Who directed the film for which Vincent Gardenia received his second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor?
Vincent Gardenia Vincent Gardenia (born Vincenzo Scognamiglio; January 7, 1920 – December 9, 1992) was an Italian-American stage, film, and television actor. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for "Bang the Drum Slowly" (1973) and again for "Moonstruck" (1987). He also portrayed Det. Frank Ochoa in "Death Wish" (1974) and its 1982 sequel, as well as Mr. Mushnik in the musical film adaptation of "Little Shop of Horrors" (1986).
Mississippi Mermaid Mississippi Mermaid (French: "La sirène du Mississipi" ) is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Adapted from the 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness" by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. When she arrives it is not the same woman in the photo, but he marries her anyway. Filmed in southern France and Réunion island, "Mississippi Mermaid" was the 17th highest-grossing film of the year in France with a total of 1,221,027 admissions. It was remade in 2001 as "Original Sin", directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas.