question: Gary Halvorson and Alejandro Amenábar, have which occupation in common?
answer: film director
context: Title: Italy (Everybody Loves Raymond)
  Passage: "Italy" is the two-part season five premiere of the American television sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond".  Constituting the 100th and 101st overall episodes of the series, they were written by the creator Philip Rosenthal and directed by Gary Halvorson.  In this episode of the show, which revolves around the life of Italian-American "Newsday" sportswriter Raymond Barone and his oddball family, his parents, Marie and Frank, announce that they're all going to Italy to visit the former's cousin Colletta, and everyone is excited to go except Raymond.  Meanwhile, during the trip, Ray's brother Robert is attracted to a woman named Stefania, and tries to get past her father Signore Focagnolo to meet her.  With part one originally airing on October 2, 2000 and the concluding half on October 9, both on CBS, the episode has earned positive reviews from critics and received a Writers Guild of America Award.
  Title: The Sea Inside
  Passage: The Sea Inside (Spanish: "Mar adentro" ) is a 2004 Spanish drama film written, produced, directed, and scored by Alejandro Amenábar, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.  It is based on the real-life story of Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem), who was left quadriplegic after a diving accident, and his 28-year campaign in support of euthanasia and the right to end his life.
  Title: Vanilla Sky
  Passage: Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Cameron Crowe.  It is an English-language adaptation of Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 Spanish film "Open Your Eyes", which was written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil, with Penélope Cruz reprising her role from the original film.  The film has been described as "an odd mixture of science fiction, romance and reality warp".
  Title: Eduardo Noriega (Spanish actor)
  Passage: Eduardo Noriega Gómez (] ; born 1 August 1973) is a Spanish film actor.  He is perhaps best known for his roles in two of Alejandro Amenábar's films: the multiple Goya Award-winning "Tesis" (English: "Thesis" ) (1996) and "Open Your Eyes" (Spanish: 'Abre los Ojos' ) (1997).  He also starred in "The Wolf" (Spanish: "El Lobo") (2004).  In the United States, Noriega is probably best known for his role as Enrique in the political thriller "Vantage Point" (2008).
  Title: Tesis
  Passage: Tesis ("Thesis") is a 1996 Spanish thriller film.  It is the feature debut of director Alejandro Amenábar, and was written by Amenabar and Mateo Gil.  The film was made while he was still studying at Universidad Complutense in Madrid The movie won seven 1996 Goya Awards, including the award for Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director.  It stars Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez and Eduardo Noriega.
  Title: Guy Hendrix Dyas
  Passage: Guy Hendrix Dyas (born 20 August 1968) is a British production designer for feature films.  He collaborated with Christopher Nolan on his science fiction thriller "Inception" which earned him an Academy Award nomination as well as a BAFTA Award for Best Production Design.  In 2017, Dyas was nominated for another Academy Award, this time for his work on Passengers.  In 2010, Dyas became the first British designer to win a Goya Award for Best Production Design for his work on Alejandro Amenábar's historical epic "Agora" which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.  Dyas previously received three consecutive Art Directors Guild Award nominations for his production design work on Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", Shekhar Kapur's "" and "Superman Returns" for Bryan Singer.  He won an ADG award in 2011 for "Inception".  He also earned a BAFTA Award nomination in 2007 for Best Production Design for "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and for four years in a row Dyas has been named by "The Sunday Times" as one of the top ten Brits working behind the camera in Hollywood.
  Title: Gary Halvorson
  Passage: Gary Halvorson is an American director of television shows, series and film.
  Title: Agora (film)
  Passage: Agora (Spanish: "Ágora" ) is a 2009 Spanish English-language historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil.  The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a female mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it.  Surrounded by religious turmoil and social unrest, Hypatia struggles to save the knowledge of classical antiquity from destruction.  Max Minghella co-stars as Davus, Hypatia's father's slave, and Oscar Isaac as Hypatia's student, and later prefect of Alexandria, Orestes.
  Title: Alejandro Amenábar
  Passage: Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972), commonly known as Alejandro Amenábar, is a Spanish and Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer.  Among other honors, he has won nine Goyas, two European Film Awards and an Oscar.  He has written or co-written the screenplays to all six of his movies and composed almost all of the soundtracks.
  Title: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
  Passage: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland is a 1999 American-German musical fantasy-comedy film directed by Gary Halvorson.  It is the second theatrical feature-length film based on the popular U.S. children's series "Sesame Street", the first being "Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird" in 1985.  Produced by Jim Henson Pictures in association with Sesame Workshop and released by Columbia Pictures on October 1, 1999, the film co-stars Mandy Patinkin and Vanessa Williams.  The film was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina, at EUE/Screen Gems in 1998.  This is one of the few "Sesame Street" productions directly produced by Jim Henson Pictures.  Alongside "Muppets from Space", this the final Muppet-themed feature film to have the involvement of Frank Oz, who retired from being a full-time puppeteer the following year.
citations: Gary Halvorson Alejandro Amenábar