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Oliver Stone

(New York, USA, 1946) served with the U.S. Army in Vietnam in 1967-68 and completed his studies at New York University Film School in 1971. In 1978 he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay with Midnight Express. In 1986 he directed Platoon, awarded with four Academy Awards, and 1989 he won a second Academy Award for Best Director with Born on the Fourth of July. After The Doors and JFK, he completed the trilogy about Vietnam in 1993 with Heaven and Earth and directed Natural Born Killers, written by Quentin Tarantino. Between 2003 and 2004 he shot three political documentaries and in 2006 he directed World Trade Center. In 2010, he directed Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, a sequel to one of his cult films, Wall Street. His recent feature films include Savages, released in 2012, and Snowden, which came out in 2016. In 2022, he presented the documentary Nuclear Now at Venice.

FILMOGRAFIA

Last Year in Vietnam (cm, 1971), Seizure (La regina del male, 1974), Mad Man of Martinique (cm, 1979), The Hand (La mano, 1981), Salvador (id., 1986), Platoon (id., 1986), Wall Street (id., 1987), Talk Radio (id., 1988), Born on the Fourth of July (Nato il quattro luglio, 1989), The Doors (id., 1991), JFK (JFK - Un caso ancora aperto, 1991), Heaven and Earth (Tra cielo e terra, 1993), Natural Born Killers (Assassini nati, 1994), Nixon (Nixon - Gli intrighi del potere, 1995), U Turn (U Turn - Inversione di marcia, 1997), Any Given Sunday (Ogni maledetta domenica, 1999), Comandante (doc., 2003), Persona non grata (doc., tv, 2003), Looking for Fidel (mm, doc., tv, 2004), Alexander (id., 2004), World Trade Center (id., 2006), W. (2008), South of the Border (A sud del confine, doc., 2009), The Untold Story of the United States (Oliver Stone – USA, la storia mai raccontata, miniserie tv, 2012-13), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Wall Street – Il denaro non dorme mai, 2010), Savages (Le belve, 2012), Snowden (id., 2016), The Vladimir Putin Interviews (The Putin Interviews, miniserie tv, 2017), JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (doc., 2021), Nuclear Now (Nuclear, doc., 2022).