Under the AFL's collective bargaining agreement, players make $830 per game, meaning members of the Power earn $14,940, before taxes, in an 18-game regular season that spans four months. They also have the option to rent a subsidized apartment for $150 a month, an amenity that used to be free.
As a director, Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama Platoon (1986), for which Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director; the film was awarded Best Picture.
History [edit]. Throughout the past 87 years, AMPAS has presented a total of 89 Best Directing awards to 67 different directors. At the 1st Academy Awards (1927 / 1928), there were two directing awardsâone for Dramatic Direction and one for Comedy Direction. The Comedy Direction award was eliminated the next year and, indeed, the awards have overwhelmingly favored dramatic films ever since. At both the 34th Academy Awards (1961) and the 80th Academy Awards (2007), Best Directing was presented to a co-directing team, rather than to an individual director. The earliest years of the award were marked by inconsistency and confusion.