Oliver Stone

WIlliam Oliver Stone was born on September 15, 1946 at Doctors Hospital in New York City, the only child of Jacqueline (née Goddet){{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnDDsL8Fd7M| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211029/xnDDsL8Fd7M| archive-date=October 29, 2021|title=Director Oliver Stone Tells Us Why America Is Not Exceptional|last=Greg Hengler|date=January 4, 2013|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} and Louis Stone (born Abraham Louis Silverstein), a stockbroker.{{Cite news |title=washingtonpost.com: OLIVER STONE'S MOTHER LODE |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/foliverstone.htm |access-date=April 11, 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} His parents met in his mother's hometown of Paris during World War II where his father, a U.S. Army colonel, served as a financial officer on General Eisenhower's staff.{{cite web|title=Biography: Oliver Stone on Filmmaking, Platoon, Vietnam, Nicaragua & El Salvador (1987)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEWtSmsTCoQ| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211029/rEWtSmsTCoQ| archive-date=October 29, 2021|website=YouTube|publisher=National Press Club|access-date=March 21, 2015}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite book |last=Riordan |first=James |title=Stone: The Controversies, Excesses and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker |publisher=Hyperion |year=1996 |isbn=978-0786860265 |pages=6}} Stone's paternal great-grandparents were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Poland. His grandfather, Joshua Silverstein, owned and operated successful skirt-making companies in New York City and New Jersey.{{Cite journal |date=October 1917 |title=Joshua and Louis Silverstein Now Sole Owners of the Star Skirt Company. |journal=The American Cloak and Suit Review |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=181}} His aunt was author and editor Babette Rosmond and his cousins are writer Gene Stone and former chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission James Stone.{{Cite news |last=King |first=Seth |date=1979-05-27 |title=James Stone: A Seat of Thorns |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/27/archives/james-stone-a-seat-of-thorns.html |access-date=2025-04-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} The family changed its surname from Silverstein to Stone in the 1920's due to rampant antisemitism in the United States. Stone himself grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. While his American father was Jewish, his French mother was Roman Catholic, though both were non-practicing."Télématin" (France 2), September 28, 2010. Stone was raised in the Episcopal Church{{cite web|url=http://www.adherents.com/people/ps/Oliver_Stone.html |title=The religion of director Oliver Stone |publisher=Adherents.com |access-date=September 30, 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202151204/http://www.adherents.com/people/ps/Oliver_Stone.html |archive-date=December 2, 2010 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/foliverstone.htm |title=Oliver Stone's Mother Lode |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 11, 1997 |access-date=August 13, 2010 |archive-date=March 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327093630/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/foliverstone.htm |url-status=live }} and now practices Buddhism.{{cite news |author=Timothy Rhys |title=Oliver Stone Unturned: The Natural Born Killers Director on War, Art, and Religion |work=MovieMaker |date=April 15, 1995 |access-date=January 4, 2023 |url=https://www.moviemaker.com/oliver-stone-natural-born-killers/|archive-date=April 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427191351/https://www.moviemaker.com/archives/moviemaking/directing/oliver-stone-natural-born-killers/ |url-status=live }}

Stone attended kindergarten through eighth grade at Trinity School in New York City before being sent to The Hill School, a college-preparatory boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. In 1962, his parents divorced abruptly while he was at The Hill and this, because he was an only child, marked him deeply. Stone’s father was awarded sole physical and legal custody and, because his mother was often absent, his father had a dominant influence on his life. This may explain why father-son relationships are a recurring theme in Stone's films.{{cite news|last=Cadwalladr|first=Carole|title=Oliver Stone and the politics of film-making|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/jul/18/oliver-stone-chavez-wall-street|access-date=July 22, 2010|newspaper=The Observer|date=July 18, 2010|location=paragraphs 31 and 42|archive-date=January 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116183712/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/jul/18/oliver-stone-chavez-wall-street|url-status=live}} Stone's main caregiver in childhood was his male nanny, Karlo Stojanac. A Yugoslavian Holocaust survivor, Stojanac was openly gay and a Socialist, both unusual for the time period. Describing their relationship as "extraordinarily close," Stone added that Stojanac "was my mentor in many ways. He took care of me and he loved me."{{Cite book |last=Riordan |first=James |title=Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker |publisher=Hyperion |year=1995 |isbn=0-7868-6026-X |pages=13}}

He often spent summers with his maternal grandparents in France, both in Paris and La Ferté-sous-Jouarre in Seine-et-Marne, where he was fascinated by his grandfather's stories of serving in the French Army during World War I. At 17, Stone worked as a runner in the Paris Commodities Exchange, a job that later proved inspirational for his film Wall Street. He speaks French fluently.Galloway, Stephen. Oliver Stone: Less Crazy After All These Years. The Hollywood Reporter June 13, 2012. [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stone-savages-336458] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810075308/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stone-savages-336458|date=August 10, 2020}} Accessed September 28, 2017

