Oliver Stone 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). 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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User Comments You must Log in or Register to post comments. dings An example of how a solid acting performance can be not good enough for a demanding script. This and the Oliver Stone-typical machismo which can make that of the works of the Bruckheimers pale in comparision. Stain This is a lot more conservative and non-fight-picking than I was expecting from Oliver Stone. All the same, this is quite a story, and it's made very well