Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone
Birthday	Sunday, September 15, 1946
Birthplace	New York City
Nationality	American
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, producer

Stone, Oliver

(1946– ) movie director, screenwriter; born in New York City. Dropping out of Yale in 1965, he taught English and history in Saigon, Vietnam, as a civilian; he returned to Vietnam with the U.S. Army (1967–68) and was wounded in combat. He studied at the film school of New York University and went on to write screenplays; he won a 1978 Oscar for Midnight Express but subsequent screenplays were for mostly forgettable action films. He then wrote and directed two highly regarded movies, Salvador (1986) and Platoon (1987); the latter won him Oscars for best director and best picture. Established as a serious director, he produced and directed a series of commercially successful but often edgy movies, the most controversial being JFK (1991), his highly partisan account of the assassination of President Kennedy.

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In other words, Oliver Stone drew on the tradition of historical positivism to present a counter-historical narrative and to put forward his own historical interpretation.

PAST IMPERFECT: HISTORY, IDEOLOGY, AND THE CULTURE OF CONSPIRACY IN OLIVER STONE'S PRESIDENTIAL TRILOGY

STONE THE CROWS: Bolivian president Evo Morales kicking a ball around in the new Oliver Stone documentary Picture by PA Photo/Jose Ibanez/Dogwoof Films

Stone is rocking the boat

Hundreds of cameras flashed at the luxury beachside resort Madinat Jumeirah, as Oliver Stone and Goldie Hawn and Ben Affleck appeared on the red carpet.

Hollywood, Bollywood and Arab stars open Dubai film fest

Unusually for Oliver Stone - whose previous films such as Platoon, JFK and even Natural Born Killers were angry and non-traditional - World Trade Center is an awkward and unsatisfying flag-waving affair.

ZERO FOR A 9/11; Stone's terror dud FILM OF THE WEEK

The colossal horror of Ground Zero strains the imagination, but director Oliver Stone does a masterful job of recreating the acrid, stygian darkness that became the world for officers McLoughlin and Jimeno.

A tribute to heroes: World Trade Center takes us back to 9/11 to remind us of the bravery and heroism of the police officers, firefighters, and civilians who responded to the attacks that day

Later this year Oliver Stone will weigh in with World Trade center.

The way we live now

As for us I can only hope we have a little more sense and see this Oliver Stone epic for what it is.

SHOWBITCH IRELAND: I'm not ice cold on Alex

A recent release exhibiting this trend is the would-be blockbuster Alexander, director Oliver Stone's take on the life of Alexander 0the Great.

Homosexual propaganda in movies

While it is true that our national debt is massive and largely the result of long-term structural problems in fiscal policy, to blame it "mostly" on war profiteering is a conspiracy theory that even Oliver Stone wouldn't touch.

Of money and militarism

Far from the tidy narratives of Oliver Stone in his film JFK or James Ellroy in his American Tabloid, the "narrative" constituted by these paintings was shot through by doubt, fragmented by the sequencing of the canvases and rendered illegible and almost abstract by webs of pixels and dots a la Sigmar Polke: historical painting, then, not as truth but as question.

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Wall Street (Twentieth Century Fox, 1987) Oliver Stone looks under the rock of the American Dream and finds some nasty stuff in this morality play about avarice and corruption.

Wall Street