Title: Platoon (film)
Content: the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1987; it also won Best Director for Oliver Stone, as well as Best Sound and Best Film Editing. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed "Platoon" at #83 in their "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies" poll. In 1967, U.S. Army volunteer Chris Taylor arrives in South Vietnam and is assigned to an infantry platoon of the 25th Infantry Division near the Cambodian border. The platoon is officially led by the young and inexperienced Lieutenant Wolfe, but in reality the soldiers defer to two of his older and more experienced subordinates: the hardened and

Title: 59th Academy Awards
Content: time, having previously been a co-host of the 48th ceremony held in 1976. Meanwhile, this was Chase and Hogan's first Oscars hosting stint. Eight days earlier, in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 22, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Catherine Hicks. "Platoon" won four awards including Best Picture. Other winners included "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "A Room with a View" with three awards, "Aliens" with two awards, and "", "The Assault", "Children of a Lesser God", "The Color of Money", "Down and Out in America", "The Fly",

Title: Arnold Kopelson
Content: films throughout the world and also to finance motion picture production. The Kopelsons produced films together. Kopelson produced 29 motion pictures. He was honored with an Academy Award for Best Picture, a Golden Globe Award, and an Independent Spirit Award, all for his production of "Platoon". He received a Best Picture Academy Award nomination for his production of "The Fugitive". Kopelson's films have been collectively responsible for 17 Academy Award nominations and over $3 billion in worldwide receipts. Kopelson was named Producer of the Year by The National Association of Theatre Owners, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement in Filmmaking

Title: When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Content: Award for Best Picture and "Born on the Fourth of July". Stone won the Academy Award for Directing for both films. Both films were told from the perspective of Americans. "Platoon" was based on Oliver Stone's own experience in Vietnam and "Born on the Fourth of July" was based on the experiences of veteran Ron Kovic. After "Platoon", Hayslip would stand outside movie theaters in San Diego, where she lived at the time, and hand out fliers. "I am not against the movie," Hayslip said, "But I want them to know that 3 million of my people died in that

Title: California State University, Long Beach
Content: and VR Troopers Power Rangers. Former students have won at least five Academy Awards. Steven Spielberg (Class of 1969, BA 2002) won two Oscars for Best Directing for "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" and has directed a number of other successful movies such as "Jaws", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", and "Jurassic Park". Former industrial design major John Dykstra, who has been nominated five times for Academy Awards, won two Oscars for his special effects work on the George Lucas film "Star Wars" and the Sam Raimi film "Spider-Man 2". Deborah L. Scott (BA) won an Oscar for costume design for

Question: Who won the Best Director Oscar for Platoon?
Answer: Oliver Stone