Question: Which film whose director was born first, General Babka or Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind?

He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film" Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", a film he also directed. Michel Gondry( born 8 May 1963) is a French director, screenwriter, and producer noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. His other films include the surrealistic science fantasy comedy" The Science of Sleep"( 2006), the comedy" Be Kind Rewind"( 2008), the superhero action comedy" The Green Hornet"( 2011), the drama" The We and the I"( 2012), and the romantic science fantasy tragedy" Mood Indigo"( 2013). He is well known for his music video collaborations with Daft Punk, Donald Fagen, Radiohead, Björk, Beck, The Chemical Brothers, Kylie Minogue and The White Stripes. <SEP> Charles Stuart Kaufman( born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, lyricist, and novelist. He wrote the films" Being John Malkovich"( 1999)," Adaptation"( 2002), and" Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"( 2004). He made his directorial debut with screenplay" Synecdoche, New York"( 2008), which was also well- received; film critic Roger Ebert dubbed it" the best movie of the decade" in 2009. One of the most celebrated screenwriters of his era, Kaufman has been nominated for four Academy Awards: twice for Best Original Screenplay for" Being John Malkovich" and" Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"( winning for the latter), Best Adapted Screenplay( with his fictional brother) for" Adaptation", and Best Animated Feature for" Anomalisa". He also won two BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplays and one BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Three of Kaufman's scripts appear in the Writers Guild of America's list of the 101 greatest movie screenplays ever written. <SEP> General Babka is a 1924 Austrian film directed by Michael Curtiz. <SEP> Michael Curtiz (born Manó Kaminer(1886-1905) He directed classic films from the silent era and numerous others during Hollywood's Golden Age, when the studio system was prevalent. Curtiz was already a well-known director in Europe when Warner Bros. invited him to Hollywood in 1926, when he was 39 years of age. He had already directed 64 films in Europe, and soon helped Warner Bros. become the fastest-growing movie studio. He directed 102 films during his Hollywood career, mostly at Warners, where he directed ten actors to Oscar nominations. James Cagney and Joan Crawford won their only Academy Awards under Curtiz's direction. Mihály Kertész (1905); December 24, 1886 April 11, 1962) was a Hungarian-born American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history. He put Doris Day and John Garfield on screen for the first time, and he made stars of Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Bette Davis. He himself was nominated five times and won twice, once for Best Short Subject for "Sons of Liberty" and once as Best Director for "Casablanca". Curtiz introduced to Hollywood a unique visual style using artistic lighting, extensive and fluid camera movement, high crane shots, and unusual camera angles. He was versatile and could handle any kind of picture: melodrama, comedy, love story, film noir, musical, war story, Western, or historical epic. He always paid attention to the human-interest aspect of every story, stating that the "human and fundamental problems of real people" were the basis of all good drama. Curtiz helped popularize the classic swashbuckler with films such as "Captain Blood" (1935) and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938). He directed many dramas which today are also considered classics, "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), "The Sea Wolf" (1941), "Casablanca" (1942), and "Mildred Pierce" (1945). He directed leading musicals, including "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), " This Is the Army" (1943), and "White Christmas", and he made comedies with "Life With Father" (1947) and "We're No Angels" (1955). <SEP> Valdís Óskarsdóttir( born 1950 in Akureyri, Iceland) is an Icelandic film editor whose work includes" The CelebrationLes Misérables Finding Forrester" and" Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". She received multiple awards in early 2005 for her work on" Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". In addition, she has twice won the Danish Film Academy's Robert Award for Best Editing. " Sveitabrúðkaup", her directorial debut, premiered in Iceland in August 2008. <SEP> It follows an estranged couple who have erased each other from their memories. Pierre Bismuth created the story with Kaufman and Gondry. The ensemble cast includes Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, and Tom Wilkinson. The title of the film is a quotation from the 1717 poem" Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American romantic science fiction tragicomedy film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry. The film uses elements of the psychological thriller and a nonlinear narrative to explore the nature of memory and romantic love. It opened in North America to wide acclaim on March 19, 2004, and grossed over$ 70 million worldwide. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and Winslet received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress. The film developed a cult following in the years after its release and has come to be regarded by many critics as one of the best films of the 21st century.