Platoon (film) the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1987; it also won Best Director for Oliver Stone, as well as Best Sound and Best Film Editing. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed "Platoon" at #83 in their "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies" poll. In 1967, U.S. Army volunteer Chris Taylor arrives in South Vietnam and is assigned to an infantry platoon of the 25th Infantry Division near the Cambodian border. The platoon is officially led by the young and inexperienced Lieutenant Wolfe, but in reality the soldiers defer to two of his older and more experienced subordinates: the hardened and
James B. Clark (director) in 1941, which won Academy Awards for both best picture and best director, and for which Clark received a nomination for best editing. In 1942 he edited Henry Hathaway's Oscar-nominated "Ten Gentlemen from West Point", and the musical film "Stormy Weather" (which featured an all-African American cast) in 1943. Throughout the 1940s and the 1950s, he was one of Hollywood's most reliable film editors, working on such high-profile projects as Nunnally Johnson's Oscar-nominated "Holy Matrimony" (1943), the religious epic "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944), John M. Stahl's Oscar-winning "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945), Howard Hawks' comedy "I Was a