Oliver Stone

Directing · Born 1946-09-15 in New York City, New York, USA

Biography

William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) 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).

Filmography

• Ennio as Self
• The Doors as UCLA Film Professor
• Born on the Fourth of July as News Reporter
• Wall Street as Trader - Office
• Platoon as Alpha Company Major in Bunker (uncredited)
• They Live by Night: The Twisted Road as Self
• Dave as Oliver Stone
• JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as Self / Narrator (voice)
• Jim Brown: All-American as Self
• Comandante as Self

TV

• E! True Hollywood Story as Self
• The Henry Rollins Show
• Once Upon a Time in Queens as Self
• Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States as Narrator
• 100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self
• The Putin Interviews as Self
• Independent Focus as Self
• JFK: Destiny Betrayed as Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1994 as Self (archive footage)
• Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)