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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 ).