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Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone is an American filmmaker. An acclaimed director who tackled subjects ranging from the Vietnam War and American politics to musical biopics and crime dramas, Stone has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, one Primetime Emmy, three Independent Spirit Awards and six Golden Globes.
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entertainment · American filmmaker (born 1946) · film director · screenwriter · actor · film producer · documentarian · director · also Oliver Stone, William Oliver Stone, Stone
Born 15 September 1946 · Q179497
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Anything he could do to be at the edge, and to experience more than other people had experienced, and to shock, he was likely to do. It was consistent for him to want to experience the most intense thing that was going on then in the world.
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2026· 4 entries
“Anything he could do to be at the edge, and to experience more than other people had experienced, and to shock, he was likely to do. It was consistent for him to want to experience the most intense thing that was going on then in the world.”
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“s television series Guantanamo following the revelation of the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations. Stone also drew criticism for his comments on Weinstein himself, saying: I”
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Stone completed production on White Lies, which he has described as his final narrative feature as writer‑director
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Oliver Stone to testify at John F Kennedy assassination hearing
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: Natural Born Killers at 30: Oliver Stone’s brash button-pusher remains tiresome
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The Guardian: ‘I apologise for speaking ignorantly’: Oliver Stone backtracks over Barbie comments
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“People worry about nuclear waste and meanwhile the whole world is choking on fossil fuel waste. That’s silly. Trillions of dollars have been invested in solar and wind and hydropower. Everything possible is being discussed, except for nuclear... It has to be on the agenda.”
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Stone directed Lula, a documentary film about the life of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist president of Brazil, which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
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Stone donated his archives to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Oliver Stone: ‘Putin is a great leader for his country’
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2022· 4 entries
Claimed: ““I wonder if the U.S. is setting a stage of a low-yield nuclear explosion … killing thousands of Ukrainians. … [T]o blame Russia… regardless who launched the device.”” — rated Misleading by VOA.
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Stone directed and co-wrote Nuclear Now, a climate change documentary based on the book A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow written by the US scientists Joshua S
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Appeared in the documentary Theaters of War, discussing the role of the military in Hollywood
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“Although the United States has many wars of aggression on its conscience, it doesn”
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2021· 3 entries
The Guardian: JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass review – Oliver Stone returns to the grassy knoll
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The Guardian: Oliver Stone derided for film about ‘modest’ former Kazakh president
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Stone produced and featured in Qazaq: History of the Golden Man, directed by Lopatonok, a miniseries about Kazakh politician and former leader Nursultan Nazarbayev
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2020· 2 entries
Stone announced his semi-retirement from film-making, though he still occasionally makes documentaries
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Criticized what he perceived to be the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party
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2019· 3 entries
The Guardian: Natural Born Killers at 25: the problem with Oliver Stone's hit film
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Released Revealing Ukraine, another film produced by Stone, directed by Lopatonok and featuring Stone interviewing Putin
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Platoon was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant
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2017· 3 entries
VOA rated the claim ““Those are [IS] militants” [Vladimir Putin] “You wouldn’t want to join [IS] if you saw that” [Oliver Stone].” Likely False.
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Various industry papers announced that Stone was going to direct his first scripted television series about the Guantanamo detention camp for Weinstein Television
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Former Playboy model Carrie Stevens alleged that in 1991, Stone had "walked past me and grabbed my boob as he waltzed out the front door of a party
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2016· 3 entries
When Trump won and also feared that neoconservatives would ultimately control Biden
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Stone was executive producer and interviewer for Ukrainian-born director Igor Lopatonok's film Ukraine on Fire
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Stone directed Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as whistleblower Edward Snowden
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2015).
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2014· 2 entries
Stone and teleSUR premiered the documentary film Mi amigo Hugo (My Friend Hugo), a documentary about Venezuela's late president, Hugo Chávez, one year after his death
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Released the two-part, 3-hour 26-minute Alexander: The Ultimate Cut
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Donostia Award (2012).