Stone graduated from The Hill School in 1964 and was admitted to Yale University, but left in June 1965 at age 18{{cite web |url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2003/sep/19/famous-failures/ |work=Yale Daily News |title=Famous Failures |first=EMILY |last=ANTHES |date=September 19, 2003 |access-date=November 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111022040940/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2003/sep/19/famous-failures/ |archive-date=October 22, 2011 |url-status=dead }} to teach high school students English for six months in Saigon at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam.{{cite web |last=Lin |first=Ho |url=http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/famous-veteran-oliver-stone.html |title=Famous Veterans: Oliver Stone |publisher=Military.com |date=September 16, 1967 |access-date=September 21, 2016 |archive-date=September 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920220557/http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/famous-veteran-oliver-stone.html |url-status=live }} Afterwards, he worked for a short while as a wiper on a United States Merchant Marine ship in 1966, traveling from Asia to the US across the rough Pacific Ocean in January.{{cite web |last1=Kreisler |first1=Harry |title=Conversations with history – a discussion with Oliver Stone (23 May 2016) |url=https://www.uctv.tv/shows/Movies-Politics-and-History-with-Oliver-Stone-Conversations-with-History-30881 |website=www.uctv.tv |publisher=UC TV, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=November 13, 2018 |archive-date=November 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113165658/https://www.uctv.tv/shows/Movies-Politics-and-History-with-Oliver-Stone-Conversations-with-History-30881 |url-status=live }} He returned to Yale, where he dropped out a second time (in part due to working on an autobiographical novel A Child's Night Dream, published in 1997 by St. Martin's Press).Famous Failures. Yale Daily News September 19, 2003. [http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2003/09/19/famous-failures/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928145843/http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2003/09/19/famous-failures/|date=September 28, 2017}} accessed September 28, 2017 During this period, Stone also battled severe depression.{{Cite book |last=Riordan |first=James |title=Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker |publisher=Hyperion Books |year=1996 |isbn=978-0786860265 |location=New York |pages=38–40}}

In April 1967, Stone enlisted in the United States Army and requested combat duty in Vietnam. From September 27, 1967, to February 23, 1968, he served in Vietnam with 2nd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. In October 1967, Stone was medevaced after being shot in the neck during a night ambush, a wound which nearly severed his jugular vein. While fighting in the New Year's Battle of 1968, he was knocked unconscious and had his eardrum perforated by the concussive blast of a beehive round, which resulted in permanent hearing damage. (As he did not leave duty or receive medical treatment, this injury did not qualify for a Purple Heart. As a result, Stone often refers to himself as "twice wounded," referencing only the injuries for which he did receive Purple Hearts.) On January 15, 1968, Stone was wounded and evacuated from the 25th Infantry Division for the final time, when - while attempting to aid other injured personnel - a satchel charge implanted in a tree detonated, causing a blast concussion and shrapnel wounds to his legs and buttocks.{{Cite book |last=Stone |first=Oliver |title=Chasing the Light |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=2020 |isbn=9780358522508 |pages=40–43, 90}}

Following a month-long hospital stay, Stone briefly served transitional duty as a military policeman in Saigon. He was then transferred to the 1st Cavalry Division, participating in long-range reconnaissance patrols, before being transferred permanently to Troop D, 1st Squadron of the 9th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cav. While serving with that unit on August 21, 1968, Stone charged and killed a North Vietnamese sniper who had several squads pinned down during a crossfire firefight near My Khe beach (nicknamed "China Beach" by the U.S. Army). For that action, he was awarded the Bronze Star with "V" Device for "heroism in ground combat."{{Cite book |last=Riordan |first=James |title=Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker |publisher=Hyperion Books |year=1996 |isbn=978-0786860265 |pages=55}}{{Cite book |last=Zoller Seitz |first=Matt |title=The Oliver Stone Experience |publisher=Abrams |year=2016 |isbn=9781419717901 |pages=49}} He was released from active duty on November 15, 1968 and officially discharged from the Army on April 1, 1973.

In addition to the Bronze Star, his military awards include the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster to denote two awards, the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, Sharpshooter Badge with Rifle Bar, Marksman Badge with Auto Rifle Bar, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal with one Silver Service Star, the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Unit Citation with Palm, two Overseas Service Bars, the Vietnam Campaign Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge.{{cite web |title=NARA Release |url=https://imgur.com/a/Q7lEmk9 |access-date=March 27, 2022 |website=Imgur}}

On June 30, 1969, the French news program Voila interviewed a then-unknown Stone while filming "on the street" interviews about the war in Central Park. In fluent French, he told them, "My name is Oliver Stone, I’m 22 years old, I’m from New York, and my mother is French from Paris. I served in Vietnam with the American Army for 15 months and I returned to the United States six months ago. It changed me. It changes a lot of boys." He added that drug use was rampant among American soldiers.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=vwct7-HX1ZJP5GNW&t=26&v=HeqVT4ARSjw&feature=youtu.be |title=Oliver Stone : invité exceptionnel ! – C à Vous – 07/10/2020 |date=2020-10-08 |last=C à vous – France Télévisions |access-date=2024-12-23 |via=YouTube}}

Following the war, Stone suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – Grounded with Louis Theroux – Oliver Stone: Nine things we learned when he spoke to Louis Theroux |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/YGtsLmvWGzlxflFKb56Lgq/oliver-stone-nine-things-we-learned-when-he-spoke-to-louis-theroux#:~:text=3.,led%20him%20to%20film%20school. |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}} His PTSD was compounded by a violent mugging he experienced in the East Village in the summer of 1969, during which he sustained defensive knife wounds.{{Cite news |last=Newman |first=Bruce |date=1999-11-14 |title=HOLIDAY FILMS: SPORTING LIFE; Oliver Stone Goes to War Again, With Cleats On |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/14/movies/holiday-films-sporting-life-oliver-stone-goes-to-war-again-with-cleats-on.html |access-date=2025-03-29 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Stone has also described long-term physical complications from his military service, specifically combat induced hearing loss and tinnitus, minor discomfort from shrapnel still embedded in his body, and fertility issues he believes were caused by Agent Orange exposure.{{Cite book |last=Stone |first=Oliver |title=Chasing the Light |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=2020 |isbn=9780358346234 |pages=67}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=_NsuGaXSkg0nmigD&v=q0vSevftixo&feature=youtu.be |title=Oliver Stone: Untold - An Interview with Bob Woodruff |date=2012-11-26 |last=U-M Stamps School of Art & Design |access-date=2025-01-12 |via=YouTube}} In 2024, he commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War's conclusion by sharing his reflections during panel discussions at the Harvard Institute of Politics{{Cite web |title=Harvard College Calendar |url=https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/a-half-century-voyage-beyond-the-vietnam-war |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=Harvard College Calendar |language=en}} and San Diego State University's Center for War and Society.{{Cite web |title=Oliver Stone: on being 19 in war, and for a county addicted to it {{!}} Responsible Statecraft |url=https://responsiblestatecraft.org/oliver-stone-vietnam/ |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=responsiblestatecraft.org |language=en}} Stone is also an honorary board member of the nonprofit organizations Veterans for Peace and The National Veterans Foundation.{{Cite web |title=National Veterans Foundation Honorary Board Members |url=https://nvf.org/honorary-board-members/ |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=National Veterans Foundation |language=en-US}}

