William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. '"[168] In response to Stone's comment about his intention to place Hitler "in context", Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said it "is like placing cancer in context, instead of recognizing cancer for what it really is - a horrible disease. I've heard horror stories on everyone in the business, so I'm not going to comment on gossip. $50.28M, R Saudi Arabia has influence through money… Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers have much more influence on American elections… And the prime minister of Israel comes to our country and addresses Congress to criticize the president's policy in Iran at the time—that's pretty outrageous. Stars: For the former one, he earned an Academy award for best screenwriter. It is also obvious from watching it that Oliver Stone wants the viewer to question the official "lone-nut" explanation of the JFK Assassination. History : Oliver Stone's Showtime Series", "Oliver Stone defends Vladimir Putin against Megyn Kelly", "Oliver Stone's Four-Hour Interview With Vladimir Putin to Premiere on Showtime", "Oliver Stone defended Vladimir Putin to Stephen Colbert. 1984) and Michael Jack (b. | [136] Oliver and Elizabeth divorced in 1993. With Skylan Brooks, Seth Cassell, Pete Gardner, Natalie Turpin. Although it was not as successful as his last three films, Stone did not slow down at all. 385,420 [116] Hudson Institute adjunct fellow historian Ronald Radosh accused the series of historical revisionism,[117] while journalist Michael C. Moynihan accused the book of "moral equivalence" and said nothing within the book was "untold" previously. 99,116 Colbert Report. "[104], In 2010, it was reported that Stone expressed interest in making a film adaptation of the musical Memphis and wanted Justin Timberlake to star in it.[105]. [176], Two days later, Stone issued a second apology to the ADL, which was accepted. So it was with Alexander the Great, and so it is with Oliver Stone's "Alexander." [40][41][42][43] Daniel Voll was credited with creating the series. [123] At the end of 2014 according to a Facebook post Stone said he had been in Moscow to interview (former Ukrainian president) Viktor Yanukovych, for a "new English language documentary produced by Ukrainians". Oliver Stone Director: Oliver Stone used one or two unreliable witnesses, and he dramatised episodes which probably did not happen. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new … | "[111] The project received positive reviews from former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev,[112] The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald,[113] and reviewers from IndieWire,[114] San Francisco Chronicle,[115] and Newsday. Synchronisation [89][90][91] Xzibit was also to have appeared in the film. James Woods, | Raul Castro, Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone was born in New York City on September 15, 1946. $34.30M, Not Rated In 1986, 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. Woody Harrelson, Angelina Jolie, Votes: He said: "On the contrary, Obama has doubled down on the (George W.) Bush administration policies," and "has created...the most massive global security surveillance state that's ever been seen, way beyond East Germany's Stasi". Juliette Lewis, Stars: Oliver Stone To Tell WHITE LIES With Benicio Del Toro . Oliver Stone 124,790 Stone's mother was often absent and his father made a big impact on his life; father-son relationships were to feature heavily in Stone's films perhaps because of this.[18]. [161] He said that Paul is "the only one of anybody who's saying anything intelligent about the future of the world. It aims to represent a different view on Hugo Chavez’s regime while also exposing the false narrative given by the American media. | Copy link. By Jacob Knight Aug. 13, … Colin Farrell, It's okay to wreck the Middle East. He directed Tom Cruise into an Oscar-nominated role in Born on the Fourth of July (1989). | Gross: | [92][93][94] However, on November that same year, the project was postponed by its distributor, United Artists, in the wake of the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. But what many don’t know is that Oliver Stone made a Vietnam film before he ever put pen to paper on Platoon. Sean appeared in some of his father's films while a child. | Stars: Al Pacino, In 2007, a film industry vote ranked it at number 83 in an American Film Institute "AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies" poll of the previous century's best American movies. | Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. 84,761 143,780 112,900 Haing S. Ngor, Oliver Stone gewann 1979 die Auszeichnung der Writers Guild of America, Giorgio Moroder 1978 den Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award und Brad Davis 1979 den Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award. Oliver Stone | Votes: 385,215 | Gross: $138.53M. In 2009, Stone completed a feature-length documentary, South of the Border about the rise of leftist governments in Latin America, featuring seven presidents: Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Cuba's Raúl Castro, the Kirchners of Argentina, Brazil's Lula da Silva, and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, all of whom are critical of US foreign policy in South America. Im Jahr 1993 erhielt der Film den Spezialpreis der Political Film Society. | [22] He returned to Yale, where he dropped out a second time (in part due to working on an autobiographical novel A Child's Night Dream, published 1997 by St. Martin's Press).[23]. Oliver Stone 140 min Snowden is a 2016 biographical thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald. Stone followed Nixon with the 1997 road movie/film noir, U Turn, and 1999's Any Given Sunday, a film about power struggles within and without an American football team. "[145], The allegation Stevens made surfaced after Stone announced he would no longer direct The Weinstein Company's television series Guantanamo following the revelation of the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations. Patricia Kennealy-Morrison—a rock critic and author—was a consultant on the movie, in which she makes a cameo appearance, but she writes in her memoir Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison (Dutton, 1992) that Stone ignored everything she told him and proceeded with his own version of events. | Leonardo Corbucci 145 min During that period he was a rival. Oliver Stone Stars: He said: "The influence on the election from the Russians to me is absurd to the naked eye. A chronicle of the life and Presidency of George W. Bush. Here is an ambitious and sincere film that fails to find a focus for its elusive subject. Documentary, A man living in the USA is nauseated by the media power and Consumerism, decides to go to Cuba with the intention of meeting Fidel Castro. Crime, Thriller. Tap to unmute. He worked as a taxi driver, film production assistant, messenger, and salesman before making his mark in film as a screenwriter in the late 1970s, in the period between his first two films as a director: horror films Seizure and The Hand. The movie talked about the return of an embittered, crippled Vietnam soldier from the war. Oliver Stone’s Controversial Film. 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