Question: Do both directors of films Gunman's Walk and Thieves Like Us (film) share the same nationality?

Phil Karlson( born Philip N. Karlstein; July 2, 1908 – December 12, 1982) was an American film director. Karlson directed" 99 River StreetKansas City Confidential" and" Hell's Island", all with actor John Payne, in the early 1950s. Other films include" The Texas Rangers"( 1951)," The Phenix City Story"( 1955)," 5 Against the House"( 1955)," Gunman's Walk"( 1958)," The Young Doctors"( 1961) and" Walking Tall"( 1973). <SEP> Gunman's Walk is a 1958 American CinemaScope Technicolor Western film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Van Heflin and Tab Hunter. <SEP> A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema. His style of filmmaking covered many genres, but usually with a "subversive" twist which typically relied on satire and humor to express his personal views. Altman developed a reputation for being "anti-Hollywood" and non-conformist in both his themes and directing style. However, actors especially enjoyed working under his direction because he encouraged them to improvise, thereby inspiring their own creativity. He preferred large ensemble casts for his films, and developed a multitrack recording technique which produced overlapping dialogue from multiple actors. This produced a more natural, more dynamic, and more complex experience for the viewer. Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He also used highly mobile camera work and zoom lenses to enhance the activity taking place on the screen. Critic Pauline Kael, writing about his directing style, said that Altman could "make film fireworks out of next to nothing." In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Altman's body of work with an Academy Honorary Award. He never won a competitive Oscar despite seven nominations. His films "MASH" (1970), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), and "Nashville" (1975) have been selected for the United States National Film Registry. Altman is one of the few filmmakers whose films have won the Golden Bear at Berlin, the Golden Lion at Venice, and the Golden Palm at Cannes. <SEP> Thieves Like The film was based on the novel" Thieves Like Us" by Edward Anderson, which was also the source material for the 1948 film" They Live by Night", directed by Nicholas Ray. The supporting cast includes Louise Fletcher and Tom Skerritt. The film was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. Us is a 1974 American neo- noir crime road film directed by Robert Altman and starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall. <SEP> Emmett Evan" Van" Heflin Jr.( December 13, 1908 – July 23, 1971) was an American theatre, radio and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. Heflin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in" Johnny Eager"( 1942). He also had memorable roles in Westerns such as" Shane"( 1953),( 1957), and" Gunman's Walk"( 1958). <SEP> They Live by Night is a 1948 American film noir directed by Nicholas Ray( his first feature film) and starring Farley Granger as" Bowie" Bowers and Cathy O'Donnell as" Keechie" Mobley. It was based on Edward Anderson's Depression era novel" Thieves Like Us". Although the film is considered by many to be the prototype for the" couple on the run" genre, and is generally seen as the forerunner to the movie" Bonnie and Clyde", the first telling of the story was actually the 1939" Persons in Hiding", based on the J. Edgar Hoover memoir of the same title. Robert Altman directed a remake using the original title of the novel," Thieves Like Us"( 1974).