---
name: "Oliver Stone"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/oliver-stone"
fi1m_id: "oliver-stone"
imdb_id: "nm0000231"
tmdb_id: 1152
wikidata_id: "Q179497"
roles: ["Writer","Director","Producer"]
born: "15 September 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 10
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T17:45:22.712510+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Oliver Stone

## Identity

Oliver Stone

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/oliver-stone
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** oliver-stone
- **IMDb ID:** nm0000231
- **TMDB ID:** 1152
- **Wikidata ID:** Q179497
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179497, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000231/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1152

Writer and director. Born 15 September 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director, Producer
- **Born:** 15 September 1946, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1978–2006
- **Also known as:** Oliver W. Stone, 奧利華·史東, Оливер Стоун, โอลิเวอร์ สโตน, أوليفر ستون, オリバー・ストーン, 올리버 스톤, William Oliver Stone, Όλιβερ Στόουν, الیور استون
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 10: 6 directing, 3 writing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [A. Kitman Ho](https://film.one/person/a-kitman-ho.md), [Charlie Sheen](https://film.one/person/charlie-sheen.md), [Clayton Townsend](https://film.one/person/clayton-townsend.md), [Edward R. Pressman](https://film.one/person/edward-r-pressman.md), [Tommy Lee Jones](https://film.one/person/tommy-lee-jones.md), [Willem Dafoe](https://film.one/person/willem-dafoe.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 3 Oscars (3 won · 7 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 61 (1), 1980s 76 (6), 1990s 73 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 60 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Crime 2, Drama 2, Adventure 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $170m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179497, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000231/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1152

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Scarface*](https://film.one/film/scarface.md) (79), [*Born on the Fourth of July*](https://film.one/film/born-on-the-fourth-of-july.md) (74), [*Conan the Barbarian*](https://film.one/film/conan-the-barbarian.md) (74)
- **Apple TV:** [*Platoon*](https://film.one/film/platoon.md) (84), [*Salvador*](https://film.one/film/salvador.md) (74)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Midnight Express*](https://film.one/film/midnight-express.md) (61)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Oliver Stone

> Oliver Stone the director trusts an audience to keep up with a crowded frame; Oliver Stone the writer keeps stopping to explain it. His best films, *Platoon* and *JFK*, survive the lectures. The weaker ones repeat themselves.

Somewhere in the third hour of *JFK* (1991), Jim Garrison is still adding names to his list and we are still keeping up. That is the Oliver Stone we like: a director who assumes we can hold a dozen faces and half as many theories in our heads, and cuts fast enough to make the effort a pleasure. Then someone pauses to say what it all means, and we remember the other Stone, the one who wrote the script. For more than forty years he has made films in which the direction trusts us and the writing does not.

The writing came first. His screenplay for Brian De Palma's *Scarface* (1983) is viciously funny about a man who wants more of everything, and it goes on wanting for 170 minutes, with some exchanges outlasting their use. *Platoon* (1986), which he wrote and directed from his own time in Vietnam, is the film in which the two halves of him work best together, and our favourite of his: the heat, the muck and the fear are shown rather than described, and Charlie Sheen's Chris Taylor has to survive before he can choose what sort of man to become. Only the contest between Dafoe's and Berenger's sergeants is tidied into positions, and that is the writer's doing. *Wall Street* (1987), *JFK* and *Natural Born Killers* (1994) followed within eight years; *Alexander* (2004), *Savages* (2012) and *Snowden* (2016) came later, and he has since turned mostly to documentaries.

Set the films side by side and the same fault appears in each. In *Wall Street*, written with Stanley Weiser, Michael Douglas makes Gordon Gekko's invitation so inviting that the film has to keep stopping to tell us why it is wrong, while Sheen's Bud Fox waits for his next instruction from the screenplay. In *JFK*, written with Zachary Sklar, suspicion spreads so widely that doubt never gets a fair hearing. In *Natural Born Killers* we felt a grubby thrill at how much attention Robert Richardson's camera and Hank Corwin and Brian Berdan's cutting lavished on Mickey and Mallory, and disliked ourselves for it, which is exactly what Stone intended; the screenplay he wrote with Richard Rutowski and David Veloz then spends the rest of the film making sure we noticed. Stone has never trusted a point to land the first time.

He has said he considers himself "a dramatist before I am a political filmmaker", and on the evidence of his best scenes we agree with him. When he lets an image or an actor carry the point, he is hard to shake; the combat in *Platoon* stays with us, and so does Douglas. When he picks up the pen to underline it, the films lose some of the tension he has just built. Start with *Platoon*, go on to *JFK*, and allow for both of them telling you what you have just seen.

## Biography

Oliver Stone is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born William Oliver Stone on 15 September 1946 in New York City and studied at New York University.

Stone served in the US Army in Vietnam. He began his screenwriting career in the 1970s and made his directorial debut with *Seizure* (1974). His early screenplays include *Midnight Express* (1978), *Conan the Barbarian* (1982) and *Scarface* (1983).

