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Oliver Stone
Stone at the 2010 Cannes film festival.
Born William Oliver Stone
September 15, 1946
New York City
Nationality American
Alma
mater
New York University
Occupation Film director , screenwriter, producer
Years
active
1971–present
Religion Buddhism
Spouse(s) Najwa Sarkis (1971–1977; divorced; 1
child)
Elizabeth Burkit Cox (1981–1993;
divorced; 2 children)
Sun-jung Jung (m. 1996; 1 child)
Awards Academy Awards
1978 Midnight Express
1986 Platoon
1989 Born on the Fourth of July
2004 Légion d'Honneur
San Sebastián International Film
Oliver StoneFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an
American film director, screenwriter, producer and veteran.
Stone came to public pr ominence between the mid-1980s and
the early 1990s for writing and directing a series of films about
the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an infantrysoldier. Many of Stone's films focus on contemporary and
controversial American political and cultural issues, such as
FK , Natural Born Killers, and Nixon.
Stone's films often combine different camera and film formats
within a single scene as evidenced in JFK , Natural Born
Killers, and Nixon.[1] British newspaper The Guardian has
described Stone as "one of the few committed men of the left
working in mainstream American cinema."[2] Stone has
received three Academy Awards for his work on the filmsidnight Express, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July.
He was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to
Filmmaking Award at the 2007 Austin Film Festival.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Directing career 3 Other work
4 Documentaries
5 The Untold History of the United States
6 The Full Story on Iran
7 Operation Emmanuel
8 Personal life
9 Filmography
9.1 As director
9.2 As actor
9.3 Screenwriter only9.4 Producer/executive producer only
10 Further reading
11 References
12 External links
Early life
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Festival
2012 Donostia Award
Stone was born in New York City, the son of Jacqueline (née
Goddet) and Louis Stone, a stockbroker.[3] He grew up in
Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. His father was a non-
practicing Jew, and his French-born mother was a non-
practicing Roman Catholic.[4] Stone was raised in the Episcopal Church,[5][6] and now practices Buddhism.[7] Ston
attended Trinity School in New York City before his parents sent him away to The Hill School, a college-preparator
school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. His parents were divorced abruptly while he was away at school (1962) and this
because he was an only child, marked him deeply. Stone's mother was often absent and his father made a big impac
on his life; father-son relationships were to feature heavily in Stone's films.[8] He often spent parts of his summer
vacations with his maternal grandparents in France, both in Paris and la Ferté-sous-Jouarre in eastern France. Stone
also worked at 17 in the Paris mercantile exchange in sugar and cocoa — a job that proved inspirational to Stone fo
his film Wall Street . He speaks French fluently. Stone graduated from The Hill School in 1964.
Stone was admitted into Yale University, but left after a year [9] to teach high school students at the Free Pacific
Institute in South Vietnam. Stone taught for six months, after which he worked as a wiper on a United States
Merchant Marine ship, traveling to Oregon. He returned to Yale, where he dropped out a second time (in part due t
working on an autobiographical novel A Child's Night Dream, published 1997 by St. Martin's
Press).[citation needed ] In April 1967, Stone enlisted in the United States Army, requesting combat duty in Vietnam.
He served from September 1967 through November 1968 with the 25th Infantry Division, then with the First Caval
Division, earning a Bronze Star with Combat V for heroism in ground combat; he was wounded twice and received
Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf Cluster. He also received the Air Medal for participating in more than 25 helicopter
combat assaults and the Army Commendation Medal.[citation needed ]
irecting career
Stone graduated from film school at New York University in 1971, where among his teachers was director Martin
Scorsese (the same year, he had a small acting role in comedy The Battle of Love's Return).[10] Stone made a sho
well received 12 minute film Last Year in Viet Nam. He worked as a taxi driver, film production assistant,messenger, and salesman before making his mark in film as a scriptwriter in the late 70s, in the period between his fir
two films as a director: horror films Seizure and The Hand . In 1979, Stone won his first Academy Award, after
adapting true-life jail tale Midnight Express into a hit film for British director Alan Parker (the two would later
collaborate on a 1996 movie of stage musical Evita).
