Oliver Stone
Biography
William Oliver Stone is an American film director and screenwriter. 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).
CritifyHub Reviews Featuring Oliver Stone
Shadows of Truth: Oliver Stone’s JFK as a Cinematic Crucible
Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991) is less a historical document than a fevered alchemical brew, transmuting raw skepticism into a mesmerizing inquiry about truth and power. Anchored by Kevin Costner’s steely ... Read more
The Fever Dream of Fury: Natural Born Killers as a Chaotic Mirror
Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994) is a Molotov cocktail of a film, a frenetic, kaleidoscopic assault on the senses that doesn’t so much tell a story as detonate one. Born from a Quentin Taran... Read more
Directed Movies
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Acted Movies
Written Movies
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Michael Cimino
Director: Brian De Palma
Director: John Milius
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Alan Parker