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Stone has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), ] for Platoon (1986) and the Best Director twice for Platoon (1986), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), He has also received a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, five Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of ...
William Oliver Stone (born () September 15, 1946) is an American filmmaker. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Stone is known as a controversial but acclaimed director, tackling subjects ranging from the Vietnam War , and American politics to musical biopics and crime dramas .
The 59th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 30, ... Platoon – Oliver Stone;
The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 89 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 68 won the award. [7] [8] Since its inception, the award has been given to 75 directors or directing teams.
Many reviews for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” noted that the film felt like the director’s own version of Oliver Stone’s sprawling historical epic “JFK,” and now Stone himself ...
Academy Awards: Best Picture: Arnold Kopelson: Won Best Director: Oliver Stone: Won Best Supporting Actor: Tom Berenger: Nominated Willem Dafoe: Nominated Best Original Screenplay: Oliver Stone Nominated Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson: Nominated Best Film Editing: Claire Simpson: Won Best Sound: John K. Wilkinson, Richard Rogers ...
The 51st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), ... Oliver Stone, Best Adapted Screenplay winner.
Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American epic biographical anti-war drama film that is based on the 1976 autobiography of Ron Kovic.Directed by Oliver Stone, and written by Stone and Kovic, it stars Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, and Willem Dafoe.