Stone wrote further features before his directing career took off in 1986, including Al Pacino's drug lord tale Scarfa
and Year of the Dragon with Mickey Rourke. Stone has either written or co-written most of the films he has
directed. In 1986, Stone directed two films back to back: the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful
Salvador , shot largely in Mexico, and his long in development Vietnam project Platoon, shot in the Philippines.
Stone loosely based Scarface on his own addiction to cocaine, which he successfully kicked while writing the
screenplay.[11]
Platoon brought Stone's name to a much wider audience. It also finally kickstarted a busy directing career, which
saw him making nine films over the next decade. Alongside some negative reaction, Platoon won many rave review
(Roger Ebert later called it the ninth best film of the 1980s), large audiences, and Academy Awards for Best Picture
and Best Director. In 2007, a film industry vote ranked it at number 83 in an American Film Institute "AFI's 100
Years... 100 Movies" poll of the previous century's best American movies. British TV channel Channel 4 voted
Platoon as the sixth greatest war film ever made.[12]
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Oliver Stone with Rino Barillari in
"Piazza dé Ricci" exit of the restauran
"Pierluigi" in Rome - September 25,
2012
Platoon was the first of three films Stone has made about the Vietnam War: the others were Born on the Fourth of
uly and Heaven & Earth, each dealing with different aspects of the war. Platoon is a semi-autobiographical film
about Stone's experience in combat; Born on the Fourth of July is based on the autobiography of US marine turne
peace campaigner Ron Kovic; Heaven & Earth is based on the memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed
Places, in which Le Ly Hayslip, recalls her life as a Vietnamese village girl drastically affected by the war, who finds
another life in the USA.
During this same period, Stone directed one of his most ambitious, controversial and successful films to date, JFK ,
that depicts the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Stone also directed the acclaimed Wall Street , which won Michael Douglas an Academy Award for Best Actor as a ruthless Wall Street corporate raider;
Talk Radio, based on Eric Bogosian's Pulitzer-nominated play, and The Doors. The Doors, released in 1991,
received criticism from former Doors member Ray Manzarek (keyboardist–bass player) during a question and
answer session at Indiana University East (in Richmond, Indiana), in 1997. During the discussion, Manzarek stated
that he sat down with Stone about The Doors and Jim Morrison for over 12 hours. Patricia Kennealy Morrison - a
well known rock critic and author - was a consultant on the movie, in which she also has a cameo appearance, but
she writes in her memoir Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison (Dutton, 1992) that Stone
ignored everything she told him and proceeded with his own version of events. From the moment the movie was
released, she blasted it as untruthful and inaccurate.[13] The other surviving former members of the band, John
Densmore and Robby Krieger, also cooperated with the filming of Doors, but Krieger distanced himself from thework before the film's release. However, Densmore thought highly of the film, and in fact celebrated its DVD release
on a panel with Oliver Stone.
In 1991, Stone showed his film JFK to Congress on Capitol Hill, which helped lead to passage of the Assassination
Materials Disclosure Act[14] of 1992. The Assassination Records Review Board (created by Congress to end the
secrecy surrounding Kennedy's assassination) discussed the film, including Stone's observation at the end of the film,
about the dangers inherent in government secrecy.[15] Stone published an annotated version of the screenplay, in
which he cites references for his claims, shortly after the film's release.
–Oliver Stone[16]
1994 saw the release of Stone's satire of the modern media, Natural Born
Killers. Originally based on a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, critics
recognized its portrayal of violence and the intended satire on the media.
Before it was released, the MPAA gave the film a NC-17 rating; this
caused Stone to cut four minutes of film footage in order to obtain an R
rating (he eventually released the unrated version on VHS and DVD in2001).
