Oliver Stone

**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.

### As director

|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_|align=center|2|||||||||||
|1986|_Platoon_|align=center|8|align=center|4|align=center|4|align=center|3|align=center|3|align=center|2|
|1987|_Wall Street_|align=center|1|align=center|1|align=center|1|align=center|1|||||
|1988|_Talk Radio_|||||||||||||
|1989|_Born on the Fourth of July_|align=center|8|align=center|2|align=center|5|align=center|4|align=center|2|||
|1991|_The Doors_|||||||||||||
|1991|_JFK_|align=center|8|align=center|2|align=center|4|align=center|1|align=center|2|align=center|2|
|1993|_Heaven & Earth_|||align=center|1|align=center|1|||||||
|1994|_Natural Born Killers_|||align=center|1|||||||||
|1995|_Nixon_|align=center|4||align=center|1||align=center|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_|||align=center|1|||||||||
|2012|_Savages_|||||||||||||

### As actor

- _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

- _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

- _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)

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Oliver Stone
- **image**: Oliver Stone Cannes 2010.jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **caption**: Stone at the Cannes Film Festival, 2010
- **birth place**: New York City, U.S.
- **birthname**: William Oliver Stone
- **yearsactive**: 1971–present
- **occupation**: Movie director, producer, screenwriter
- **spouse**: Najwa Sarkis (m. 1971–1977, divorced)
Elizabeth Burkit Cox (m. 1981–1993, divorced)
Sun-jung Jung (m. 1996–present)
- **children**: Sean Stone, Sean, Michael, Tara