Christoph Waltz to direct first feature

4:26 PM PDT 3/18/2010 by Alex Ben Block, AP

'Up and Away' is based on his own script

Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, whose career is red hot after winning the best supporting actor Oscar as a Nazi officer in "Inglorious Basterds," will make his feature directing debut on the German-language movie "Auf Und Davon" ("Up and Away"), based on a script he wrote. Waltz also might play a role.