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Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) ( September 30 1895 - September 25 1980) was an accomplished, and award-winning motion picture director. He was born in Chisinau, Moldova, although at the time it was the Russian city of Kishinev, and 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.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 gangsterGangsters are members of a professional crime organization, i. Famous examples of such organizations include the Mafia, Crips, Yakuza and Triad. Gangsters typically run their operations as a pseudo-business in that they do offer some product or service, a film, and later helped Hughes direct scenes for his aviation saga Hell's AngelsHells Angels (without an apostrophe) is the motorcycle club Hell's Angels (movie) is the 1930 aviation movie directed by Howard Hughes. (for which he never received credit).
Milestone won his second Academy AwardBob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. The Academy Awards (often better known as Oscars) are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a p for All Quiet on the Western FrontA Novel written in 1929 by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues in German), clearly elucidates not only the horrors of contemporary warfare, but also the deep detachment from German c, a screen adaptation of the antiwar novel by Erich Maria RemarqueErich Maria Remarque ( June 22, 1898 September 25, 1970) was the pseudonym of Erich Paul Remark a German author. Remarque was born in Osnabruck, Germany into a working-class family. At the age of eighteen he went as a soldier to the front lines of World W. His next, The Front PageThe Front Page was originally a play written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. It has been adapted to film several times: The 1931 film The Front Page was one of the first movies nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, in 1931. Its screenplay, brought the Ben HechtBen Hecht ( February 28, 1894 April 18, 1964) was one of the most prolific of all Hollywood screenwriters, even though he professed hatred and disdain for the motion picture industry. Life and Hollywood Hecht was raised in Racine, Wisconsin, and as a youn/ Charles MacArthurCharles MacArthur ( November 5, 1895 April 21, 1956) was an American playwright and screenwriter, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his play with Ben Hecht, The Front Page which has been filmed frequently. It was based in part on MacArt play to the screen. It earned him another Oscar nomination. He worked extensively in television from the mid 1950s.
1 Milestone's Academy Award nominations