Stone's screenplay Midnight Express was criticized for its fictitious
portrayal of Turkish people. The original author, Billy Hayes, around whom
the film is set, spoke out against the film, protesting that he had many
Turkish friends while in jail.[17] Stone later apologized for showing Turkey
in a negative light, while not repudiating the film's stark brutality. During a
question and answer session at the University of Texas at Austin, in 1994,
Stone explained that the film had primarily been a reactionary reflection based upon his own prison experience on
I make my f ilms like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get
popcorn.
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Stone with Hugo Chávez at the
Venice International Film Festival,
July 9, 2009 for the screening of
South of the Border
American soil. Though Stone had been imprisoned by the United States, he had not been in Turkish jail.
Stone went on to direct the Richard Nixon biopic Nixon, which was nominated for Oscars for script and Anthony
Hopkins' portrait of the title role. Stone followed Nixon the road movie/film noir, U Turn and Any Given Sunday,
film about power struggles within and without an American football team. Stone also directed the critically savaged
lexander . He later radically re-edited his biopic of Alexander the Great into a two-part, 3 hour 37 minute film
(almost an hour longer) Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut . After Alexander , Stone went on to direct World
Trade Center , based on the true story of two PAPD policemen who were trapped in the rubble and later survived
after the September 11 attacks.
In 2007, Stone was intended to direct his fourth Vietnam War film Pinkville, about a Pentagon investigation into the
My Lai Massacre of Vietnamese civilians. The film was to have been made for United Artists, [18] but the company
officially cancelled the production start due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Shortly after the
strike, Stone went on to write and direct the George W. Bush biopic W., that chronicles the controversial President'
childhood, relationship with his father, struggles with his alcoholism, rediscovery of his Christian faith, and continues
the rest of his life up until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In 2010, Stone returned to the theme of Wall Street for the
sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.[19] More recently, Stone directed Savages, based on a novel by Don
Winslow.
Other work
In 1993, Stone produced a miniseries for ABC Television called Wild Palms. In a cameo, Stone appears on a
television in the show discussing how the theories in his film JFK had been proven correct (the series took place in a
hypothetical future, 2007). That same year, he also spoofed himself in the comedy hit Dave, espousing a conspiracy
theory about the President's replacement by a near-identical double. In 1997, Stone published A Child's Night
Dream (St. Martin's Press), a semiautobiographical novel first written in 1966-1967.
In 2008, Stone was named the Artistic Director of New York University's
Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore.
ocumentaries
Stone made three documentaries on Fidel Castro: Comandante (2003),
Looking for Fidel , and Castro in Winter (2012). He made Persona Non
Grata, a documentary on Israeli-Palestinian relations, interviewing several
notable figures of Israel, including Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, and
Shimon Peres, as well as Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation
Organization. (See also Controversy, below.)
