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Oliver Stone
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William Oliver Stone is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone became known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially. He has received three Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), and Best Director for Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). The British newspaper The Guardian described him as "one of the few committed men of the left working in mainstream American cinema." Stone's movies often use many different cameras and film formats, including VHS, 8 mm film, and 70 mm film. He sometimes uses several formats in a single scene, as in Natural Born Killers (1994) and JFK (1991).
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William Oliver Stone is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone became known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially. He has received three Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), and Best Director for Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). The British newspaper The Guardian described him as "one of the few committed men of the left working in mainstream American cinema." Stone's movies often use many different cameras and film formats, including VHS, 8 mm film, and 70 mm film. He sometimes uses several formats in a single scene, as in Natural Born Killers (1994) and JFK (1991).
Known For
Saturday Night Live
E! True Hollywood Story
Real Time with Bill Maher
100 Years of Warner Bros.
1994
Wall Street
Any Given Sunday
Platoon
Dave
Empire of the Censors
Born on the Fourth of July
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
The Doors
Val
LT: The Life & Times
Becoming Alexander
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
The Putin Interviews
Looking for Fidel
The Untold History Of The United States
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Production Credits
Any Given Sunday
JFK
Wall Street
Evita
The Corruptor
Born on the Fourth of July
Blue Steel
Snowden
Looking for Fidel
Platoon
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
The Untold History Of The United States
Conan the Barbarian
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
The Day Reagan Was Shot
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
Natural Born Killers
The Putin Interviews
The Doors
Malcolm X
Nixon
Scarface
World Trade Center
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