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Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) (September 30 1895 - September 25 1980) was an Academy Award-winning motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1940), Ocean's Eleven (1960), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). Milestone was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Imperial Russia (now Chişinău), Moldova). He came to the United States just prior to World War I. Milestone held a number of odd jobs before enlisting in the U.S. Signal Corps, where he worked as an assistant director on Army training films during the war. In 1919 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
   After the war he went to Hollywood, where he first worked as a film cutter, and later as an assistant director. Howard Hughes promoted Milestone to director, and one of his early efforts, the 1928 film Two Arabian Knights, won him an Oscar in the first Academy Award ceremony. He also directed The Racket, an early gangster film, and later helped Hughes direct scenes for his aviation saga Hell's Angels (for which he never received credit).
   Milestone won his second Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, a harrowing screen adaptation of the antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque. His next, The Front Page, brought the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play to the screen. It earned him another Oscar nomination. His work during the 1930s and 1940s was always easily identifiable by its lighting and imaginative use of fluid camera. He worked extensively in television from the mid 1950s.
   Lewis Milestone died in 1980, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Academy Award nominations

1940 Nominated Of Mice and Men
1931 Nominated The Front Page
1930 Won All Quiet on the Western Front
1929 Won Two Arabian Knights

Filmography as a director

1963 – "Arrest and Trial" (television) series

1962 – Mutiny on the Bounty

1960 – Ocean's Eleven

1959 – Pork Chop Hill

1957 – "Have Gun — Will Travel" (television series)

1954 – La Vedova X

1954 – They Who Dare

1953 – Melba

1952 – Kangaroo

1952 – Les Misérables

1950 – Halls of Montezuma

1949 – The Red Pony

1948 – No Minor Vices

1948 – Arch of Triumph

1946 – The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1945 – A Walk in the Sun

1944 – The Purple Heart

1944 – Guest in the House

1943 – The North Star

1943 – Edge of Darkness

1941 – My Life with Caroline

1940 – Lucky Partners

1939 – The Night of Nights

1939 – Of Mice and Men

1936 – The General Died at Dawn

1936 – Anything Goes (film)

1935 – Paris in Spring

1934 – The Captain Hates the Sea

1933 – Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

1932 – Rain

1931 – The Front Page

1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front

1929 – Betrayal

1929 – New York Nights

1928 – The Racket

1928 – Tempest (uncredited)

1928 – The Garden of Eden

1927 – Two Arabian Knights

1927 – The Kid Brother (uncredited)

1926 – Fine Manners (uncredited)

1926 – The New Klondike

1926 – The Caveman

1925 – Seven Sinners

1919 – Fit to Win

1918 – Positive

1918 – Posture

1918 – The ToothbrushFurther Information

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