Who has more Academy Award nominations, Whit Stillman or Janusz Nasfeter?
Whit Stillman John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (born January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director known for his 1990 film "Metropolitan", which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 1998 romantic drama "The Last Days of Disco". Stillman's newest film "Love & Friendship" premiered in January 2016, starring Kate Beckinsale playing a widow trying to arrange two marriages, one for herself and one for her daughter.
Norman Stillman Norman Arthur Stillman, also Noam (נועם, in Hebrew), b. 1945, is the Schusterman-Josey Professor and Chair of Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma. He specializes in the intersection of Jewish and Islamic culture and history, and in Oriental and Sephardi Jewry, with special interest in the Jewish communities in North Africa. His major publications are "The Jews of Arab Lands: a History And Source Book" and "Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity". In the last few years, Stillman has been the executive editor of the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, a project that includes over 2000 entries in 5 volumes.