Question: Do both directors of films Julia (1977 film) and Yo Yo share the same nationality?

He won four Academy Awards for directing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and play adaptations. He made 25 feature films during his 50- year career. He was among the first directors to insist on using authentic locations and for mixing stars with civilians to give his films more realism. Within the film industry, he was considered a maverick for taking risks and there by creating unique films, with many of his stories being dramas about lone and principled individuals tested by tragic events. According to one historian, Zinnemann's style demonstrated his sense of" psychological realism and his apparent determination to make worthwhile pictures that are nevertheless highly entertaining." Among his films were" The Search"( 1947)," The Men"( 1950)," High Noon"( 1952)," From Here to Eternity"( 1953)," Oklahoma!"( 1955)," The Nun's Story"( 1959)," A Man For All Seasons"( 1966)," The Day of the Jackal"( 1973), and" Julia"( 1977). His films have received 65 Oscar nominations, winning 24. Alfred Zinnemann( April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian- born American film director. Zinnemann directed and introduced a number of stars in their U.S. film debuts, including Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Pier Angeli, Julie Harris, Brandon de Wilde, Montgomery Clift, Shirley Jones and Meryl Streep. He directed 19 actors to Oscar nominations, including Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell. <SEP> Steve Brown( born 1976 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an award- winning competitive yo- yo player, competition judge, yo- yo designer, and yoyo blogger currently based out of North Olmsted, Ohio. He is currently the editor for YoYoNews.com and a co-producer of the Triple Crown of YoYo events. In 2001, the National Yo- Yo League named him as one of eight National Yo- Yo masters. He has designed multiple yo- yos, including the" Cherry Bomb" for Team Losi. While employed by Duncan Toys Company as marketing and promotions coordinator, Brown invented and patented freehand yo- yo play where instead of being attached to the finger, the string is actually attached to a counterweight, and designed a line of yo- yos for the new style. He also authored a book called" Duncan Yo- Yo Trick Book" while employed by the company. A regular competitor in the 1990s, he has moved out of competing in most venues and has shifted his focus to judging. His skill with yo- yos also landed him a job as a stuntman on the 2001 movie" Zoolander", work as a consultant on" The Lone Ranger( 2013 film)" where he developed and taught several of the actors the pocket watch trick that features prominently in the film, and led to an appearance on" The Best Damn Sports Show Period". <SEP> The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. Yo Yo, original title Yoyo, is a 1965 French comedy film by Pierre Étaix. After losing his fortune in the stock- exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown. The film was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. <SEP> Étaix made a series of short- and feature- length films, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean- Claude Carrière. He won an Academy Award for best live action short film in 1963. Pierre Étaix( 23 November 1928 – 14 October 2016) was a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. Due to a legal dispute with a distribution company, his films were unavailable from the 1970s until 2009. As an actor, assistant director and gag writer, Étaix worked with the likes of Jacques Tati, Robert Bresson, Nagisa Oshima, Otar Iosseliani and Jerry Lewis, the last of whom cast the comedian in his unreleased film" The Day the Clown Cried". <SEP> Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris. The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors. <SEP> It is based on a chapter from Lillian Hellman's book" Pentimento" about the author's relationship with a lifelong friend," Julia," who fought against the Nazis in the years prior to World War II. The film stars Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Maximilian Schell and Meryl Streep( in her film debut). " Julia" was released theatrically on October 2, 1977 by 20th Century Fox. Upon release the film received generally positive reviews and grossed$ 20.7 million against its$ 7 million budget. Julia is a 1977 American Holocaust drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann, from a screenplay by Alvin Sargent. It received a leading 11 nominations at the 50th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and won 3 awards, Best Supporting Actor( for Robards), Best Supporting Actress( for Redgrave) and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film also received a leading 10 nominations at the 32nd British Academy Film Awards and won the highest 4 including Best Film.