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 Wall Street is well shot and occasionally compelling, but in the end Stone chooses to sermonize rather than entertain. I would not mind being beaten with such an unbalanced hammer nearly as much if something significant was being said, but the film is rife with broad pleasantries and wary of troublesome specifics. The film's narrow vision also results in a number of characters who are nothing more than superfluous caricatures that illustrate some financial vice or victim.