Question: Do both The Way We Laughed and Champagne (2014 Film) films have the directors from the same country?

Gianni Amelio( born 20 January 1945) is an Italian film director. <SEP> It tells the story of two Sicilian brothers, Giovanni and Pietro, who emigrate to the city of Turin. Giovanni works hard to help Pietro study to be a teacher, but Pietro does poorly. Then Pietro disappears. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The Way We Laughed( Italian language: Così ridevano) is a 1998 Italian film directed by Gianni Amelio. <SEP> The Way We Get By is a 2009 documentary film directed by Aron Gaudet and produced by Gita Pullapilly, about a group of senior citizens in Bangor, Maine who greet U.S. troops at the Bangor International Airport. " The Way We Get By" had its world premiere at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival, winning the Special Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film also won the Audience Award at the 2009 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the Standing Up Film Competition at the Cleveland International Film Festival, and the Best Documentary at the Atlanta, Little Rock, Naples, Phoenix, and Newport International Film Festivals. The film received a 2010 Cinema Eye nomination for Debut Feature Film. In May 2009, the film had its Maine premiere, one of the largest movie premieres in the state of Maine. Maine National Guard members lined outside the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus and greeted the subjects of the film and other greeters as they entered the auditorium. The Governor of Maine presented Gaudet with a special award recognizing the film. " The Way We Get By" aired on the critically acclaimed PBS series," POV" in November 2009 and August 3, 2010. The film has since been re-aired as part of the" America ReFramed" series on World channel, another network airing primarily public television programming. International Film Circuit released" The Way We Get By" in over 60 cities across the United States and Films Transit handled the international distribution. In October 2009," The Way We Get By" had a special screening on Capitol Hill. Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States, introduced the film and the entire Maine congressional delegation was present and honored the film. The next day, the film screened at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. During this trip, Gaudet, Pullapilly, and the three subjects of the film, received a special invitation to meet with Vice President Joseph Biden at the White House. AARP named" The Way We Get By" Best Documentary of 2009 in their ninth annual Movies For Grownups Awards. During the acceptance speech, Gaudet called Morgan Freeman up to the stage for a picture with his mother, Joan Gaudet, one of the stars in the film, making for one of the most memorable highlights of the evening. Gaudet and Pullapilly starting dating when they began making" The Way We Get By", their first feature- length film. In October 2009, Real Weddings Maine provided them with a high- end free wedding to celebrate all they had done to capture the heart of Maine. Over 60 vendors in the state provided their products and services. The wedding took place at the Retreat at French's Point. Their wedding was highlighted in the" New York Times" Vows Section as well as other popular national wedding magazines and blogs. <SEP> She has become known primarily for films in the English language, and is a dominant figure in that industry. Her second directed feature," Code of Silence", which deals with rape in Nigeria, was released in 2015. Emem Isong is a Nigerian screenwriter, film producer, and director. <SEP> It stars Majid Michel, Alexx Ekubo, Mbong Amata, Susan Peters, Tana Adelana, Kokotso Charlotte, and introduces Rosemary Zimu as Champagne. This is Emem Isong's first film as a director. Champagne is a 2014 Nigerian romantic thriller film, produced and directed by Emem Isong. The film tells the story of a young couple( Alex Ekubo and Rosemary Zimu), who are in an" open marriage"; To meet their financial needs as a family, they often date unsuspecting people, scam them, and run away. They eventually meet Mr Douglas( Majid Michel), who takes them on an unexpected ride. <SEP> The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic and drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Arthur Laurents wrote both the novel and screenplay based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un- American Activities Committee. A box office success, the film was nominated for several awards and won the Oscar for Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song for the theme song" The Way We Were". It ranked at number 6 on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Passions survey of the top 100 greatest love stories in American cinema. " The Way We Were" is considered one of the great romantic films. The soundtrack album became a gold record and hit the Top 20 on the" Billboard" 200 while the title song became a million- selling gold single, topping the" Billboard" Hot 100 respectively, selling more than two million copies. " Billboard" named" The Way We Were" as the number 1 pop hit of 1974. In 1998, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and finished at number 8 on the American Film Institute's" 100 Years ... 100 Songs" list of top tunes in American cinema in 2004. It also was included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.