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Full articleLewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein; September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-born American film director of Jewish descent who emigrated to the United States in 1912 and became a two-time Academy Award winner for directing. Milestone's breakthrough came with the World War I comedy Two Arabian Knights (1927), earning him the first Academy Award for Best Director in the comedy category at the inaugural Oscars ceremony. His adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) won him a second Oscar for Best Director and the film secured Outstanding Production, noted for its pioneering use of sound to depict the horrors of trench warfare and its unflinching anti-war message. Over a career spanning four decades, Milestone directed more than 40 features, including adaptations like The Front Page (1931), Of Mice and Men (1939), and A Walk in the Sun (1945), often emphasizing realism, social commentary, and the human cost of conflict, though his later works faced challenges from Hollywood's blacklist era.
In brief
Lewis Milestone (born Leib Mendelevich Milstein; Russian: Лейб Менделевич Мильштейн; September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), with a third nomination for The Front Page (1931). Milestone's other notable directing credits included The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1939), The North Star (1943), A Walk in the Sun (1945), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Pork Chop Hill (1959), Ocean's 11 (1960), and his final film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
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