question: Which American director is older, Lee Daniels or Barry Sonnenfeld?
answer: Barry Sonnenfeld
context: Title: Lee Daniels
  Passage: Lee Louis Daniels (born December 24, 1959) is an American producer and director.  He produced "Monster's Ball" and directed "Precious", which received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Director; it won two of the awards.
  Title: Pilot (Empire)
  Passage: "Pilot" is the pilot episode of the American musical drama television series "Empire", which premiered on Fox on January 7, 2015.  The show focuses on Lucious Lyon, the head of a record label who is diagnosed with ALS and given three years to live.  While keeping his condition a secret, he decides to find a successor that will take over the company.  Meanwhile, his ex-wife Cookie Lyon comes out of jail and demands a part of the company she founded.  The episode was directed by Lee Daniels and written by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong.  Over 12 original songs, produced by Timbaland, were featured in the episode.
  Title: RV (film)
  Passage: RV is a 2006 American family comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick, written by Geoff Rodkey, and starring Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, Josh Hutcherson, Kristin Chenoweth, and Jeff Daniels.  Bob Munro and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies, where they ultimately have to contend with a bizarre community of campers.  It was released on April 28, 2006, in North America, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on August 15, 2006.
  Title: Empire (season 4)
  Passage: The fourth season of the American television drama series "Empire" premiered on September 27, 2017, in the United States on Fox.  The fourth season was ordered on January 11, 2017, consisting of eighteen episodes.  The show is produced by 20th Century Fox, in association with Imagine Entertainment, Lee Daniels Entertainment, Danny Strong Productions and Little Chicken Inc.  The showrunners for this season are Ilene Chaiken, Danny Strong and Lee Daniels.  The season will air on Wednesday at 8:00 pm, a new slot.  The premiere of the season will also crossover with "Star".
  Title: Big Trouble (2002 film)
  Passage: Big Trouble is a 2002 American comedy film based on the novel "Big Trouble" by Dave Barry.  It was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and featured a large cast including Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Dennis Farina, Zooey Deschanel, Sofia Vergara and Jason Lee.  Like much of Dave Barry's fiction, it follows a diverse group of people through a series of extremely strange and humorous situations against the backdrop of Miami.
  Title: The Butler
  Passage: The Butler (full title Lee Daniels' The Butler) is a 2013 American historical drama film directed and produced by Lee Daniels and written by Danny Strong.  Loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen, the film stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African-American who is a witness of notable political and social events of the 20th century during his 34-year tenure serving as a White House butler.  In addition to Whitaker, the film's all-star cast also features Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Alex Pettyfer, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Lenny Kravitz, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber, Robin Williams, Minka Kelly, Mariah Carey and Clarence Williams III.  It was the last film produced by Laura Ziskin, who died in 2011.
  Title: Barry Sonnenfeld
  Passage: Barry Sonnenfeld (born April 1, 1953) is an American filmmaker and television director.  He worked as cinematographer for the Coen brothers, then later he directed films such as "The Addams Family" and its sequel, "Addams Family Values" along with the "Men in Black" trilogy, and the critically acclaimed "Get Shorty".  Sonnenfeld has also had four collaborations with Will Smith.
  Title: Men in Black 3
  Passage: Men in Black 3 (alternatively known as Men in Black III and stylized as MIB³) is a 2012 American 3D comic science fiction-action film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin.  It is the third installment in the "Men in Black" film series based on Lowell Cunningham's "The Men in Black" comic book series published by Marvel and Malibu Comics.  It was released fifteen years after the original "Men in Black" (1997) and ten years after the first sequel, "Men in Black II" (2002).  Sonnenfeld and Steven Spielberg returned as director and executive producer, respectively.  In the film, Boris the Animal, an old enemy of Agent K, escapes from prison and goes back in time to kill the younger K in order to allow his species, a ruthless alien race known as Boglodites, to attack Earth.  This forces Agent J to go back in time and team up with K's younger counterpart on a mission to save his partner and the world.
  Title: Empire (season 3)
  Passage: The third season of the American television drama series "Empire" premiered on September 21, 2016, in the United States on Fox.  The third season was ordered on January 15, 2016.  The show is produced by 20th Century Fox, in association with Imagine Entertainment, Lee Daniels Entertainment, Danny Strong Productions and Little Chicken Inc.  The showrunners for this season are Ilene Chaiken, Danny Strong and Lee Daniels.  The season airs on Wednesday at 9:00 pm, the same slot as the previous seasons.  The season concluded on May 24, 2017 and contained 18 episodes.
  Title: Empire (season 2)
  Passage: The second season of the American television drama series "Empire" premiered on September 23, 2015, in the United States on Fox.  The season was ordered on January 17, 2015.  The show is produced by 20th Century Fox Television, in association with Imagine Entertainment, Lee Daniels Entertainment, Danny Strong Productions and Little Chicken Inc.  The showrunners for this season are Ilene Chaiken, Danny Strong and Lee Daniels.  The season aired on Wednesday at 9:00 pm, the same slot as the previous season.
citations: Barry Sonnenfeld Lee Daniels