 Lewis Milestone (qv) won an Oscar, then called the First Award,  for Direction (Comedy Picture), the first and only year that  category appeared in the Academy Awards. Milestone beat the only  other nominee in the category, Ted Wilde (qv) for  Harold Lloyd (qv)s _Speedy (1928)_ (qv). Charles Chaplin (qv)  had originally been announced as a Best Comedy Director nominee for  _Circus, The (1928)_ (qv), but subsequently was removed from the  category (his nomination for Best Actor also was rescinded) and  given a special Honorary Award. Milestone won a second Oscar for  directing _All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)_ (qv), which  featured Louis Wolheim (qv) in a World War I setting, and was  nominated one more time, for _Front Page, The (1931)_ (qv).