Who is Oliver Stone?
Oliver Stone is a film director and writer. He has created some of the most thought provoking and controversial films of the last two decades. His films are relevant not only to himself, but to the world at large. Oliver Stone was born on 15 September 1946 in New York City. Stone studied Liberal Arts at Yale University, but left after only one year. After a stint as an English teacher in South Vietnam and a trip to Mexico, Stone enlisted in the US army. It was 1967, and with the Vietnam War, Stone found himself again in Vietnam, this time taking part in active combat duty. Oliver Stone won awards for extraordinary acts of bravery under fire. He was to use his experiences in the war as the basis for three of his most personal films. His Vietnam trilogy looked at the war from different points of view. Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven and Earth (1993) were all either semi-autobiographical or true stories. Prior to making his name as a film director, Oliver Ston
