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
Filmfare Award for Best Director Zoya Akhtar won it for "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara" in 2012.Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari won it for "Bareilly Ki Barfi" in 2018. Other women Directors to have been nominated are Mira Nair for "Salaam Bombay!" in 1990, Farah Khan for "Main Hoon Na" in 2005 and for "Om Shanti Om" in 2008, Gauri Shinde for "English Vinglish" in 2013 and Meghna Gulzar for "Talvar in 2016 Rajkumar Santoshi remains the only Director to have won the Award for his first two films, Ghayal and Damini Nitesh Tiwari and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari are the only married couple to win the award. Nitesh