Question: Which film has the director born first, The Captive (2014 Film) or The Stolen Ranch?

The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos, Kevin Durand, and Alexia Fast. It was selected to compete for the Palme d' Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released in select theaters and on demand on December 12, 2014. The Captive, formerly Queen of the Night and Captives, is a 2014 Canadian thriller film directed by Atom Egoyan with a script he co-wrote with David Fraser. The film has a nonlinear presentation, and only context differentiates the current scenes from the flashbacks. Additionally, although the film takes place over eight years, all of the scenes take place during winter for dramatic effect. <SEP> Egoyan made his career breakthrough with" Exotica"( 1994), a film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club. Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film is the drama" The Sweet Hereafter"( 1997), for which he received two Academy Award nominations, and his biggest commercial success is the erotic thriller" Chloe"( 2009). His work often explores themes of alienation and isolation, featuring characters whose interactions are mediated through technology, bureaucracy, or other power structures. Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information. In 2008, Egoyan received the Dan David Prize for" Creative Rendering of the Past". Egoyan later received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest royal honour in the performing arts, in 2015. Atom Egoyan,( born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian stage and film director, writer, and producer. He was part of a loosely- affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. <SEP> The Stolen Ranch is a 1926 American western film directed by William Wyler and starring Fred Humes, Louise Lorraine and William Bailey. The future star Janet Gaynor appeared as an extra in the film. <SEP> Peyton Kennedy( born January 4, 2004) is a Canadian teen actress. She is best known for her role as Betty Nelson on the ABC television drama series," Grey ’s Anatomy( 2005- current)." She is also known for her film roles in" The Captive"( 2014)," American Fable"( 2016), and" Lavender"( 2016). She played Kate Messner in the Netflix series," Everything Sucks!"( 2018), where she played a 15- year- old girl who is trying to figure out her sexuality. She is also known for her role as Dr O in Odd Squad. <SEP> Notable works include "Ben-Hur" (1959), "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), and "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), all of which won Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as Best Picture in their respective years, making him the only director of three Best Picture winners as of 2019. Wyler received his first Oscar nomination for directing "Dodsworth" in 1936, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor, "sparking a 20-year run of almost unbroken greatness." William Wyler (born Willi Wyler ; July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Film historian Ian Freer calls Wyler a "bona fide perfectionist", whose penchant for retakes and an attempt to hone every last nuance, "became the stuff of legend. " His ability to direct a string of classic literary adaptations into huge box-office and critical successes made him one of "Hollywood's most bankable moviemakers" during the 1930s and 1940s and into the '60s. Through his talent for staging, editing, and camera movement, he turned dynamic theatrical spaces into cinematic ones. He helped propel a number of actors to stardom, finding and directing Audrey Hepburn in her Hollywood debut film, "Roman Holiday" (1953), and directing Barbra Streisand in her debut film, "Funny Girl" (1968). Both of these performances won Academy Awards. He directed Olivia de Havilland to her second Oscar in "The Heiress" (1949) and Laurence Olivier in "Wuthering Heights" (1939), for his first Oscar nomination. Olivier credited Wyler with teaching him how to act for the screen. And Bette Davis, who received three Oscar nominations under his direction and won her second Oscar in "Jezebel" (1938), said Wyler made her a "far, far better actress" than she had ever been. Other popular Wyler films include: "Hell's Heroes" (1929), "Dodsworth" (1936), "The Westerner" (1940), "The Letter" (1940), "Friendly Persuasion" (1956), "The Big Country" (1958), "The Children's Hour" (1961) and "How to Steal a Million" (1966). <SEP> Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.