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
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the submitting country as a whole. For example, the Oscar statuette won by the Canadian film "The Barbarian Invasions" (2003) was until recently on display at the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City. It is now on display at the TIFF Bell lightbox. The rules currently governing the Foreign Language Film category state that "the Academy statuette (Oscar) will be awarded to the picture and "accepted" by the director on behalf of the film's creative talents" (emphasis added). Therefore, the director does not "personally" win the Award, but simply accepts it during the ceremony. In fact, the Foreign Language