William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) 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). The British newspaper The Guardian described him as "one of the few committed men of the left working in mainstream American cinema."
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).
Academy Awards
Best Director
Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Known For
U Turn
(1997)
Director
Platoon
(1986)
Director
Nixon
(1995)
Director
Alexander
(2004)
Director
Any Given Sunday
(1999)
Director
Snowden
(2016)
Director
JFK
(1991)
Director
The Doors
(1991)
Director
Wall Street
(1987)
Director
Savages
(2012)
Director
World Trade Center
(2006)
Director
Natural Born Killers
(1994)
Director
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
(2010)
Director
Born on the Fourth of July
(1989)
Director
W.
(2008)
Director
The Hand
(1981)
Director
Full Filmography
Directing
Last Year in Viet Nam
(1971)
Director
Seizure
(1974)
Director
The Hand
(1981)
Director
Platoon
(1986)
Director
Salvador
(1986)
Director
Wall Street
(1987)
Director
Talk Radio
(1988)
Director
Born on the Fourth of July
(1989)
Director
The Doors
(1991)
Director
JFK
(1991)
Director
Heaven & Earth
(1993)
Director
Natural Born Killers
(1994)
Director
Nixon
(1995)
Director
U Turn
(1997)
Director
Any Given Sunday
(1999)
Director
Comandante
(2003)
Director
Persona Non Grata
(2003)
Director
Alexander
(2004)
Director
Looking For Fidel
(2004)
Director
World Trade Center
(2006)
Director
W.
(2008)
Director
South of the Border
(2009)
Director
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
(2010)
Director
Savages
(2012)
Director
Castro in Winter
(2012)
Director
The Untold History Of The United States
(2012)
Director
My Friend Hugo
(2014)
Director
Snowden
(2016)
Director
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
(2021)
Director
Nuclear Now
(2023)
Director
Lula
(2024)
Director
Acting
The Battle of Love's Return
(1971)
Cliff
Last Year in Viet Nam
(1971)
War Veteran
Seizure
(1974)
Anchor (voice) (uncredited)
The Hand
(1981)
Bum
Platoon
(1986)
Alpha Company Major in Bunker (uncredited)
Wall Street
(1987)
Trader - Office
Born on the Fourth of July
(1989)
News Reporter
First Works
(1989)
Self
The Doors
(1991)
UCLA Film Professor
Our Hollywood Education
(1992)
Self
Dave
(1993)
Oliver Stone
The Last Party
(1993)
Self
From Hollywood to Hanoi
(1993)
Self
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
(1993)
Self
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
(1995)
Self
Empire of the Censors
(1995)
Self
Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
(1995)
Self
Love in Hollywood
(1996)
Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
(1997)
Self
Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner
(1997)
Self
The Road of Excess
(1997)
Self
Monk Dawson
(1998)
Young Winterman
The Making of 'Scarface'
(1998)
Self
Any Given Sunday
(1999)
Tug Kowalski - TV Announcer #1
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
(2000)
Self
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
(2001)
Self
Into the Valley of Death
(2001)
Self
Jim Brown: All-American
(2002)
Self
John Ford Goes to War
(2002)
Self - Interviewee
Comandante
(2003)
Self
Persona Non Grata
(2003)
Self
Looking For Fidel
(2004)
Self
Oliver Stone's America : a dialogue with Oliver Stone
(2004)
Self
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
(2004)
Self
Alexander
(2004)
Macedonian Soldier at Zeus Statue (uncredited)
Torrente 3: The Protector
(2005)
Inglés borracho
Becoming Alexander
(2005)
Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
(2005)
Self
Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
(2006)
Self
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
(2006)
Self
