Oliver Stone

About Oliver Stone

Director who won Academy Awards for Best Director for his films on Vietnam, Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July. He also directed the political films JFK and Nixon, as well as the 1987 drama Wall Street and the 1994 crime picture Natural Born Killers.

William Oliver Stone is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Stone won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay as a screenwriter for Midnight Express and wrote a gangster screenplay remake of Scarface. Stone is best known as the writer and director of the war film Platoon, which won the Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture. Platoon is the first in a Vietnam War-based trilogy in which Stone plays an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born 4/7 - the film where Stone won his second Academy Award for Best Director - and Heaven & Earth. Other Stone works include the Salvador movie, based on the Salvadoran civil war; the Wall Street financial movie and its sequel, Money Never Sleeps; Biographical film by Jim Morrison The Doors; the black satirical comedy detective Natural Born Killers; a trilogy based on US presidents: JFK, Nixon, and W.; and Snowden.

Born	William Oliver Stone, September 15, 1946, New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University, New York University (BFA)
Years active	1971–present
Known for	Seizure, The Hand, Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Talk Radio, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, JFK, Heaven & Earth
Children	3, including Sean Stone
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, film producer, author

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Trivia

His film JFK led to Congress passing the Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992, which ended the secrecy surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Oliver Stone before fame

He worked in the French Financial Exchange as a teenager. From June 1965 until June 1968, he served in Vietnam.

Achievement of Oliver Stone

His film JFK led to Congress passing the Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992, which ended the secrecy surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$70 Million

Oliver Stone family life

On May 22, 1971, he married Najwa Sarkis. He married Elizabeth Stone a decade later. In 1996, he married Sun-jung Jung for the third time. Sean and Michael are his sons, while Tara is his daughter.

Associations of Oliver Stone

In 1991, he directed The Doors, a biopic about the famous rock and roll band in which Val Kilmer played Jim Morrison, the band's lead singer.

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