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Stone attended New York University on the G.I. Bill, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film in 1971, where his teachers included director and fellow NYU alumnus Martin Scorsese.{{cite web|last=Seitz|first=Matt|title=Oliver Stone on New York in the Sixties and Seventies and Taking Film Classes With Martin Scorsese|url=https://www.vulture.com/2013/10/oliver-stone-on-going-to-nyu-with-scorsese.html|work=Vulture|publisher=New York Magazine|access-date=October 29, 2013|date=October 28, 2013|archive-date=October 31, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031001434/http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/oliver-stone-on-going-to-nyu-with-scorsese.html|url-status=live}} The same year, he had a small acting role in the comedy The Battle of Love's Return.M.J. Simpson [http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/interviews/lloydkaufmana.html Interview with Lloyd Kaufman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621053248/http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/interviews/lloydkaufmana.html |date=June 21, 2008 }} In Scorsese's class, Stone made a short, well received 12-minute film about a disabled veteran, Last Year in Viet Nam. He also worked as a taxi driver, production assistant, messenger, and salesman before making his mark in film as a screenwriter in the late 1970's.

In 1979, Stone was awarded his first Oscar, after adapting true-life prison story Midnight Express into the successful film of the same name for British director Alan Parker (the two men would later collaborate on the 1996 movie of stage musical Evita). The original author, Billy Hayes, around whom the film is set, said the film's depiction of prison conditions was accurate. Hayes said that the "message of Midnight Express isn't, 'Don't go to Turkey. It's, 'Don't be an idiot like I was, and try to smuggle drugs.' "{{cite news |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/156011_midnightexpress.html |title=The real Billy Hayes regrets 'Midnight Express' cast all Turks in a bad light |publisher=Seattlepi.com |date=January 10, 2004 |access-date=August 13, 2010 |first1=John |last1=Flinn |archive-date=March 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305165731/https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/movies/article/The-real-Billy-Hayes-regrets-Midnight-Express-1134196.php |url-status=live }} Stone later apologized to Turkey for over-dramatizing the script, while standing by the film's stark depiction of the brutality of Turkish prisons.{{cite web |last=Krassner |first=Paul |url=http://www.laweekly.com/2005-01-06/news/oliver-stone-apologizes-to-turkey/ |title=Oliver Stone Apologizes to Turkey |publisher=Laweekly.com |date=January 6, 2005 |access-date=September 21, 2016 |archive-date=July 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726003309/http://www.laweekly.com/2005-01-06/news/oliver-stone-apologizes-to-turkey/ |url-status=live }}

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Stone continued to write feature films, including Brian De Palma's drug lord epic Scarface, loosely inspired by his own addiction to cocaine, which he successfully kicked while working on the screenplay.{{cite news|url=http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the-total-film-interview-oliver-stone|title=The Total Film Interview – Oliver Stone|date=November 1, 2003|access-date=October 15, 2008|publisher=Total Film|archive-date=January 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104215433/http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the-total-film-interview-oliver-stone|url-status=live}} He also penned Year of the Dragon (co-written with Michael Cimino) featuring Mickey Rourke, before his career took off as a writer-director in 1986. Like his contemporary Michael Mann, Stone is unusual in having written or co-written most of the films he has directed. In 1986, Stone directed two films back to back: the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful Salvador, shot largely in Mexico, and his long in-development Vietnam project Platoon, shot in the Philippines.

Platoon brought Stone's name to a much wider audience. It also kick-started a busy directing career which saw him direct nine films over the next decade. Platoon won rave reviews (Roger Ebert named it the best film of 1986 and later called it the ninth best film of the decade), massive commercial success, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. In 2007, a film industry vote ranked it at number 83 in an American Film Institute "AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies" poll of the previous century's best American movies. British TV channel Channel 4 voted Platoon as the sixth greatest war film ever made.{{cite web |title=Channel 4's 100 Greatest War Movies of All Time |url=http://www.thependragon.co.uk/Channel4WarFilms.htm |access-date=August 13, 2011 |archive-date=September 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930175058/http://www.thependragon.co.uk/Channel4WarFilms.htm |url-status=live }} In 2019, Platoon was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."{{cite magazine |last=Chow |first=Andrew R. |date=December 11, 2019 |title=See the 25 New Additions to the National Film Registry, From Purple Rain to Clerks |url=https://time.com/5747503/national-film-registry-2019-additions/ |magazine=Time |location=New York, NY |access-date=December 11, 2019 |archive-date=October 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026041943/https://time.com/5747503/national-film-registry-2019-additions/ |url-status=live }}

While Platoon was about Stone's own experience in combat, he followed it with two other films showing different perspectives of the Vietnam War. In 1989, he co-wrote and directed Born on the Fourth of July, based on the autobiography of Ron Kovic, a Marine who became an anti-war activist after being paralyzed in combat. The film was a critical success, receiving eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and earning Stone his second Best Director Oscar. It was also a commercial success, grossing $161 million against a budget of just $17.8 million to become the tenth highest-grossing film of that year. {{Cite web |last=Heffernan |first=Ryan |date=2025-03-31 |title=10 Most Essential Movies of 1989, Ranked |url=https://collider.com/1989-movies-essential-ranked/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Collider |language=en}} Heaven & Earth (1993) was the final film in his unofficial Vietnam trilogy, written and directed by Stone based on the memoirs of Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese woman whose life was drastically changed by the war and its aftermath.