Cannes: All Access
(2007)
Self
They Live by Night: The Twisted Road
(2007)
Self
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
(2007)
Self
Side Street: Where Temptation Lurks
(2007)
Self
Crime Wave: The City Is Dark
(2007)
Self
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
(2007)
Self
South of the Border
(2009)
Self
The Invocation
(2010)
Self
Rock Poet: Jim Morrison
(2010)
Self
The Undefeated
(2011)
Self (archive footage)
Turning Like Clockwork
(2011)
Self
Greystone Park
(2012)
Oliver
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
(2012)
Self
Castro in Winter
(2012)
Self
The Untold History Of The United States
(2012)
Narrator
A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington
(2012)
Self - Interviewee
Casting By
(2012)
Self
Project Censored the Movie
(2013)
Self
Milius
(2013)
Self
LT: The Life & Times
(2013)
Self
The Ghosts of Jeju
(2013)
Self
Hollywood Banker
(2014)
Self
My Friend Hugo
(2014)
Self
The Weight of Chains 2
(2014)
Self
Brand: A Second Coming
(2015)
Self
French Cinema Mon Amour
(2015)
Self
Mindfulness: Be Happy Now
(2015)
Self
Ukraine on Fire
(2016)
Self
Once upon a time on Wall Street
(2017)
Self
Mooch
(2018)
Self
Sword-and-Sandal
(2019)
Self - Director
Revealing Ukraine
(2019)
Self
Le cinéma américain du sulfureux Oliver Stone
(2019)
Self
Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood
(2020)
Self
Val
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
(2021)
Self
Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony
(2021)
Self (archive footage)
Oliver Stone : comment filmer la violence
(2021)
Self
Michael Cimino, God Bless America
(2022)
Self
Icahn: The Restless Billionaire
(2022)
Self
Ennio
(2022)
Self
Theaters of War
(2022)
Self
Cannes Uncut
(2023)
Self
Nuclear Now
(2023)
Self
Qazaq
(2024)
Self
Writing
Last Year in Viet Nam
(1971)
Writer
Seizure
(1974)
Screenplay
Midnight Express
(1978)
Screenplay
The Hand
(1981)
Screenplay
Conan the Barbarian
(1982)
Screenplay
Scarface
(1983)
Screenplay
Year of the Dragon
(1985)
Screenplay
Platoon
(1986)
Screenplay
8 Million Ways to Die
(1986)
Screenplay
Salvador
(1986)
Writer and Scenario Writer
Wall Street
(1987)
Writer
Talk Radio
(1988)
Screenplay
Born on the Fourth of July
(1989)
Screenplay
JFK
(1991)
Screenplay
The Doors
(1991)
Writer
Heaven & Earth
(1993)
Screenplay
Natural Born Killers
(1994)
Screenplay
Nixon
(1995)
Screenplay
Evita
(1996)
Screenplay
Any Given Sunday
(1999)
Screenplay
Alexander
(2004)
Screenplay
Looking For Fidel
(2004)
Writer
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
(2010)
Writer
Savages
(2012)
Screenplay
The Untold History Of The United States
(2012)
Writer
Snowden
(2016)
Screenplay
Nuclear Now
(2023)
Writer
Editing
Camera
Production
Sugar Cookies
(1973)
Producer
Salvador
(1986)
Producer
Born on the Fourth of July
(1989)
Producer
Blue Steel
(1990)
Producer
Reversal of Fortune
(1990)
Producer
JFK
(1991)
Producer
Iron Maze
(1991)
Executive Producer
Zebrahead
(1992)
Executive Producer
South Central
(1992)
Executive Producer
The Joy Luck Club
(1993)
Executive Producer
Heaven & Earth
(1993)
Producer
From Hollywood to Hanoi
(1993)
Executive Producer
The New Age
(1994)
Executive Producer
Nixon
(1995)
Producer
Freeway
(1996)
Executive Producer
The People vs. Larry Flynt
(1996)
Producer
Cold Around the Heart
(1997)
Executive Producer
Gravesend
(1997)
Executive Producer
Savior
(1998)
Producer
Any Given Sunday
(1999)
Executive Producer
The Corruptor
(1999)
Executive Producer
The Day Reagan Was Shot
(2001)
Executive Producer
Comandante
(2003)
Producer
Alexander
(2004)
Producer
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
(2010)
Producer
Ukraine on Fire
(2016)
Executive Producer
Revealing Ukraine
(2019)
Executive Producer
Qazaq
(2024)
Producer
Crew