performances at the Wales Millennium Centre. <SEP> He came to prominence with the low- budget comedy film" Clerks"( 1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob. Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in Smith's follow- up films" Mallrats Chasing AmyDogmaJay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and" Clerks II", which were set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. While not strictly sequential, the films frequently featured crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon described by fans as the" View Askewniverse", named after his production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier. Kevin Patrick Smith( born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, public speaker, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. Since 2011, Smith has mostly made films in the horror genre, including" Red State"( 2011) and the comedy horror films" Tusk"( 2014) and" Yoga Hosers"( 2016), two in a planned series of three such films set in Canada dubbed the" True North" trilogy. He has also served as a director- for- hire for material he did not write, including the buddy cop action comedy" Cop Out"( 2010) and various television series episodes. In 2019, he wrote and directed" Jay and Silent Bob Reboot", a follow- up to the original Jay and Silent Bob movies. Smith is the owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, a comic book store in Red Bank, New Jersey that is the subject of the reality television show" Comic Book Men"( 2012–2018). He also hosts the movie- review television show" Spoilers". As a podcaster, Smith co-hosts several shows on his own SModcast Podcast Network, including" SModcastFatman Beyond", and the live show" Hollywood Babble- On". Smith is well known for participating in long, humorous Q&A sessions that are often filmed for DVD release, beginning with" An Evening with Kevin Smith". <SEP> Connie Fisher (born 17 June 1983) is a British actress, singer and TV presenter, who won the BBC One talent contest, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" On 15 November 2006, she opened to excellent reviews in the part of Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" in the West End, London on a six-month contract, which was extended until 23 February 2008. She resumed the role of Maria in "The Sound of Music" UK tour starting in July 2009. She had a recurring role as a patient in the British medical drama series "Casualty" in 2012. <SEP> The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the memoir" The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she marries the officer and together with the children find a way to survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis. The film was released on March 2, 1965, in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release. Although critical response to the film was mixed, the film was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office movie after four weeks, and the highest- grossing film of 1965. By November 1966," The Sound of Music" had become the highest- grossing film of all- time — surpassing" Gone with the Wind" — and held that distinction for five years. The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box- office records in twenty- nine countries. Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of$ 286,000,000. " The Sound of Music" received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film also received two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. In 1998, the American Film Institute( AFI) listed" The Sound of Music" as the fifty- fifth greatest American movie of all time, and the fourth greatest movie musical. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. <SEP> He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both "West Side Story" (1961) and "The Sound of Music" (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for "Citizen Kane" (1941) and directed and produced "The Sand Pebbles" (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture. Among his other films are "The Body Snatcher" (1945), "Born to Kill" (1947), "The Set-Up" (1949), "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), "Destination Gobi" (1953), "This Could Be The Night" (1957), "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958), "I Want to Live!" (1958), "The Haunting" (1963), "The Andromeda Strain" (1971), "The Hindenburg" (1975) and  (1979). Wise was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1971 to 1975 and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1984 through 1987. Robert Wise has been viewed as a craftsman, inclined to let the (sometimes studio-assigned) story concept set the style. Later "cineastes", such as Martin Scorsese, insist that despite Wise's legendary workaday concentration on stylistic perfection within the confines of genre and budget, his choice of subject matter and approach still functioned to identify Wise as an artist and not merely an artisan. Wise achieved critical success as a director in a striking variety of film genres: horror, noir, western, war, science fiction, musical and drama, with many repeat successes within each genre. Wise's meticulous preparation may have been largely motivated by studio budget constraints, but advanced the moviemaking art. Robert Wise received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998. Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer, and editor. <SEP> Mallrats is a 1995 American romantic buddy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Shannen Doherty, Claire Forlani, Ben Affleck, Jason Mewes, Joey Lauren Adams, Michael Rooker, and Smith himself. It is the second film in the View Askewniverse after 1994's "Clerks", although, chronologically, "Mallrats" takes place a day before. As in the other Askewniverse films, the characters Jay and Silent Bob feature prominently, and characters and events from other films are discussed. Several cast members, including Jason Lee, Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren Adams, have gone on to work in several other Smith films. Comic-book icon Stan Lee appeared, as did Brian O'Halloran, the star of Smith's breakout feature "Clerks". Despite failing at the box office and receiving a lukewarm critical reception, "Mallrats" has since become a cult classic. Plans for a sequel, "MallBrats", were announced in March 2015. In June 2016, Smith announced that the sequel would instead be a 10-episode TV series; in February 2017, Smith announced that he had not been able to sell the TV series to any network, and the sequel was shelved indefinitely.