Question: Do both directors of films Snowfall in Taipei and New York, New York (1977 film) share the same nationality?

Melvin" Mel" Damski( born July 21, 1946 in New York, New York) is an American director and producer of film and television. <SEP> Like the cinematographer turned director Gu Changwei, Huo Jianqi began his cinematic career in the art department. Nearly all of Huo's films have been written by his wife and collaborator, Qiu Shi, who works under the name" Si Wu." Unlike many of his contemporaries( and predecessors), Huo Jianqi( born January 20, 1958) is a Chinese film director. Huo rarely has had issues with the Chinese government regarding his films, leading some western critics to label him the" darling director of China's film bureaucracy." <SEP> New York, New York is a 1977 American musical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Mardik Martin and Earl Mac Rauch based on a story by Rauch. It is a musical tribute, featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well as jazz standards, to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and lovers. The story is" about a jazz saxophonist( De Niro) and a pop singer( Minnelli) who fall madly in love and marry"; however, the" saxophonist's outrageously volatile personality places a continual strain on their relationship, and after they have a baby, their marriage crumbles", even as their careers develop on separate paths. The film marked the final screen appearance of actor Jack Haley. <SEP> Snowfall in Taipei is a 2010 Chinese- Hong Kong- Taiwanese- Japanese romance film directed by Huo Jianqi and starring Chen Bolin, Tong Yao, Morning Tzu- Yi Mo, and Tony Yang. The film is based on the Japanese novel of the same name by Chikayo Tashiro. The film premiered in Japan on February 20, 2010. <SEP> Elizabeth Cuthrell is a writer, producer and co-founder of Evenstar Films, a New York City- based Production company. <SEP> Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinematic history. Scorsese's body of work explores such themes as Italian- American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Martin Charles Scorsese( born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker and actor, whose career spans more than 50 years. Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d' Or, Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Directors Guild of America Awards. He has directed works such as the crime film" Mean Streets"( 1973), the vigilante- thriller" Taxi Driver"( 1976), the biographical sports drama" Raging Bull"( 1980), the black comedies" The King of Comedy"( 1983) and" After Hours"( 1985), the religious epic" The Last Temptation of Christ"( 1988), the crime film" Goodfellas"( 1990), the psychological thriller" Cape Fear"( 1991), the historical romantic drama" The Age of Innocence"( 1993) and the crime epics" Casino"( 1995) and" The Irishman"( 2019), most of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro. Scorsese has also been noted for his successful collaborations with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, having directed him in five films, beginning with" Gangs of New York"( 2002) and most recently" The Wolf of Wall Street"( 2013). Their third film together," The Departed"( 2006), won Scorsese the Academy Award for Best Director in addition to the film winning the award for Best Picture. Scorsese's other film work includes the biographical drama" The Aviator"( 2004), the psychological thriller" Shutter Island"( 2010), the historical adventure drama" Hugo"( 2011), and the religious epic" Silence"( 2016). His work in television includes the pilot episodes of the HBO series" Boardwalk Empire" and" Vinyl", the latter of which he also co-created. With eight Best Director Oscar nominations, he is the most -nominated living director and is tied with Billy Wilder for the second- most nominations overall. As a fan of rock music, he has directed several documentaries on the subject, including" The Last Waltz"( 1978)," No Direction Home"( 2005)," Shine a Light"( 2008),( 2011), and( 2019).