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Oliver Stone in Vietnam.

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William Oliver Stone is a film director, producer, and screenwriter. He won an Academy Award for Best
Adapted Screenplay
as writer of Midnight Express
(1978), and wrote the gangster film
remake Scarface
(1983). Stone achieved prominence as writer and          
director  of the war drama Platoon (1986), which
won
Academy Awards for Best Director and Best
Picture
. Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films  
based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served
as an
infantry soldier. He continued the series with
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)—for which Stone
won his second Best Director
Oscar. Stone is 76
years old today.
 



 

  Midnight Express (Blu-ray)    

JFK [DVD] [1997]

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