Immediately following the success of Platoon, Stone co-wrote and directed another hit, 1987's Wall Street, starring Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas, who received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as ruthless corporate raider Gordon Gekko. After Wall Street, Stone co-wrote and directed Talk Radio, based on Eric Bogosian's Pulitzer-nominated play. The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and Stone received his third Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Director.

In 1990, Stone produced the Oscar-winning movie Reversal of Fortune. The following year, he co-wrote and directed The Doors. The film received criticism from former Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison's former girlfriend, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, who was a consultant on the movie (she also makes a cameo appearance). However, she later wrote in her memoir Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison that Stone ignored her feedback and proceeded with his own version of events.{{Cite news |title=She Slams 'Doors' on Portrayal |newspaper=New York Post |date=March 1991}} The other surviving former members of the band, John Densmore and Robby Krieger, also cooperated with the filming of The Doors, but Krieger distanced himself before the film's release. However, Densmore thought highly of the film,{{cite magazine |first=Jim |last=Clash |date=January 25, 2015 |title=Doors Drummer John Densmore On Oliver Stone, Cream's Ginger Baker (Part 3) |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2015/01/25/doors-drummer-john-densmore-on-oliver-stone-creams-ginger-baker-part-3/ |magazine=Forbes |access-date=May 21, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414030707/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2015/01/25/doors-drummer-john-densmore-on-oliver-stone-creams-ginger-baker-part-3/amp/ |url-status=live }} and celebrated its DVD release on a panel with Oliver Stone.

During the same year, Stone co-wrote and directed one of his most ambitious, controversial and successful films: JFK, depicting the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 and its aftermath. The film was a huge commercial success and earned eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Stone also published an annotated version of the screenplay shortly after the film's released, adding, "I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn."{{cite web |last=Petersen |first=Scott |title=Oliver Stone: Natural Born Director |url=http://www.craveonline.com/filmtv/articles/04648829/3/oliver_stone_natural_born_director.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011014931/http://www.craveonline.com/filmtv/articles/04648829/3/oliver_stone_natural_born_director.html |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |access-date=September 30, 2010 |publisher=Craveonline.com |df=mdy-all}} Due to public reaction to the film, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 ("JFK Records Act"), directing the National Archives and Records Administration to collect and house all assassination-related records and release them by 2017. The act also established the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), whose work was the subject of Stone's 2021 documentary miniseries JFK: Destiny Betrayed. On April 27, 1992 Stone testified before the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Legislation and National Affairs in support of the act's passage. In introducing Stone at the hearing, chairman Rep. John Conyers Jr. stated: "You are probably the reason that we're all here today. You've moved the country and your Congress to immediate activity."{{Cite web |date=April 28, 1992 |title=Disclosure of JFK Assassination Records |url=https://www.c-span.org/program/house-committee/disclosure-of-jfk-assassination-records/19039 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250326061557/https://www.c-span.org/program/house-committee/disclosure-of-jfk-assassination-records/19039 |archive-date=March 26, 2025 |access-date=March 31, 2025 |website=C-SPAN}}

In 1994, Stone co-wrote and directed Natural Born Killers, a violent crime film intended to satirize the modern media. The film had originally been based on a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, but underwent significant rewriting by Stone, Richard Rutowski, and David Veloz.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/natural-born-killers_shoot.html|title="Natural Born Killers", shooting draft, revised by Richard Rutowski & Oliver Stone|website=www.dailyscript.com|access-date=August 1, 2019|archive-date=August 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806214524/http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/natural-born-killers_shoot.html|url-status=live}} Before it was released, the MPAA gave the film a NC-17 rating; this caused Stone to cut four minutes of film footage to obtain an R rating (he eventually released the unrated version on VHS and DVD in 2001). The film was the recipient of the Grand Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000681/1994/1/|title=Venice Film Festival (1994)|website=IMDb|access-date=August 1, 2019|archive-date=September 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916214820/https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000681/1994/1/|url-status=live}} That same year, Stone appeared in a cameo as himself in the presidential comedy Dave and produced The Joy Luck Club, the second American film to feature a majority Asian cast telling a contemporary Asian-American story.

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Stone went on to co-write and direct the 1995 Richard Nixon biopic Nixon, which received Oscar nominations for the script, John Williams' score, Joan Allen's performance as Pat Nixon and Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of the title role. In 1996, Stone produced the films Freeway and The People vs. Larry Flynt and was credited as co-writer of Evita (as it was based on his original adaptation of the stage musical). He finished the decade by co-writing and directing the 1997 film noir U Turn and 1999's Any Given Sunday, a film about power struggles within an American football team.

After over a decade (1986-1999), wherein he wrote and directed a new film almost every year, Stone slowed his pace at the turn of the century. He first released his historical epic Alexander in 2004, but it was a notorious box office flop. He later re-edited it into a two-part, 3-hour 37-minute film Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut, which became one of the highest-selling catalog items from Warner Bros.[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=247524742023620&id=137199066350088 Alexander – Words from Oliver Stone: Thank you very much...] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20131012161110/https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=247524742023620&id=137199066350088 |date=October 12, 2013 }}. Facebook. Retrieved on May 22, 2014. He further refined the film and in 2014 released the two-part, 3-hour 26-minute Alexander: The Ultimate Cut. After Alexander, Stone directed World Trade Center, based on the true story of two PAPD policemen who were trapped in the rubble and survived the September 11 attacks. The film was a commercial success. Stone then wrote and directed the George W. Bush biopic W., which chronicles the president's life up until the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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In 2010, Stone directed his only sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373159/ |title=Money Never Sleeps |work=IMDb |access-date=September 7, 2009 |archive-date=September 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915234141/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373159/ |url-status=live }} Two years later, he directed the crime thriller Savages, based on the novel by Don Winslow.