In 2009, Stone completed a feature length documentary, South of the
Border about the rise of progressive, leftist governments in Latin America,
featuring seven presidents: Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Ecuador’s Correa, Cuba’s Raúl
Castro, the Kirchners of Argentina, Brazil’s Lula da Silva, and Paraguay’s Lugo (all of whom hold negative views of
US manipulations in South America). Stone hoped the film would get the Western world to rethink socialist policies
South America, particularly as it was being applied by Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. Chávez joined Stone for the
premiere of the documentary at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2009.[20] Stone defended his
decision not to interview Chávez’s opponents, stating that oppositional statements and TV clips were scattered
through the documentary and that the documentary was an attempt to right a balance of heavily negative coverage. H
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praised Chávez as a leader of a movement for social transformation in Latin America (The Bolivarian Revolution),along with the six other Presidents in the film. The documentary was also released in several cities in the United State
and Europe in the summer of 2010.[21][22]
The Untold History of the United States
Main article: The Untold History of the United States
In 2009, it emerged that Stone was preparing a documentary miniseries for Showtime titled Oliver Stone's Secret
History of America. It would cover "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry
Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of
Communism."[23] In January 2010, it was revealed that he had been working on the project since 2008 with
American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, who co-wrote the script with Stone, along with British screenwriter
Matt Graham.[24] Stone is the director and narrator of all 10 episodes, which intend to provide an unconventional
account of some of the darkest parts of twentieth century history using little known documents and newly uncovered
archival material. Kuznick objected to the title "Secret History", claiming that "the truth is that many of our 'secrets'
have been hidden on the front page of the New York Times. If people think the secrets will be deep, dark
conspiracies, they'll be disappointed. We'll be drawing on the best recent scholarship".[25] It was subsequently retitleThe Untold History of the United States.[26]
The first three episodes of the series premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 6, 2012, which Indiewire
described as "extremely compelling" and "daring".[27] The series will also be personally presented by Stone at the
Subversive Film Festival on May 4, 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia, which next to film screenings also includes debates and
public lectures by prominent intellectuals such as Slavoj Zizek and Tariq Ali.[28]
The 10-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book of the same name, also written by Stone and
Kuznick, released on October 30, 2012 by Simon & Schuster.[29]
Stone described the project as "the most ambitious thing I've ever done. Certainly in documentary form, and perhap
in fiction, feature form."[30] Because of Stone's feature film commitments, production took four years to complete.
Stone confessed "It was supposed to take two years but it's way over schedule",[31] The premiere was finally set for
November 12, 2012.[32] Stone spent $1 million of his own money on the budget, which had inflated from $3 million
to $5 million.[33]
In 2012, The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald highly recommended the series and book,[34] describing it as
"riveting", "provocative" and "worthwhile".[35]
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wrote approvingly of the book:[36]
"Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick provide a critical overview of US foreign policy during the past
few decades. There is much here to reflect upon. Such a perspective is indispensable at a time
when decisions are being taken that will shape America's role in the global world of the twenty-
first century. At stake is whether the United States will choose to be the policeman of a "Pax
Americana", which is a recipe for disaster, or partner with other nations on the way to a safer,
more just and sustainable future."
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David Wiegand wrote for The San Francisco Chronicle: "The films are at their best when they provide a panorami
view of our history in the middle part of the 20th century. Ably abetted by the superb editing work by Alex
Marquez".[37] Verne Gay for Newsday similarly praised the craft: "By far the most interesting part of 'Untold' is the
visual presentation. Stone has cobbled together a mother lode of chestnuts, including grainy newsreel footage and
Soviet propaganda films. It's all weirdly engrossing" but found the content less than provocative: "You keep waiting
for a fresh insight, a new twist, a bizarre fact and after a while would even be profoundly grateful for some wacky
Stone revisionism. It never comes. What's 'untold' here?"[38]
Stone defended the program's accuracy to TV host Tavis Smiley[39]
This has been fact checked by corporate fact checkers, by our own fact checkers, and fact checkers
[hired] by Showtime. It's been thoroughly vetted...these are facts, our interpretation may be different
than orthodox, but it definitely holds up.
In November 2012, Hudson Institute adjunct fellow historian Ronald Radosh (who was averse to the project since i
announcement,[40] and encouraged a write-in campaign to cancel the series[41]) lambasted it as "mendacious" Cold
War revisionism and "mindless recycling of Stalin's propaganda," noting similarities to Communist author and NKVD
agent Carl Marzani's Soviet-published treatise We Can Be Friends.[42] Writes Radosh:
Over and over, Stone uses the same quotations, the same arrangements of material, and the same
arguments as Marzani. This is not to accuse Stone of plagiarism, only to point out that the case he now
offers as new was argued in exactly the same terms by an American Communist and Soviet agent in
1952.
