Platoon would go on to be nominated for eight Academy Awards and won four including Best Picture, Best Director for Stone, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing. It was critically acclaimed but commercially didn’t hit the mark.Īfter Salvador, he jumped right into directing Platton, the film that would catapult Stone into the stratosphere.
This is one of Stone’s most underrated works. Stone finally broke through as a director with his film Salvador, a violent look at the chaos of war as seen through the lens of an amoral photojournalist during the Salvadoran Civil War. His first outing as a director was Seizure, an exploitation horror film he directed right out of film school, and the thriller The Hand, starring Michael Caine. Stone further wrote Brian De Palma’sdrug lord epic Scarface, Year of the Dragon featuring Mickey Rourke, and John Milius’s Conan the Barbarian. He struggled years before being hired to write the true-life prison story Midnight Express, for which he won his first Oscar®. Stone began his career as a screenwriter, though always had his eye on being a writer/director.
His films have been nominated for forty-two Oscars® and have won twelve. Throughout his legendary career, Stone has served as writer, director, and producer on a variety of films, documentaries, and television movies. Today on the show I bring you one of the most influential and iconic writers/ directors in the history of cinema, three-time Oscar® winner Oliver Stone.
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