Question: Do both Mean Creek and Notorious (1946 Film) films have the directors from the same country?

<P0-S0> Jacob Aaron Estes( born September 6, 1972) is an American screenwriter and film director. <SEP> <P1-S0> Mean Creek is a 2004 American coming- of- age psychological drama film written and directed by Jacob Aaron Estes and starring Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz, Trevor Morgan, Josh Peck, and Carly Schroeder. <P1-S1> It was produced by Susan Johnson, Rick Rosenthal, and Hagai Shaham. <P1-S2> The film is about a group of teenagers who devise a plan to humiliate an overweight, troubled bully on a boating trip. <P1-S3> When their plan goes too far, they have to deal with the unexpected consequences of their actions. <P1-S4> The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 15, 2004, and was later screened at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2004. <P1-S5> It was then given a limited release in major US cities on August 20, 2004, mostly playing at art house theaters. <SEP> <P2-S0> Notorious is a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation. <P2-S1> It was shot in late 1945 and early 1946, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures in August 1946. <P2-S2> " Notorious" is considered by critics and scholars to mark a watershed for Hitchcock artistically, and to represent a heightened thematic maturity. <P2-S3> His biographer, Donald Spoto, writes that Notorious" is in fact Alfred Hitchcock's first attempt—at the age of forty- six—to bring his talents to the creation of a serious love story, and its story of two men in love with Ingrid Bergman could only have been made at this stage of his life." <P2-S4> In 2006," Notorious" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". <SEP> <P3-S0> Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock,( 13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema. <P3-S1> Known as" the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology" Alfred Hitchcock Presents"( 1955 – 1965). <P3-S2> His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins. <P3-S3> His first successful film,( 1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film," Blackmail", was the first British. <P3-S4> Two of his 1930s thrillers," The 39 Steps"( 1935) and" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century. <P3-S5> By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood. <P3-S6> A string of successful films followed, including" Rebecca"( 1940)," Foreign Correspondent"( 1940)," Suspicion"( 1941)," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943), and" Notorious"( 1946). <P3-S7> The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film" is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot. <P3-S8> After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with" Strangers on a Train"( 1951) and" Dial M For Murder"( 1954). <P3-S9> By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time:" Rear Window"( 1954)," Vertigo"( 1958)," North by Northwest"( 1959), and" Psycho"( 1960) with the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations. <P3-S10> In 2012," Vertigo" replaced Orson Welles's" Citizen Kane"( 1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world- wide poll of hundreds of film critics. <P3-S11> He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died. <SEP> <P4-S0> Denise Bosc( July 19, 1916 – March 9, 2002) was a French film actress. <P4-S1> She starred in the 1946 film" The Sea Rose". <SEP> <P5-S0> Mr. Hex is a 1946 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. <P5-S1> It is the fifth film in the series.