Question: Do both directors of films Dark Horse (2011 Film) and Knife Skills have the same nationality?

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 90th Academy Awards. Knife Skills is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Thomas Lennon. <SEP> Dark Horse is a comedy- drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz. It stars Justin Bartha, Selma Blair, Mia Farrow, Jordan Gelber, Donna Murphy, Christopher Walken, Zachary Booth and Aasif Mandvi. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2011, and was released on June 8, 2012, by Brainstorm Media. <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> Todd Solondz( born October 15, 1959) is an American filmmaker and playwright known for his style of dark, socially conscious satire. Solondz's work has received critical acclaim for its commentary on" dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia," a reflection of his own background in New Jersey. His work includes" Welcome to the Dollhouse"( 1995)," Happiness"( 1998)," Storytelling"( 2001)," Palindromes"( 2004)," Life During Wartime"( 2009)," Dark Horse"( 2011), and" Wiener- Dog"( 2016). <SEP> Thomas Furneaux Lennon( born 1951) is a documentary filmmaker. Thomas F. Lennon's films, broadcast on PBS and HBO, have won an Academy Award and have been nominated for the Oscar four times. He has also received two George Foster Peabody Awards, two national Emmys and two DuPont- Columbia Journalism awards. With filmmaker Ruby Yang, he mounted a vast multi-year AIDS prevention campaign seen over a billion times on Chinese television. Together they made a trilogy of short documentary films about modern China, including" The Blood of Yingzhou District", which won an Oscar in 2007, and" The Warriors of Qiugang", nominated in 2011, which profiles an Anhui Province farmer's multi- year campaign to halt the poisoning of his village water by a nearby factory. He produced two historical series on PBS:" The Irish in America: Long Journey Home"( 1998) and" Becoming American: The Chinese Experience" with Bill Moyers( 2003). Three weeks after the Oscar nomination, the local government of Bengbu, in Anhui, announced a 200 million yuan( US$ 30 million) clean- up of the toxic site shown in the film. " The Battle Over Citizen Kane"( 1996) co-written with the late Richard Ben Cramer, marked his first Oscar nomination and was adapted into a fiction film," RKO 281", starring John Malkovich and Melanie Griffith. In 2017, he completed" Knife Skills" about the hectic launch of Edwins, an haute cuisine French restaurant in Cleveland, staffed by men and women recently released from prison; in January 2018, this was nominated for an Oscar. " Sacred"( 2016) explores the use of prayer and ritual in daily life. More than 40 filmmakers around the world contributed scenes to the film, which premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival and is due to be aired on PBS. Lennon lives and works in New York City. He is married to the medical researcher Joan Reibman, best known for her work on the health of 9/11 survivors. He is at times confused with the writer- comedian Thomas Lennon and has twice had to send back large royalty checks. <SEP> Dark Horse Entertainment is a motion picture and television production arm of American comic book publishing company Dark Horse Comics, founded in 1992. They also have a sub-label, Dark Horse Indie.