Oliver Stone
- Directing
- September 15, 1946 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American filmmaker. 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).
Known for
Filmography
- Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky · Self
- Robert Richardson: The White Devil · Self
- Breakdown: 1975 · Self
- Truth and Lies: Who Killed JFK? · Self
- RFK: Legacy · Self, Executive producer
- Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words · Self
- Oliver Stone: The Outsider · Self
- Lula · Self, Director
- The Tucker Carlson Show · Self
- Qazaq · Self, Producer
- Cannes Uncut · Self
- 100 Years of Warner Bros. · Self
- Nuclear Now · Self, Director
- Ennio · Self
- Icahn: The Restless Billionaire · Self
- Theaters of War · Self
- Michael Cimino, God Bless America · Self
- JFK: Destiny Betrayed · Self, Director
- JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass · Self / Narrator (Voice), Director
- Once Upon a Time in Queens · Self
- Val · Self
- Qazaq: History of the Golden Man · Self, Executive producer
- Oliver Stone : comment filmer la violence · Self
- Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony · Self
- Directors on Directors · Self
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend · Self
- Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood · Self
- The War on Cuba · Executive producer
- Le cinéma américain du sulfureux Oliver Stone · Self
- 1994 · Self
- Revealing Ukraine · Self, Executive producer
- Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic · Self
- Mooch · Self
- Once upon a time on Wall Street · Self
- The Putin Interviews · Self, Director
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone · Executive producer
- Snowden · Director, Screenplay
- Ukraine on Fire · Self, Executive producer
- Mindfulness: Be Happy Now · Self
- A Good American · Executive producer
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- French Cinema Mon Amour · Self
- Brand: A Second Coming · Self
- The Weight of Chains 2 · Self
- Hollywood Banker · Self
- Mystical Traveler: The Life and Times of Dr. John-Roger · Self
- My Friend Hugo · Self, Director
- Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka · Self
- The Ghosts of Jeju · Self
- Project Censored the Movie · Self
- Milius · Self
- LT: The Life & Times · Self
- Stanley Kubrick in Focus · Self
- The Untold History Of The United States · Narrator, Director
- Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States · Narrator, Executive producer
- Casting By · Self
- A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington · Self
- Greystone Park · Oliver
- Savages · Screenplay, Director
- Castro in Winter · Self, Director
- The Undefeated · Self
- Turning Like Clockwork · Self
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps · Director, Writer
- The Invocation · Self
- Rock Poet: Jim Morrison · Self
- South of the Border · Self, Director
- W. · Director
- Cannes: All Access · Self
- Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute · Self
- They Live by Night: The Twisted Road · Self
- Tension: Who's Guilty Now? · Self
- Side Street: Where Temptation Lurks · Self
- Crime Wave: The City Is Dark · Self
- World Trade Center · Director
- The Henry Rollins Show
- Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat · Self
- Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire · Self
- Refuge · Self
- Becoming Alexander · Self