Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone is an American director born in New York City, celebrated for confrontational, politically charged films that reexamined some of the most contested chapters of recent American history. Platoon, drawn from his own experience as a Vietnam War infantryman, won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director and established his visceral, personally invested approach to war narrative. Wall Street and Natural Born Killers turned a similarly aggressive style toward corporate greed and media-fueled violence, while JFK used a fragmented, densely edited structure to advance a conspiracy-driven account of President Kennedy's assassination that provoked enormous public controversy. Stone's willingness to fuse historical subject matter with an openly polemical, formally aggressive style made him one of the most politically confrontational directors of his generation.
Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone is an American director born in New York City, celebrated for confrontational, politically charged films that reexamined some of the most contested chapters of recent American history. Platoon, drawn from his own experience as a Vietnam War infantryman, won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director and established his visceral, personally invested approach to war narrative. Wall Street and Natural Born Killers turned a similarly aggressive style toward corporate greed and media-fueled violence, while JFK used a fragmented, densely edited structure to advance a conspiracy-driven account of President Kennedy's assassination that provoked enormous public controversy. Stone's willingness to fuse historical subject matter with an openly polemical, formally aggressive style made him one of the most politically confrontational directors of his generation.
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Platoon
1986
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Alexander
2004
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Natural Born Killers
1994
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Wall Street
1987
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Born on the Fourth of July
1989
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Any Given Sunday
1999
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JFK
1991
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The Doors
1991
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Snowden
2016
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
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Savages
2012
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World Trade Center
2006
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Heaven & Earth
1993
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U Turn
1997
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Nixon
1995
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W.
2008
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The Hand
1981
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Talk Radio
1988
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Salvador
1986
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Seizure
1974
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Last Year in Viet Nam
1971
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Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Oliver Stone and where are they from?
Oliver Stone is 79 years old, born on September 15, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.
What are the most famous roles of Oliver Stone?
Oliver Stone is best known for directing Scarface, Platoon, Snowden.
How many movies has Oliver Stone directed?
Over a 56-year career (since 1970), Oliver Stone has directed or written 27 films and worked on 1 TV shows.
What was Oliver Stone's first movie?
The career of Oliver Stone began with White Lies ().
What is Oliver Stone's most recent movie or series?
Oliver Stone's most recent release is Lula, which premiered on May 19, 2024.
What TV shows has Oliver Stone created or directed?
On television, Oliver Stone has appeared in The Putin Interviews, Wild Palms, Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States, JFK: Destiny Betrayed.
Oliver Stone
1946-09-15 · New York City, New York, USA
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American filmmaker. 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).