He is known for directing *Platoon* (1986), *Wall Street* (1987), *Born on the Fourth of July* (1989), *JFK* (1991), *Natural Born Killers* (1994) and *Snowden* (2016). Stone has received three Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay for *Midnight Express* and Best Director for *Platoon* and *Born on the Fourth of July*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (10)

### Directed (6)

- *Natural Born Killers* (1994), Fi1m 64, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/natural-born-killers.md)
- *JFK* (1991), Fi1m 80, Screenplay, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/jfk.md)
- *Born on the Fourth of July* (1989), Fi1m 74, as News Reporter — [page](https://film.one/film/born-on-the-fourth-of-july.md)
- *Wall Street* (1987), Fi1m 74, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/wall-street.md)
- *Platoon* (1986), Fi1m 84, as Alpha Company Major in Bunker (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/platoon.md)
- *Salvador* (1986), Fi1m 74, Writer, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/salvador.md)

### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these

- *Scarface* (1983), Fi1m 79, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/scarface.md)
- *Conan the Barbarian* (1982), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/conan-the-barbarian.md)
- *Midnight Express* (1978), Fi1m 61, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/midnight-express.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Reversal of Fortune* (1990), Fi1m 75, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/reversal-of-fortune.md)

## Complete filmography (74)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *RFK: Legacy* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Lula* (2024), Director
- *Qazaq* (2024), Producer
- *Nuclear Now* (2023), Director, Writer
- *JFK: Destiny Betrayed* (2021), series, Director, Creator
- *JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass* (2021), Director
- *Qazaq: History of the Golden Man* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *The War on Cuba* (2020), series, Executive Producer
- *Revealing Ukraine* (2019), Executive Producer
- *The Putin Interviews* (2017), series, Director, Screenplay, Creator
- *All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Snowden* (2016), Director, Screenplay
- *Ukraine on Fire* (2016), Executive Producer
- *A Good American* (2015), Executive Producer
- *My Friend Hugo* (2014), Director
- *The Untold History Of The United States* (2012), Narrator, Director, Writer
- *Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States* (2012), series, Narrator, Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Creator
- *Greystone Park* (2012), as Oliver
- *Savages* (2012), Screenplay, Director
- *Castro in Winter* (2012), Director
- *Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps* (2010), Director, Writer, Producer
- *South of the Border* (2009), Director
- *W.* (2008), Director
- *World Trade Center* (2006), Director
- *Torrente 3: The Protector* (2005), as Inglés borracho
- *Alexander* (2004), as Macedonian Soldier at Zeus Statue (uncredited) · Producer, Director, Screenplay
- *Looking for Fidel* (2004), Director, Writer
- *Persona Non Grata* (2003), Director
- *Comandante* (2003), Director, Producer
- *The Day Reagan Was Shot* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Any Given Sunday* (1999), as Tug Kowalski: TV Announcer #1 · Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
- *The Corruptor* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Savior* (1998), Producer
- *Assassinated: The Last Days of Kennedy and King* (1998), Executive Producer
- *Cold Around the Heart* (1997), Executive Producer
- *U Turn* (1997), Director
- *Gravesend* (1997), Executive Producer
- *The People vs. Larry Flynt* (1996), Producer
- *Evita* (1996), Screenplay
- *Freeway* (1996), Executive Producer
- *Nixon* (1995), Screenplay, Producer, Director
- *The New Age* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Natural Born Killers* (1994), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/natural-born-killers.md)
- *Heaven & Earth* (1993), Screenplay, Director, Producer
- *The Joy Luck Club* (1993), Executive Producer
- *From Hollywood to Hanoi* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Wild Palms* (1993), series, Producer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Dave* (1993), as Oliver Stone
- *Malcolm X* (1992), Thanks — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/malcolm-x.md)
- *Zebrahead* (1992), Executive Producer
- *South Central* (1992), Executive Producer
- *JFK* (1991), Screenplay, Producer, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/jfk.md)
- *Iron Maze* (1991), Executive Producer
- *The Doors* (1991), as UCLA Film Professor · Director, Writer
- *Reversal of Fortune* (1990), Producer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/reversal-of-fortune.md)
- *Blue Steel* (1990), Producer
- *Born on the Fourth of July* (1989), as News Reporter · Screenplay, Producer, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/born-on-the-fourth-of-july.md)
- *Talk Radio* (1988), Screenplay, Director
- *Wall Street* (1987), as Trader - Office · Writer, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/wall-street.md)
- *Platoon* (1986), as Alpha Company Major in Bunker (uncredited) · Director, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/platoon.md)
- *8 Million Ways to Die* (1986), Screenplay
- *Salvador* (1986), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/salvador.md)
- *Year of the Dragon* (1985), Screenplay
- *Scarface* (1983), Screenplay — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/scarface.md)
- *Conan the Barbarian* (1982), Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/conan-the-barbarian.md)
