Question: Are director of film Victoria & Abdul and director of film More Sexy Canterbury Tales from the same country?

Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre. <SEP> Stephen Arthur Frears( born 20 June 1941) is an English film and television director. Frears has directed numerous films since the 1980s including" My Beautiful LaundretteDangerous Liaisons High Fidelity The QueenPhilomena", and" Florence Foster Jenkins". He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director: for" The Grifters" and" The Queen". In 2008" The Daily Telegraph" named him among the 100 most influential people in British culture. <SEP> Because D'Amato wanted to stay unaccredited as director, the directorial credit in the Italian version reads" Romano Gastaldi"- a pseudonym of Romano Scandariato( who acted as assistant director in this film)- and in the English version" Ralph Zucker." As cinematographer, D' Amato is credited under his birth name Aristide Massaccesi. More Sexy Canterbury Tales( also known as" More Filthy Canterbury Tales") is a 1972 Italian decamerotic comedy film directed and shot by Joe D'Amato, who also wrote the story and acts in a small part as one of the monks. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> D' Amato worked in the 1950s as electric and set photographer, in the 1960s as camera operator, and from 1969 onwards as cinematographer. Starting in 1972, he directed and co-directed around 200 films under numerous pseudonyms, regularly acting as cinematographer as well. Starting in the early 1980s, D'Amato produced many of his own and other directors' genre films through the companies he founded or co-founded, the best known being Filmirage. From 1979 to 1982 and from 1993 to 1999, D'Amato also produced and directed about 120 adult films. Among his best known erotic films are his five entries into the Black Emanuelle series of films starring Laura Gemser( 1976 – 1978) and his horror/ pornography crossover films" Erotic Nights of the Living Dead" and" Porno Holocaust"( both shot in Santo Domingo in 1979). In the horror genre, he is above all remembered for his films" Beyond the Darkness"( 1979) and" Antropophagus"( 1980), which have gained cult status, as well as" Absurd"( 1981). Aristide Massaccesi( 15 December 1936 – 23 January 1999), known professionally as Joe D'Amato, was an Italian film producer, director and cinematographer, who worked in many genres( westerns, decamerotici, peplum, war films, swashbuckler, comedy, fantasy, postapocalyptic film, and erotic thriller) but is best known for his horror, erotic and adult films. <SEP> The film is based on the book of same name by Shrabani Basu, about the real- life relationship between Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her Indian Muslim servant Abdul Karim. It stars Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Michael Gambon, Eddie Izzard, Tim Pigott- Smith( in his final film role), and Adeel Akhtar. The film had its world premiere at the 74th Venice Film Festival, and was theatrically released on 15 September 2017 in the United Kingdom. It has grossed over$ 65 million worldwide. The film was nominated for Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 90th Academy Awards, and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy( for Dench) at the 75th Golden Globe Awards. Victoria& Abdul is a 2017 British biographical comedy- drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Lee Hall.