Also in November, journalist Michael C. Moynihan criticized the book for "moral equivalence between the policies o
the psychotically brutal Soviet Union and the frequently flawed policy of the United States" and called the title
"misleading" in that nothing within the book was "untold" previously.[43]
In December 2012, the Real News Network began the beginning of a long multi-part interview about the series
where viewers can submit questions about the show which will be answered in future videos. Paul Jay, The Real
News's Senior Editor talked about how interesting it is that corporate-owned Showtime decided to put the series on
television.[44]
USA Today' s David Jackson, described the October 30, 2012 book with the headline: Oliver Stone rips Obama
then quoted: "The country Obama inherited was indeed in shambles, but Obama took a bad situation and, in
certain ways, made it worse," ..."Rather than repudiating the policies of Bush and his predecessors, Obama
has perpetuated them." [45]
Six days after the book's release, Stone said he had voted for Obama on November 5 in the 2012 U.S. presidential
election. Obama was cast against Mormon and Bain Capital founder Mitt Romney, who was ultimatelyunsuccessful.[46]
The Full Story on Iran
In an interview with The Times newspaper on July 25, 2010, Stone claimed that America does not know "the full
story" on Iran and complained about Jewish "domination" in parts of the US media and foreign policy. [47] When
Stone was asked why so much of an emphasis has been placed on the Holocaust, as opposed to the 40-plus million
casualties the Soviet Union, for example, suffered in World War II, he stated that in Washington American Israel
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Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was an overly powerful Jewish lobby within the US. The remarks were heavily
criticized by Jewish groups, including the Simon Wiesenthal Center, (where Yuri Eidelstein described his remarks as
what “could be a sequel to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,”)[47] and the American Jewish Committee,[48] as we
as from Israel's Diaspora Affairs and Public Diplomacy Minister.[47]
Stone a day later, stated: “In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans
committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret
Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid
and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to
the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.”[49]
Two days later, Stone issued a second apology to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which was accepted. "I
believe he now understands the issues and where he was wrong, and this puts an end to the matter," said ADL
National Director Abraham Foxman.[50]
Operation Emmanuel
Main article: Operation Emmanuel
Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's then president, proposed and set up Operation Emmanuel, third-party international
negotiations with Colombian revolutionary guerrilla group FARC involving the release of three hostages held for over
six years, another episode in the humanitarian exchange affair. Chávez's plan was supported by the governments of
Argentina, Brazil, France, Ecuador and Bolivia, as well as the Red Cross which also participated in the operation.
Stone was invited to film a documentary.
In the days before the 2007 New Year's Eve, the Venezuelan government had arranged for the release of high-profi
hostages held by FARC in the Colombian jungle. A high-level international team of observers was on hand, including
former President Néstor Kirchner of Argentina, Brazil's top presidential foreign policy advisor, and representatives
from France, Switzerland, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba, the Red Cross, and Oliver Stone.[51][52] The mission failed, and
Stone blamed the Colombian government and the United States for the fiasco.[53] President Uribe said FARC were
lying the whole time, and they never had any intention of releasing the hostages because they did not have one of the
three they had promised to deliver (a 3-year-old boy who was born in captivity). President Chávez angrily accused
Uribe of "dynamiting" the mission. He said FARC was in fact ready to release the two hostages they held, but had to
retreat from Colombian military operations. President Uribe maintained his military, under orders from him, had held
to a cease-fire in order to allow the release.[51][52]
In a January 2008 interview with The Observer , given shortly after these events, Stone expressed disgust for ongoin
U.S.-supported paramilitary violence in Colombia's "war on drugs." During The Observer interview, Stone said: "I d
think that by the standards of Western civilization they go too far; they kidnap innocent people. On the other hand,they're fighting a desperate battle against highly financed, American-supported forces who have been terrorizing the
