Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone (English: William Oliver Stone, September 15, 1946 -) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer, as well as an actor. Coming from a French-American family. Stone won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Midnight Express" (1978). He also wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed gangster film Scarface (1983). As a director, Stone gained prominence with the war film March 1986 (1986), which he directed and wrote, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director and the film was also awarded the Best Picture Award. "Advancing the Khmer" is the first of a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War. Stone served as an infantryman in the Vietnam War, so he focused on using violence to reflect on society in his films. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July (1989), for which Stone won his second Academy Award for Best Director, and Sky and Earth (1993). Stone's other notable works include the film "El Salvador" (1986) based on the El Salvadoran civil war, the financial film "Wall Street" (1987) and its 2010 sequel "Wall Street", Jim Morrison He also produced the documentary film "The End of the World" (1991), and a trilogy of films based on U.S. presidents - "The Assassination" (1991), "Nixon" (1995) and "Not Simple" (2008). His most recent films are Snowden (2016) and the documentary Ukraine on Fire (2016). Many of Stone's films focused on controversial American political issues of the late 20th century and were considered controversial at the time of their release. They often combined different cameras and film formats in a single scene, as in "Killings," "Natural Born Killers" and "Nixon."