Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone | |
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 Stone at the Cannes Film Festival, 2010 | |
| Born | William Oliver Stone September 15, 1946 |
| Occupation(s) | Movie director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Spouse(s) | Najwa Sarkis (m. 1971–1977, divorced) Elizabeth Burkit Cox (m. 1981–1993, divorced) Sun-jung Jung (m. 1996–present) |
| Children | Sean, Michael, Tara |
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American movie director, producer, writer and actor. He was born in New York City and raised in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and early 1990s, for directing a series of movies about the Vietnam War. He was in the war as an infantry soldier. Stone's movies are often about political and cultural issues.
Filmography
[change | change source]As director
[change | change source]| Year | Film | Academy Award nominations | Academy Award wins | Golden Globe nominations | Golden Globe wins | BAFTA nominations | BAFTA wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Seizure | ||||||
| 1981 | The Hand | ||||||
| 1986 | Salvador | 2 | |||||
| 1986 | Platoon | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 1987 | Wall Street | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1988 | Talk Radio | ||||||
| 1989 | Born on the Fourth of July | 8 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | |
| 1991 | The Doors | ||||||
| 1991 | JFK | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 1993 | Heaven & Earth | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1994 | Natural Born Killers | 1 | |||||
| 1995 | Nixon | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 1997 | U Turn | ||||||
| 1999 | Any Given Sunday | ||||||
| 2003 | Comandante | ||||||
| 2004 | Alexander | ||||||
| 2004 | Looking for Fidel | ||||||
| 2006 | World Trade Center | ||||||
| 2008 | W. | ||||||
| 2009 | South of the Border | ||||||
| 2010 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | 1 | |||||
| 2012 | Savages |
As actor
[change | change source]- Battle of Love's Return (1971)
- Platoon (1986) (cameo)
- Wall Street (cameo) (1987)
- The Doors (1991) (cameo)
- Dave (cameo) (1993)
- Any Given Sunday (1999)
- Torrente 3: El Protector (cameo) (2005)
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (cameo) (2010)
- Graystone (film) (actor) (2011)
Screenwriter only
[change | change source]- Midnight Express (1978)
- Conan the Barbarian (with John Milius) (1982)
- Scarface (1983)
- Year of the Dragon (with Michael Cimino) (1985)
- 8 Million Ways to Die (with David Lee Henry) (1985)
- Evita (with Alan Parker) (1996)
Producer/executive producer only
[change | change source]- Sugar Cookies (1973)
- Blue Steel (1989)
- Reversal of Fortune (1990)
- From Hollywood to Hanoi (1992)
- Zebrahead (1992)
- South Central (1992)
- Wild Palms (1993) (TV)
- The Joy Luck Club (1993)
- The New Age (1994)
- Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995) (TV)
- Freeway (1996)
- The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
- Cold Around the Heart (1996)
- Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)
- Gravesend (1997)
- The Last Days of Kennedy and King (1998)
- Savior (1998)
- The Corruptor (1999)
- The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001) (TV)
- Comandante (2003)
- Persona Non Grata (2003)
Other websites
[change | change source]- Oliver Stone on IMDb
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