In 2016, Stone directed Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as whistleblower Edward Snowden. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was not a commercial success. As of 2025, it remains Stone's final narrative feature film. On May 22, 2017, various industry papers announced that Stone was going to direct his first scripted television series about the Guantanamo detention camp for Weinstein Television. However, Stone quit the project after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against Harvey Weinstein in October 2017 and it was never made.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stone-clarifies-comments-backs-guantanamo-tv-series-weinstein-involved-1048460|title=Oliver Stone Clarifies Comments, Backs Out of 'Guantanamo' TV Series If Weinstein Co. Involved|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=October 12, 2017|access-date=April 16, 2020|archive-date=April 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416102206/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stone-clarifies-comments-backs-guantanamo-tv-series-weinstein-involved-1048460|url-status=live}}

In 2020, Stone announced his semi-retirement from film-making, though he still occasionally makes documentaries.{{Cite web |last=Gostin |first=Nicki |date=2020-08-06 |title=Exclusive {{!}} Oliver Stone thinks Charlie Sheen 'had more potential' |url=https://pagesix.com/2020/08/06/oliver-stone-says-charlie-sheen-had-more-potential/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |language=en-US}} In July of that same year, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published his first memoir, Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game, which chronicles his turbulent upbringing in New York City, volunteering for combat in Vietnam, and the trials and triumphs of moviemaking in the 1970s and '80s. The book, which ends on his Oscar-winning Platoon, was praised by The New York Times: "The Oliver Stone depicted in these pages – vulnerable, introspective, stubbornly tenacious and frequently heartbroken—may just be the most sympathetic character he's ever written... neatly sets the stage for the possibility of that rarest of Stone productions: a sequel."{{cite news|last=Svetkey|first=Benjamin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/books/review/oliver-stone-chasing-the-light.html|title=Oliver Stone's Reel History|work=The New York Times|date=July 20, 2020|access-date=January 9, 2022|archive-date=December 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201218113819/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/books/review/oliver-stone-chasing-the-light.html|url-status=live}} In 2024, he announced that he was writing a follow-up memoir for Simon & Schuster.{{Cite web |last=Armstrong |first=Deborah L. |date=2024-03-13 |title=George Soros' "Reporters" Write Hit Piece Smearing Oliver Stone's Co-Producer |url=https://medium.com/@deborahlarmstrong/george-soros-reporters-write-hit-piece-smearing-oliver-stone-s-co-producer-b15af7d943f7 |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=Medium |language=en}} Also in 2024, Stone donated his archives to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-31 |title=Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences Announces New Acquisitions To The Academy Collection, Now Comprising More Than 52 Million Items |url=https://www.shootonline.com/spw/academy-of-motion-picture-arts-and-sciences-announces-new-acquisitions-to-the-academy-collection-now-comprising-more-than-52-million-items/ |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=SHOOTonline |language=en-US}}

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In the 21st century, Stone increasingly shifted to making documentaries. His first, Comandante (2003), about Cuban leader Fidel Castro, was followed by two sequels: Looking for Fidel (2004) and Castro in Winter (2012). Also in 2003, Stone made Persona Non Grata, an HBO documentary on Israeli-Palestinian relations, in which he interviewed several notable Israeli leaders, including Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu and Shimon Peres, as well as Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

In 2009, Stone completed a feature-length documentary, South of the Border about the rise of leftist governments in Latin America, featuring seven presidents: Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Cuba's Raúl Castro, the Kirchners of Argentina, Brazil's Lula da Silva, and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, all of whom are critical of US foreign policy in South America. Stone hoped the film would get the rest of the Western world to rethink socialist policies in South America, particularly as it was being applied by Venezuela's Hugo Chávez. Chávez joined Stone for the premiere of the documentary at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2009.

