Oscar Nominated Screenwriter/Director John Milius Joins Hollywood Advisory Committee, Scheduled to Screen Film Classic During Festival

Internationally renown as one of the premier screenwriters and directors in Hollywood , John Milius has joined the GI Film Festival’s Hollywood Advisory Committee. Milius is also scheduled to screen one of his classic films during the festival, to be held Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-28, 2007 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington , DC .

A graduate of USC’s School of Cinema-Television, John Milius has written and/or directed 32 films including Dillinger, Jeremiah Johnson, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, Apocalypse Now, Conan, Flight of the Intruder, Red Dawn, and Clear and Present Danger.

A passionate supporter of the military, Milius was nominated for an Academy Award, along with Francis Ford Coppola, for writing Apocalypse Now, which The New York Times hailed as “one of most influential war movies ever made.” The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards in all. Milius’ 1984 cult classic film Red Dawn, in which a group of American teenagers fend of a Soviet invasion, made news nearly ten years after its release, in December 2003, in connection with the capture of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The American commander of the operation to capture Hussein was a fan of Milius' film, causing him to call the military operation which captured Saddam Hussein Operation Red Dawn.

"I'm a very efficient director - it's my training in military tactics. I've trained my whole life to be a general but I never could. So I became the next best thing, a movie director." – Oscar Nominated Screenwriter, Director John Milius.

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