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
Richard Rush (director) Richard Rush (director) Richard Rush (born April 15, 1929 in New York, New York) is an American film director, scriptwriter, and producer. He is best known for the Oscar-nominated "The Stunt Man". His other works, however, have been less celebrated. The next best-known of his films is "Color of Night" — the film won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of 1994, but "Maxim" magazine also singled the film out as having the Best Sex Scene in film history. Rush also directed "Freebie and the Bean", an over-the-top police buddy comedy/drama starring Alan Arkin and James Caan. He