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In 2012, the documentary miniseries Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States premiered on Showtime, Stone co-wrote, directed, produced, and narrated the series, having worked on it since 2008 with co-writers American University historian Peter J. Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham.{{cite news |last=Lowry |first=Brian |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117948726 |title=Review: 'Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States' |work=Variety |date=November 11, 2012 |access-date=December 12, 2012 |archive-date=December 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215042502/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117948726 |url-status=live }} The 10-part series was supplemented by a 750-page companion book of the same name, also written by Stone and Kuznick, published on October 30, 2012 by Simon & Schuster.{{cite web |url=https://catalog.simonandschuster.com/TitleDetails/TitleDetails.aspx?cid=1303&pn=1&isbn=9781451613513&FilterBy=&FilterVal=&FilterByName=&ob=0&ed=&showcart=N&camefrom=&find=&a= |title=Digital Catalog – The Untold History of the United States |publisher=Catalog.simonandschuster.com |access-date=December 12, 2012 |archive-date=June 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602033232/https://catalog.simonandschuster.com/TitleDetails/TitleDetails.aspx?cid=1303&pn=1&isbn=9781451613513&FilterBy=&FilterVal=&FilterByName=&ob=0&ed=&showcart=N&camefrom=&find=&a= |url-status=live }} Stone described the project as "the most ambitious thing I've ever done. Certainly in documentary form, and perhaps in fiction, feature form."Ed Rampell [https://archive.today/20120707025804/http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/149582/ "Q&A: Oliver Stone on Israel, Palestine and Newt Gingrich"], "The Jewish Daily Forward", January 15, 2012 The project received positive reviews from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev,{{cite book |url=http://books.simonandschuster.com/Untold-History-of-the-United-States/Peter-Kuznick/9781451613513 |title=Gorbachev on Untold History, October 2012 |publisher=Books.simonandschuster.com |date=October 15, 2013 |isbn=9781451616446 |access-date=September 21, 2016 |archive-date=September 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140922190856/http://books.simonandschuster.com/Untold-History-of-the-United-States/Peter-Kuznick/9781451613513 |url-status=live }} The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald,Glenn Greenwald [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/30/obama-first-term-racism-charges "Various Items: Oliver Stone is releasing a new book"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317055411/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/30/obama-first-term-racism-charges |date=March 17, 2017 }} The Guardian. October 30, 2012 and reviewers from IndieWire,[https://www.indiewire.com/article/television/oliver-stones-untold-history-of-the-united-states, "Oliver Stone Premieres His Daring New Showtime Series 'Untold History of the United States' in New York."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109201136/https://www.indiewire.com/2012/10/oliver-stone-premieres-his-daring-new-showtime-series-untold-history-of-the-united-states-in-new-york-44378/ |date=January 9, 2022 }}, Indiewire, October 8, 2012 San Francisco Chronicle,{{cite news |author=David Wiegand |url=http://www.sfgate.com/tv/article/The-Untold-History-review-Oliver-Stone-4020671.php |title='The Untold History' review: Oliver Stone |publisher=SFGate |date=November 8, 2012 |access-date=December 12, 2012 |archive-date=December 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201030516/http://www.sfgate.com/tv/article/The-Untold-History-review-Oliver-Stone-4020671.php |url-status=live }} and Newsday.{{cite web |url=http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/oliver-stone-s-untold-history-review-1.4206778 |title='Oliver Stone's Untold History' review |date=November 11, 2012 |publisher=Newsday.com |access-date=December 12, 2012 |archive-date=November 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107004338/http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/oliver-stone-s-untold-history-review-1.4206778 |url-status=live }} Hudson Institute adjunct fellow historian Ronald Radosh accused the series of historical revisionism,{{cite web | author=Ronald Radosh | url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/story-told_660176.html?nopager=1 | title=A Story Told Before: Oliver Stone's recycled leftist history of the United States | publisher=The Weekly Standard | date=November 12, 2012 | access-date=November 4, 2012 | author-link=Ronald Radosh | archive-date=November 5, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105183947/http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/story-told_660176.html?nopager=1 | url-status=dead }} while journalist Michael C. Moynihan accused the book of "moral equivalence" and said nothing within the book was "untold" previously.{{cite news | author=Michael C. Moynihan | url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/19/oliver-stone-s-junk-history-of-the-united-states-debunked.html | title=Oliver Stone's Junk History of the United States Debunked | newspaper=The Daily Beast | date=November 19, 2012 | access-date=December 4, 2012 | author-link=Michael C. Moynihan | archive-date=December 4, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121204133825/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/19/oliver-stone-s-junk-history-of-the-united-states-debunked.html | url-status=live }} Stone defended the program's accuracy to TV host Tavis Smiley by saying: "This has been fact checked by corporate fact checkers, by our own fact checkers, and fact checkers [hired] by Showtime. It's been thoroughly vetted ... these are facts, our interpretation may be different than orthodox, but it definitely holds up."{{cite web |url=http://video.pbs.org/video/2301008369/ |title=Video: Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick, Part 1 | Watch Tavis Smiley Online | PBS Video |publisher=Video.pbs.org |date=September 13, 2011 |access-date=December 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107102330/http://video.pbs.org/video/2301008369 |archive-date=January 7, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

Stone was interviewed in Boris Malagurski's documentary film The Weight of Chains 2 (2014), which deals with neoliberal reforms in the Balkans.{{cite web |url=http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Kultura/Sta-je-sokiralo-Karlu-del-Ponte.lt.html |title=Politika.rs |publisher=Politika.rs |date=January 28, 2015 |access-date=September 21, 2016 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924131558/http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Kultura/Sta-je-sokiralo-Karlu-del-Ponte.lt.html |url-status=live }}

On March 5, 2014, Stone and teleSUR premiered the documentary film Mi amigo Hugo (My Friend Hugo), a documentary about Venezuela's late president, Hugo Chávez, one year after his death. The film was described by Stone as a "spiritual answer" and tribute to Chávez.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcwGp0yn9nk | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211029/gcwGp0yn9nk| archive-date=October 29, 2021|title="Mi Amigo Hugo" Trailer |publisher=You Tube |date=February 28, 2014 |access-date=March 5, 2014}}{{cbignore}}

In 2016, Stone was executive producer and interviewer for Ukrainian-born director Igor Lopatonok's film Ukraine on Fire.{{cite web |last=Sanders |first=Lewis |date=22 November 2016 |title=Putin's celebrity circle |url=https://www.dw.com/en/putins-circle-of-celebrities-enable-his-policies/a-36485028 |access-date=29 March 2023 |website=dw.com}} The film was regarded by critics as presenting a "Kremlin-friendly version" of the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Kyiv.{{cite web |last=Kozlov |first=Vladimir |date=23 November 2016 |title=Oliver Stone-Produced Ukraine Doc Causes Stir in Russia, TV Network Ramps up Security Amid Threats |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oliver-stone-produced-ukraine-doc-causes-stir-russia-tv-network-ramps-up-security-threats-95013-950132/ |access-date=29 March 2023 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}} It was also criticized for advancing the Russian narrative about the revolution.{{cite web |last1=(Vlast.kz) |first1=Vyacheslav Abramov |last2=(OCCRP) |first2=Ilya Lozovsky |date=10 October 2022 |title=Oliver Stone Documentary About Kazakhstan's Former Leader Nazarbayev Was Funded by a Nazarbayev Foundation |url=https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/sidebar/oliver-stone-documentary-about-kazakhstans-former-leader-nazarbayev-was-funded-by-a-nazarbayev-foundation |access-date=29 March 2023 |website=OCCRP}}{{Cite web |last=Karatnycky |first=Adrian |date=2024-10-16 |title=The Stubborn Legend of a Western 'Coup' in Ukraine |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/04/ukraine-maidan-revolution-russia-coup-myth-yanukovych/ |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=Foreign Policy |language=en-US}}