- *The Hand* (1981), as Bum · Director, Screenplay
- *Midnight Express* (1978), Screenplay — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/midnight-express.md)
- *Seizure* (1974), as Anchor (voice) (uncredited) · Editor, Director, Screenplay
- *Sugar Cookies* (1973), Producer
- *The Battle of Love's Return* (1971), as Cliff
- *Last Year in Viet Nam* (1971), as War Veteran · Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Director
- *Street Scenes 1970* (1970), Director of Photography, Director, Camera Operator
- *Michael and Marie* (1970), Writer, Director
- *White Lies*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Oliver Stone](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-5a3aa1fe765c.jpg) Oliver Stone — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Oliver_Stone_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Oliver_Stone_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexis Tsipras, Oliver Stone, Slavoj Zizek in Zagreb, copyright - Robert Crc (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-55d93865cb0b.jpg) Alexis Tsipras, Oliver Stone, Slavoj Zizek in Zagreb, copyright - Robert Crc (2013) — matthew_tsimitak, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Alexis_Tsipras%2C_Oliver_Stone%2C_Slavoj_Zizek_%288750991829%29.jpg/1280px-Alexis_Tsipras%2C_Oliver_Stone%2C_Slavoj_Zizek_%288750991829%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexis Tsipras, Oliver Stone, Slavoj Zizek in Zagreb, copyright - Robert Crc (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-77ad3fedf860.jpg) Alexis Tsipras, Oliver Stone, Slavoj Zizek in Zagreb, copyright - Robert Crc (2013) — matthew_tsimitak, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Alexis_Tsipras%2C_Oliver_Stone%2C_Slavoj_Zizek_%288752099718%29.jpg/1280px-Alexis_Tsipras%2C_Oliver_Stone%2C_Slavoj_Zizek_%288752099718%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexis Tsipras, Oliver Stone, Slavoj Zizek in Zagreb, copyright - Robert Crc (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-adaaed27c228.jpg) Alexis Tsipras, Oliver Stone, Slavoj Zizek in Zagreb, copyright - Robert Crc (2013) — matthew_tsimitak, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Alexis_Tsipras%2C_Oliver_Stone%2C_Slavoj_Zizek_%288752119058%29.jpg/1280px-Alexis_Tsipras%2C_Oliver_Stone%2C_Slavoj_Zizek_%288752119058%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Oliver Stone](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-8aa7cbc70453.jpg) Oliver Stone — Image via TMDB
- ![Oliver Stone](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-b1a71cdad7ee.jpg) Oliver Stone — Image via TMDB
- ![Oliver Stone](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-b35677b01389.jpg) Oliver Stone — Image via TMDB
- ![Alexis Tsipras, Oliver Stone, Slavoj Zizek in Zagreb, copyright - Robert Crc (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-c9ed4f990f30.jpg) Alexis Tsipras, Oliver Stone, Slavoj Zizek in Zagreb, copyright - Robert Crc (2013) — matthew_tsimitak, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Alexis_Tsipras%2C_Oliver_Stone%2C_Slavoj_Zizek_%288752123898%29.jpg/1280px-Alexis_Tsipras%2C_Oliver_Stone%2C_Slavoj_Zizek_%288752123898%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alexis Tsipras, Oliver Stone, Slavoj Zizek in Zagreb, copyright - Robert Crc (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-8719a771698f.jpg) Alexis Tsipras, Oliver Stone, Slavoj Zizek in Zagreb, copyright - Robert Crc (2013) — matthew_tsimitak, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Alexis_Tsipras%2C_Oliver_Stone%2C_Slavoj_Zizek_%288752129756%29.jpg/1280px-Alexis_Tsipras%2C_Oliver_Stone%2C_Slavoj_Zizek_%288752129756%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Oliver Stone](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-3d88a6c04dc0.jpg) Oliver Stone — Image via TMDB
- ![Oliver Stone](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-cb63a48290f3.jpg) Oliver Stone — Image via TMDB
- ![Oliver Stone](https://film.one/media/person/77751/gallery-24b3cdbd943e.jpg) Oliver Stone — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 3 won, 7 nominated

- 1996: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Nixon*
- 1992: Best Director (nominated), for *JFK*
- 1992: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *JFK*
- 1992: Best Picture (nominated), for *JFK*
- 1990: Best Director (won), for *Born on the Fourth of July*
- 1990: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Born on the Fourth of July*
- 1990: Best Picture (nominated), for *Born on the Fourth of July*
- 1987: Best Director (won), for *Platoon*
- 1987: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Platoon*
- 1979: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *Midnight Express*

### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won

- 1988: Best Direction (won), for *Platoon*

### Golden Globes — 4 won

- 1992: Golden Globe Awards (won)
- 1990: Golden Globe Awards (won)
- 1987: Golden Globe Awards (won)
- 1979: Golden Globe Awards (won)

### Berlin International Film Festival — 2 won

- 1990: Golden Bear (won)
- 1987: Silver Bear (won)

### Other awards — 5 won, 1 nominated

- Sitges Grand Honorary Award 2015: Sitges Grand Honorary Award (won)
- Donostia Award 2012: Donostia Award (won)
- Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival 1994: Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival (won)
- Officer of Arts and Letters 1992: Officer of Arts and Letters (won)
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 1991: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (won), for *JFK*
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay 1986: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay (nominated), for *Year of the Dragon*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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