Oliver Stone

Filmmaker

American·b. 1946

Known for: Platoon (1986), JFK (1991)

Oliver Stone served in the Vietnam War before writing Midnight Express (1978) and Scarface (1983) and then directing his own accounts of Vietnam — Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989) — for which he received Academy Awards for Best Director in consecutive years. He subsequently directed JFK (1991) and Nixon (1995), two films of political paranoia that generated significant public debate. He has also directed several controversial documentaries.

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