"The film director Oliver Stone won 2 ""Best Director"" oscars. His first in 1987 was for ""Platoon"". His second, in 1990, was for what film?"
Oliver Stone Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American writer and filmmaker. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of "Midnight Express" (1978). He also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie "Scarface" (1983). Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama "Platoon" (1986), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director and the film received Best Picture. "Platoon" was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989)—for
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