William Oliver Stone (born 15 September 1946 ), usually known as Oliver Stone , is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Wall Street (1987) 1.1.1 DVD Director’s Commentary (2000) 2 External...
"There is enough incense burning here to make you cough way out in the hall. There are also a meditation cushion, a stationary bicycle, and a shelf filled with ... journals; he writes in them, he says, for at least twenty minutes every day.... The...
Oliver Stone's harrowing movies about life in an era bereft of morals have earned both lofty praise and stern condemnation. Stone (born 1946) is a pioneer writer-director of films that show the direct human consequences of national policy, whether it...
Since the mid-1970s, Oliver Stone has been involved in writing, directing, and producing over 30 films in a wide range of styles and genres. Most of his work has been critically and commercially successful, but, since the 1980s, it has also been...
In his op-ed piece castigating Oliver Stone for distorting history in "Nixon" {"White Lies and Whoppers," Jan. 1}, Robert D. Novak reveals himself to be an advocate of the very act he condemns. Mr. Novak writes that "Stone's defenders have noted that Shakespeare distorted...
When it was announced last month that your next movie will be a biography of America's disgraced 37th president, a joke circulated in Hollywood. It was that the poster for Oliver Stone's Nixon would have a line across the top reading "He was a...
Oliver Stone is ready to put the life of George W. Bush on the big screen.The Oscar-winning director has been quietly shopping a script for "Bush" — a film focusing on the life and presidency of George W. Bush, according to Daily Variety.Stone, an outspoken...
Oliver Stone will direct a TV commercial as part of a campaign by MoveOn.org and VoteVets.org to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq.The Oscar-winning director and Vietnam veteran will direct a 30-second spot that will air in about three weeks on national TV. It will...
