Question: Are director of film Cloverfield and director of film Buddy Buddy both from the same country?

Cloverfield is a 2008 American monster horror film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J.J. Abrams, and written by Drew Goddard. The film stars Michael Stahl- David, Odette Yustman, T.J. Miller, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, and Mike Vogel. The film uses a found footage motif to follow five young New York City residents fleeing from a massive monster and various other smaller creatures that attack the city while they are having a farewell party. Development began when producer J. J. Abrams started conceptualizing a new monster and enlisted Neville Page to design the creature, referred to as Clover. In February 2007, the project was secretly greenlit by Paramount Pictures and produced by Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. Principal photography took place in Los Angeles that same year. During production, the project went under several working titles, including" SlushoCheese" and" Greyshot". As part of a viral marketing campaign, a teaser trailer was released ahead of screenings of" Transformers" without a title attached. The film's official title was revealed in a second teaser trailer attached to screenings of" Beowulf". With limited details revealed about the film prior to release, it garnered online speculation, including forums and websites dedicated to uncovering any hidden information about the film. Several tie-ins, including a prequel manga series, were released as part of the film's marketing campaign. " Cloverfield" was released on January 18, 2008 and received positive reviews from film critics. Many praised Reeves' direction and the film's cinéma vérité style narrative. It earned$ 170.8 million worldwide at the box office against a$ 25 million budget. The film served as the first installment of the" Cloverfield" franchise, followed by" 10 Cloverfield Lane" in 2016 and" The Cloverfield Paradox" in 2018. <SEP> Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre. <SEP> Buddy Buddy is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder that stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on the 1973 French language film" L'emmerdeur", which screenwriter Francis Veber had adapted from his play" Le contrat". The film proved to be the last directed by Wilder, who in later years said," If I met all my old pictures in a crowd, personified, there are some that would make me happy and proud, and I would embrace them ... but" Buddy Buddy" I'd try to ignore." . <SEP> He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema. With" The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film. Billy Wilder( born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian- born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the romantic comedy" Ninotchka", starring Greta Garbo. Wilder established his directorial reputation with an adaption of James M. Cain's" Double Indemnity"( 1944), a film noir. Wilder co-wrote the screenplay with crime novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story" The Lost Weekend"( 1945), about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed" Sunset Boulevard", as well as" Stalag 17" in 1953. From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies. Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces" The Seven Year Itch"( 1955) and" Some Like It Hot"( 1959), and satires such as" The Apartment"( 1960). He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar- nominated performances. Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute( AFI) Life Achievement Award in 1986. In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> After several years working in film and television, Reeves made his cinematic directorial debut with" The Pallbearer"( 1996), starring David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow and Toni Collette. Matt Reeves( April 27, 1966) is an American filmmaker. He came to widespread attention with the mainstream hit" Cloverfield"( 2008), going on to helm the romantic horror film remake" Let Me In"( 2010) and the critically acclaimed science fiction sequels" Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"( 2014) and" War for the Planet of the Apes"( 2017). Reeves will write and direct the superhero film" The Batman", which is set in the DC Extended Universe and slated for release in 2021.