countryside for years and kill most of the people. FARC is fighting back as best it can and grabbing hostages is the
fashion in which they can finance themselves and try to achieve their goals, which are difficult. They're a peasant army
I see them as a Zapata-like army. I think they are heroic to fight for what they believe in and die for it, as was Castro
in the hills of Cuba."[53]
Personal life
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Stone married three times, first to Najwa Sarkis on May 22, 1971. They divorced in 1977. He then married Elizabe
Burkit Cox, an assistant in film production, on June 7, 1981.[54][55] They had two sons, Sean Stone/Ali (b. 1984) an
Michael Jack (b. 1991). Sean appeared in some of his father's films while a child. Oliver and Elizabeth divorced in
1993. Stone is currently married to Sun-jung Jung, and the couple have a daughter, Tara (b. 1995).[56]
In 1997, Stone was one of 34 celebrities to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published
a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested against the treatment of
Scientologists in Germany and compared it to the Nazis' oppression of Jews in the 1930s.[57] Other signatories
included Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn.[57] In 2003, Stone was a signatory of the Humanist Manifesto.[58]
According to Newsmeat and Entertainment Weekly respectively, Stone voted for Barack Obama as U.S. preside
in both the 2008 and 2012 elections, instead of John McCain and Mitt Romney, the GOP candidates for the
presidency.[46] Stone was quoted as saying at the time: "I voted for Obama because...I think he's an intelligent
individual I think he responds to difficulties well...very bright guy...far better choice yes." [59] In 2012, Stone
endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination for President. He said that Paul is "the only one of anybody who's
saying anything intelligent about the future of the world."[60] then later: "I supported Ron Paul in the Republican
rimary ... but his domestic policy...made no SENSE" [59] He ultimately voted for Barack Obama in the general
election.
[61]
In 1999, Stone was arrested and pleaded guilty to alcohol and drug charges. He was ordered into a rehabilitation
program. He was arrested again on the night of May 27, 2005 in Los Angeles for possession of an undisclosed illeg
drug.[62][63] On May 27, 2005, Stone was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of drugs. He was
released the next day on a $15,000 bond.[63] In August 2005, Stone pled no contest and was fined $100.[64]
Oliver Stone is a vocal supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Stone signed a petition in support of
Assange's bid for political asylum in June 2012.[65] In August 2012, he penned a New York Times op-ed with
filmmaker Michael Moore on the importance of WikiLeaks and free speech.[66] Stone visited Assange in the
Ecuadorian Embassy in April 2013 and commented, "I don't think most people in the US realize how important
WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support." He also criticized two upcoming WikiLeaks films from Alex
Gibney and Bill Condon.[67]
In June 2013, Stone and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for Bradley
Manning.[68][69]
Filmography
As director
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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 &
Earth1 1
1994 Natural Born
Killers1
1995 Nixon 4 1 1
1997 U Turn
1999 Any Given
Sunday
2003 Comandante
2004 Alexander
2004 Looking for
Fidel
2006World Trade
Center
2008 W.
2009 South of the Border
2010
Wall Street:
Money
Never Sleeps
1
2012 Savages
As actor
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The 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)Greystone Park (actor) (2011)
End the War on Animals (narrator, PETA video) (2012)
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)
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)
Further reading
Hamburg, Eric. Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film. Hyperion Books. ISBN 0-7868-8157-7
Riordan, James. Stone: The Biography. (1996)
Stone, Oliver. JFK: The Book of the Film. Applause Books. ISBN 1-55783-127-0
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Salewicz, Chris. Oliver Stone: the making of his movies. Orion. ISBN 0-7528-1820-1
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External links
A biography of Oliver Stone (http://www.filmmakers.com/artists/oliverstone/biography/)
Oliver Stone Bibliography (via UC Berkeley) (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/stone.html)
Oliver Stone (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm231/) at the Internet Movie Database
Oliver Stone's service with Company E, 52nd Infantry (LRP), 1st Air Cavalry Division, in Vietnam and his
movie Platoon
The Oliver Stone Experience (official Oliver Stone website) (http://www.oliverstone.com)
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