Overview
Oliver Stone
Known For
Icahn: The Restless Billionaire
Explore the contradictions at the heart of famed financier Carl...
Michael Cimino, God Bless America
A road-movie narrated by Michael Cimino (recorded by the documentary's...
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991),...
Biography
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). 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).