question: A Thousand Acres was directed by the writer and director of what nationality?
answer: Australian
context: Title: Two Thousand Acres of Sky
  Passage: Two Thousand Acres of Sky was a TV drama which aired on BBC Television from 2001 to 2003.  It is also syndicated in the United States on PBS.  It was created and written by Timothy Prager.  The Executive Producer was Adrian Bate.
  Title: Bateman's 'Great Landowners' (1883)
  Passage: John Bateman (1839–1910) published in 1883 the fourth edition of his 1876 The Acre-Ocracy of England retitled The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland, A list of all owners of Three thousand acres and upwards, worth £3,000 a year; Also, one thousand three hundred owners of Two thousand acres and upwards, in England, Scotland, Ireland, & Wales, their acreage and income from Land, Culled from 'THE MODERN DOMESDAY BOOK, under the Harrison imprint.  His source for the data was the government produced survey Return of Owners of Land, 1873, often known as the "Modern Domesday Book", the many errors in which he revised and corrected.  The preface to his work sets out many of the criticisms of the original 1873 Return and identifies some of the commonest errors contained in it.
  Title: T E Ranch Headquarters
  Passage: The T E Ranch Headquarters, near Cody, Wyoming, is a log ranch house that belonged to buffalo hunter and entertainer Buffalo Bill Cody (1846–1917).  The house may have originally been built by homesteader Bob Burns prior to 1895, when Cody acquired the ranch.  Cody expanded the ranch to about eight thousand acres (32 km²), using the T E brand for his thousand head of cattle.
  Title: 2014 California wildfires
  Passage: The 2014 California wildfire season saw several notable wildfires ignited in the state of California, especially during the month of May, when multiple fires were ablaze concurrently in Southern California, and during September, when several massive wildfires were burning in Northern California.  In the context of the 2012–15 North American drought (especially the 2011–15 California drought), as well as powerful Santa Ana winds, weather conditions were ideal for wildfires.  The season began unusually early when a wildfire ignited on January 1, followed by 6 more fires igniting later within the same month.  During a heat wave and dry Santa Ana conditions in May 2014, multiple wildfires broke out simultaneously in San Diego County, along with several other wildfires elsewhere in California.  By mid-May, fire officials said they had already dealt with 1,400 wildfires in California in 2014 - twice the normal amount for that time of year - and a spokesman for CAL FIRE described the conditions as "unprecedented."  The May 2014 San Diego County wildfires were estimated to have caused at least $60 million (2014 USD) in damage.  In late June to early August, another group of wildfires ignited across the state, some of which reached over twenty thousand acres in size.  In mid-September, the largest group of wildfires erupted, with some wildfires becoming larger than 50,000 acres in size.  In early September 2014, the Happy Complex Fire became the largest wildfire of the season, eventually topping out at 135369 acres in size on September 27.  On October 8, an aerial tanker crashed during a firefighting effort at the Dog Rock Fire, which killed the pilot and sparked a small wildfire.  From late September to late October, the latest flare-up of major wildfires were extinguished by cooler weather and precipitation.  From December 10–13, a powerful winter storm extinguished the remaining wildfires that were present.  In mid-December through late December, several more small wildfires sparked, but they were all extinguished by December 31.  A total of 5,620 wildfires ignited throughout the year, which burned at least 631434 acres of land.  The wildfires caused a total of 146 injuries and 2 fatalities, in addition to causing at least $184.02 million (2014 USD) in damage.
  Title: Endangered American Wilderness Act of 1978
  Passage: Endangered American Wilderness Act (Public Law 95-237) is a Federal law, enacted in 1978, that established ten new designated Wilderness Areas in the National Forests of several Western states.  Sponsored by Arizona Democrat Morris Udall, the law added approximately 400,000 thousand acres of wilderness in California, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming, to the National Wilderness Preservation System.  Other sections of the law established three new Wilderness Areas in Oregon and added additional acreage to two existing areas, and ordered the creation of a committee to develop a management plan for 330,000 acres of public land along the Salmon River in Idaho known as the Gospel-Hump area.
  Title: Himmelblå
  Passage: Himmelblå (in English: Skyblue) is a Norwegian drama series which aired on NRK1 in Norway, on SVT in Sweden and on RÚV in Iceland.  It is based on the British TV drama "Two Thousand Acres of Sky" written by Timothy Prager and produced by Adrian Bate.
  Title: Curry Hill Plantation
  Passage: The Curry Hill Plantation near Bainbridge, Georgia is a plantation begun in 1842 by Duncan Curry.  It was several thousand acres in size, and was a stage coach stop on the stage coach line between Thomasville and Bainbridge.  The Curry family lived in a log house at first, then in the 1850s lived in the former stage coach house while the main plantation house which stands today was built.  The main house was built in the 1850s and includes Greek Revival elements.
  Title: A Thousand Acres (film)
  Passage: A Thousand Acres is a 1997 American drama film directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards.
  Title: Lauderdale (Buchanan, Virginia)
  Passage: Lauderdale is a historic home located near Buchanan, Botetourt County, Virginia.  Lauderdale takes its name from the eighteenth century owner of the property, James Lauderdale Sr.  Lauderdale purchased 366 acres on Looney Mill Creek in 1749.  By the early 1780s, he owned over a thousand acres in Botetourt County, and in 1785 he was listed as the owner of a dwelling and three other buildings.  The home Lauderdale was built in 1790 by James Lauderdale Sr.  Lauderdale Sr. settled in the area in 1730, when the region was still in the possession of the Indians.  The mansion 'Lauderdale' was built near a spring,near which it is said that Lauderdale shot and killed an Indian during an attack on his home.  The plantation consisted of 1200 acres, Lauderdale is one of the largest houses in Botetourt.  There are thirty rooms within its walls.  The high ceilings and hand carved woodwork of the immense hallway,library, and drawing room make it one of the handsomest houses is Virginia.  The bricks on its walls were made by slaves on the place.  In 1796, Lauderdale sold 444 acres, including his residence to Col. Henry Bowyer (ca. 1760-1832).  Most references to Lauderdale incorrectly show the date of its construction as 1821, yet the Botetourt County Deed Book VI, page 36, clearly shows the subsequent owner of the mansion from Lauderdale's son, James Lauderdale Jr., a Col. Henry Bowyer, having purchased the home in 1796.
  Title: Jocelyn Moorhouse
  Passage: Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse (born 4 September 1960) is an Australian writer and film director.  She has directed films such as "Proof", "How to Make an American Quilt" and "A Thousand Acres".
citations: A Thousand Acres (film) Jocelyn Moorhouse