Lewis Milestone Movies

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Lewis Milestone (1895-1980) was a 2-time Oscar® winning Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer.  Milestone is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received Academy Awards® for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page , The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1939), Ocean’s 11 (1960), and Mutiny on the Bounty  (1962).  His IMDb page shows 53 directing credits from 1918 to 1964.   This page will rank Lewis Milestone movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles, and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings.

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Lewis Milestone Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Lewis Milestone Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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Ocean’s 11 (1960)

Possibly Interesting Facts About Lewis Milestone

1. Leib Milstein was born in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire in 1895.

2. Lewis Milestone arrived in the United States on 14 November 1913, just prior to World War I. He 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.

3. A device Lewis Milestone used in most of his war films–i.e., All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Edge of Darkness (1943), A Walk in the Sun (1945) and Pork Chop Hill (1959)–is the dolly shot that moves across infantry attacking toward the camera in echelon and being felled one at a time by machine-gun fire.

4. Lewis Milestone directed five Oscar® Best Picture nominees: The Racket (1928), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The Front Page (1931), Of Mice and Men (1939) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), with All Quiet on the Western Front winning Best Picture in 1930.

5. Lewis Milestone was a founding member of the Directors Guild.

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