Stone filmed a series of interviews with Russian president Vladimir Putin over the span of two years, which was released as The Putin Interviews, a four episode miniseries, on Showtime on June 12, 2017.{{cite news|title=Oliver Stone's Four-Hour Interview With Vladimir Putin to Premiere on Showtime|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/05/01/oliver_stone_s_interview_documentary_with_vladimir_putin_to_premiere_on.html|access-date=May 1, 2017|archive-date=May 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501224356/http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/05/01/oliver_stone_s_interview_documentary_with_vladimir_putin_to_premiere_on.html|url-status=live}} On June 13, Stone and Professor Stephen F. Cohen joined John Batchelor in New York to record an hour of commentary on The Putin Interviews.{{cn|date=March 2023}} In 2019, he released Revealing Ukraine, another film produced by Stone, directed by Lopatonok and featuring Stone interviewing Putin.{{cite web | last=Sharf | first=Zack | title=Oliver Stone Says He's Not Homophobic After Calling Russia's Anti-Gay Law 'Sensible' | website=Yahoo Entertainment | date=26 July 2019 | url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/oliver-stone-says-not-homophobic-151653317.html | access-date=29 March 2023}} During these interviews, Putin made an unproven claim about Georgian snipers being responsible for the February 20 killings of protesters during the Euromaidan demonstrations, a hypothesis Stone himself had earlier supported on Twitter.{{cite web |last1=Echols |first1=William |last2=Yarst |first2=Nik |date=2019-07-15 |title=Vladimir Putin Speaks with Oliver Stone: New Interview – Old False Claims |url=https://www.polygraph.info/a/putin-oliver-stone-film/30052745.html |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=Polygraph.info}}

In June 2021, Stone's documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass was selected to be shown in the Cannes Premiere section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2021/06/2021-cannes-film-festival-lineup-1234641655/ |title=Cannes Film Festival 2021 Lineup: Sean Baker, Wes Anderson, and More Compete for Palme d'Or |work=IndieWire |access-date=June 6, 2021 |archive-date=July 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707202615/https://www.indiewire.com/2021/06/2021-cannes-film-festival-lineup-1234641655/ |url-status=live }} An expanded version of the documentary called JFK: Destiny Betrayed premiered as a television miniseries later that same year.

In 2021, he produced and featured in Qazaq: History of the Golden Man, directed by Lopatonok, a miniseries about Kazakh politician and former leader Nursultan Nazarbayev. The series was criticized for its perceived promotion of the authoritarian rule and positive portrayal of Nazarbayev.{{cite web|title=Oliver Stone derided for film about 'modest' former Kazakh president|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/11/oliver-stone-film-ex-kazakhstan-president-nursultan-nazabayev|date=July 11, 2021|website=The Guardian|archive-date=August 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804081143/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/11/oliver-stone-film-ex-kazakhstan-president-nursultan-nazabayev|url-status=live|access-date=August 18, 2021}}{{cite news|first1=Assel|last1=Aushakimova|access-date=August 18, 2021|title=Oliver Stone's lavish Nazarbayev documentary is just the latest blow to independent Kazakhstani filmmakers|url=https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12958/oliver-stone-qazaq-legend-of-the-golden-man-kazakhstan-nursultan-nazarbayev|website=The Calvert Journal|archive-date=August 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818200502/https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12958/oliver-stone-qazaq-legend-of-the-golden-man-kazakhstan-nursultan-nazarbayev|url-status=live}} and for allegedly receiving $5 million in funding from Nazarbayev's own charitable foundation, Elbasy, via the country's State Center for Support of National Cinema, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Stone and Lopatonok denied any Kazakhstani government involvement.{{cite magazine | last=Blistein | first=Jon | title=You'll Never Guess Where Oliver Stone Allegedly Got $5 Million to Make His Glowing Doc About Kazakhstan's Ex-Authoritarian Ruler | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=12 October 2022 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/oliver-stone-kazakhstan-president-documentary-funding-1234608898/ | access-date=29 March 2023}}{{cite web | last1=(Vlast.kz) | first1=Vyacheslav Abramov | last2=(OCCRP) | first2=Ilya Lozovsky | title=Oliver Stone Documentary About Kazakhstan's Former Leader Nazarbayev Was Funded by a Nazarbayev Foundation | website=OCCRP | date=10 October 2022 | url=https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/sidebar/oliver-stone-documentary-about-kazakhstans-former-leader-nazarbayev-was-funded-by-a-nazarbayev-foundation | access-date=29 March 2023}} According to Rolling Stone, "What little attention Qazaq did receive was largely negative, with critics decrying the film for its glowing depiction of Nazarbayev."