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The documentary miniseries Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States premiered on Showtime, Stone co-wrote, directed, produced, and narrated the series, having worked on it since 2008 with co-writers American Un
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Stone endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination for president, citing his support for a non-interventionist foreign policy
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2010· 1 entry
Stone directed his only sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
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2009· 1 entry
Stone completed a feature-length documentary, South of the Border, about the rise of left-wing governments in Latin America, featuring seven presidents: Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Ecuador's Rafael C
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2008· 1 entry
Stone was named the artistic director of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore
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2007· 1 entry
A film industry vote ranked it at number 83 in an American Film Institute "AFI's 100 Years
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2003· 3 entries
Stone was a signatory of the third Humanist Manifesto
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“s life up until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. 2010–present: Recent work In 2010, Stone directed his only sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Two years later, he directed the crime thriller Savages, based on the novel by Don Winslow. In 2016, Stone directed Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as whistleblower Edward Snowden. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was not a commercial success. As of 2025, it remains Stone”
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Stone made Persona Non Grata, an HBO documentary on Israeli-Palestinian relations, in which he interviewed several notable Israeli leaders, including Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres, as well as Yasser Ara
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1999· 1 entry
Stone was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of drugs, specifically fenfluramine/phentermine, meprobamate and a small amount of hashish
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1998· 1 entry
Wrote an article about conspiracies for John F
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1997· 1 entry
Stone was one of 34 celebrities to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested against the treatment of Scientolo
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1996· 1 entry
Stone produced the films Freeway and The People vs
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1995· 1 entry
But that Clinton kept the visit off the official agenda due to Stone's controversial reputation
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival (1994).
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Stone co-wrote and directed Natural Born Killers, a violent crime film intended to satirize the modern media
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1992· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards (1992).
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Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (1992).
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Stone testified before the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Legislation and National Affairs in support of the act's passage
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Served as a delegate for Jerry Brown's campaign in the Democratic Party presidential primaries and spoke at that year's Democratic National Convention
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director for JFK (1991).
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1990· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards (1990).
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Won Golden Bear (1990).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Born on the Fourth of July (1990).
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Stone produced the Oscar-winning movie Reversal of Fortune
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1989· 1 entry
Co-wrote and directed Born on the Fourth of July, based on the autobiography of Ron Kovic, a Marine who became an anti-war activist after being paralyzed in combat
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Platoon (1988).
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1987· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards (1987).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Platoon (1987).
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Earned Silver Bear (1987).
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1986· 3 entries
“Putin is a great leader for his country and the people love him.”
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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
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“Since that day, the media has chanted the mantra that Oswald did it alone. But the American public... has never accepted it. They smell a rat.”
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1979· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards (1979).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express (1979).
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Stone was awarded his first Oscar, after adapting true-life prison story Midnight Express into the successful film of the same name for British director Alan Parker (the two men would later collaborate on the 1996 movie
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1976· 1 entry
Deeply affected him: "She loved me, and she’d always loved me and believed in me
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1972· 1 entry
With a freelance review of Jean Luc-Godard's Breathless for The Village Voice
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1971· 1 entry
Where his teachers included director and fellow NYU alumnus Martin Scorsese and where he had a small acting role in the comedy The Battle of Love's Return
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1969· 1 entry
The French news program Voila interviewed a then-unknown Stone while filming "on the street" interviews about the war in Central Park
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1968· 3 entries
And (after five years of Individual Ready Reserve status) officially discharged from the Army on April 1, 1973, at the rank of Specialist 4
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Stone charged and killed a North Vietnamese sniper who had several squads pinned down during a crossfire firefight near My Khe beach (nicknamed "China Beach" by the U
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Stone was wounded and evacuated from the 25th Infantry Division for the final time when, while attempting to aid other injured personnel, a satchel charge implanted in a tree detonated, causing a blast concussion and shr
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1967· 1 entry
Stone enlisted in the United States Army during the Vietnam War
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1966· 1 entry
Traveling from Asia to the US across the rough Pacific Ocean in January
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1964· 1 entry
Stone was admitted to Yale University, but left in June 1965 at age 18 to teach high school students English for six months at the Free Pacific Institute in Saigon, South Vietnam
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1963· 1 entry
And the investigation by Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Costner), who believed that the assassination was part of a CIA conspiracy
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1962· 1 entry
While Stone was attending The Hill, his parents abruptly divorced, which shocked him
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1946· 2 entries
Born 1946-09-15.
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At Doctors Hospital in New York City, the only child of Jacqueline (née Goddet) and Louis Stone (born Abraham Louis Silverstein)
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