Question: Do director of film In the Hive and director of film This Sporting Life share the same nationality?

He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film" if...", which won the" Palme d' Or" at Cannes Film Festival in 1969 and marked Malcolm McDowell's cinematic debut. Lindsay Gordon Anderson( 17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature- film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading- light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is also notable, though not a professional actor, for playing a minor role in the Academy Award- winning 1981 film" Chariots of Fire". McDowell produced a 2007 documentary about his experiences with Anderson," Never Apologize". <SEP> It was directed by Robert Townsend and released in the USA on December 14, 2012. In the Hive is a 2012 drama film starring Michael Clarke Duncan, Vivica A. Fox, and Jonathan McDaniel. <SEP> Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television. <SEP> Townsend is best known for directing the films" Hollywood Shuffle"( 1987)," Eddie Murphy Raw"( 1987)," The Meteor Man"( 1993)," The Five Heartbeats"( 1991) and various other films and stand- up specials. He is especially known for his eponymous self- titled character, Robert Peterson as the starring role as on The WB sitcom" The Parent' Hood"( 1995 – 1999), a series which he created and of which directed select episodes. Townsend is also known for his role as Donald" Duck" Matthews in his 1991 film" The Five Heartbeats." Robert Townsend( born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, director, comedian, and writer. He later wrote, directed and produced Making The Five Heartbeats( 2018), a documentary film about the production process and behind the scenes insight into creating the film. Townsend is also known for his production company Townsend Entertainment which has produced films" Playin' for LoveIn the Hive" and more. During the 1980s and early – 1990s, Townsend gained national exposure through his stand- up comedy routines and appearances on" The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". Townsend has worked with talent including Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Chris Tucker, Beyoncé, Denzel Washington and many more. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award, it recounts the story of a rugby league footballer, Frank Machin, in Wakefield, a mining town in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life. Storey, a former professional rugby league footballer, also wrote the screenplay. This Sporting Life is a 1963 British drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. The film stars Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell and Alan Badel. The film was Harris's first starring role, and won him the Best Actor Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. He was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Roberts won her second BAFTA award and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Harris was nominated for the BAFTA that year as well. The film opened at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 7 February 1963.