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. thaklos Pacino brings enough character for three movies, and his over the top performance makes this moderately boring topic worth following. Shep The scene where they cut in clips from the Ben Hur chariot race to inject some drama is a good example of Oliver Stone's approach here. Excess is layered on top of excess in the hope that nobody will notice that the story and characters are dull and insincere. You come out feeling like you've been kicked around a stadium - and not in a good way. Stain Oliver Stone really blew it with this one. He really should have gotten his editors to calm down