In 2022, Stone directed and co-wrote Nuclear Now, a climate change documentary based on the book A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow written by the US scientists Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist. The movie argues that nuclear energy is needed to fight climate change, as renewables alone will not be sufficient for the planet to obtain carbon neutrality before climate change becomes irreversible. Of the film, Stone stated, "People worry about nuclear waste and meanwhile the whole world is choking on fossil fuel waste. That’s silly. Trillions of dollars have been invested in solar and wind and hydropower. Everything possible is being discussed, except for nuclear... It has to be on the agenda."{{Cite web |last=Dinneen |first=Steve |date=2023-06-22 |title=Oliver Stone on Putin, nuclear power and feeling like an outsider |url=https://www.cityam.com/oliver-stone-on-vladimir-putin-nuclear-power-and-being-an-outsider/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=CityAM |language=en-GB}}

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On September 15, 2008, Stone was named the artistic director of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore.{{cite web |url=http://www.tischasia.nyu.edu.sg/object/TANEWSOliverStone.html |title=Oliver Stone Named Artistic Director |publisher=tischasia.nyu.edu.sg |access-date=June 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817195110/http://www.tischasia.nyu.edu.sg/object/TANEWSOliverStone.html |archive-date=August 17, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

In November 1997, Stone won an episode of the game show Jeopardy! during "Power Players" theme week, playing on behalf of charity Rock the Vote.{{Citation |title=Jeopardy 1997-11-20 Power Players Week |date=1997-11-20 |url=https://archive.org/details/oliver-stone-on-jeopardy-480 |access-date=2025-03-19}} As of 2025, that makes him one of only three Academy Award winners who have also won Jeopardy! Calling it one of the most fun experiences of his career, he later admitted that he was high on ecstasy during the game.{{Cite web |date=2013-08-26 |title=The Oliver Stone Experience {{!}} The Official Oliver Stone website {{!}} www.oliverstone.com |url=http://www.oliverstone.com/jeopardy-on-acid |access-date=2025-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826100700/http://www.oliverstone.com/jeopardy-on-acid |archive-date=August 26, 2013 }}

Stone has contributed forewords or introductions to multiple non-fiction books, including Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK by Mark Lane,{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/lastwordmyindict0000lane|url-access=registration|title=Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK|last=Lane|first=Mark|date=November 2012|publisher=Skyhorse|isbn=9781620870709}}The JFK Assassination,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JGmCDwAAQBAJ&q=James+DiEugenio|title=The JFK Assassination|last=DiEugenio|first=James|date=May 1, 2018|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781510739840|access-date=October 17, 2020|archive-date=January 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109201141/https://books.google.com/books?id=JGmCDwAAQBAJ&q=James+DiEugenio|url-status=live}} A Portrait of Vietnam by Lou Dematteis, Reclaiming Parkland: Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK Assassination in the New Hollywood,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DNaLDAAAQBAJ&q=Di+Eugenio|title=Reclaiming Parkland: Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK Assassination in the New Hollywood|last=DiEugenio|first=James|date=September 20, 2016|publisher=Skyhorse|isbn=9781510707771}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil, JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness and JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pl-bF0P3x_AC&q=L.+Fletcher+Prouty|title=JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy|last=Prouty|first=L. Fletcher|author-link=L. Fletcher Prouty|date=April 2011|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing Inc.|isbn=9781616082918|access-date=October 17, 2020|archive-date=January 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109201151/https://books.google.com/books?id=Pl-bF0P3x_AC&q=L.+Fletcher+Prouty|url-status=live}} which features a quote from Stone on its cover that it "blows the lid right off our 'Official History.{{'"}}{{cite web|url=https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781616082918/jfk|title=JFK|website=Skyhorse Publishing|access-date=February 17, 2019|archive-date=February 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218141838/https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781616082918/jfk/|url-status=live}}

In 2022, he appeared in the documentary Theaters of War, discussing the role of the military in Hollywood.{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/26/top-gun-for-hire-why-hollywood-is-the-us-militarys-best-wingman | title=Top Gun for hire: Why Hollywood is the US military's best wingman | website=TheGuardian.com | date=May 26, 2022 }} Stone was also interviewed in the 2021 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Once Upon a Time in Queens about the 1986 New York Mets.{{Cite news |last=Dodd |first=Rustin |date=2021-09-13 |title='At any minute, the wheels could come off': Q&A with Nick Davis, the director of the new Mets 30-for-30 film |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2817251/2021/09/10/at-any-minute-the-wheels-could-come-off-qa-with-nick-davis-the-director-of-the-new-mets-30-for-30-film/ |access-date=2025-03-19 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

Many of Stone's films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century, and as such were considered contentious at the times of their releases. They often combine different camera and film formats within a single scene, as demonstrated in JFK (1991), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Nixon (1995).{{cite book|author=James Riordan|date=September 1996|title=Stone: A Biography of Oliver Stone|page=377 |publisher=New York: Aurum Press|isbn= 1-85410-444-6}} Roger Ebert called Stone "a filmmaker of feverish energy and limitless technical skills, able to assemble a bewildering array of facts and fancies and compose them into a film without getting bogged down."{{Cite web |title=JFK movie review & film summary (1991) {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-jfk-1991 |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=www.rogerebert.com |language=en-US}} Owen Gleiberman, who named Nixon the best film of 1995, called Stone, "the most exciting filmmaker of his time. You don’t just watch his movies—they get inside you, like drugs. [...] More than any director before him, he has captured the violent free-associative rhythms of a feral, jagged modern mind."{{Cite web |title=Nixon |url=https://ew.com/article/1995/12/22/nixon-3/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=EW.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=1995 The Best & Worst/Movies |url=https://ew.com/article/1995/12/29/1995-best-worstmovies/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=EW.com |language=en}}

According to Quentin Tarantino, "[Stone] wants to make an impact. He wants to punch you in the face with this stuff and when you leave the theater, he wants you to leave with a big idea. [...] To me, Oliver Stone's films are very similar to the kind of films that Stanley Kramer used to make in the '50s and '60s, the big difference being that Stanley Kramer was kind of a clumsy filmmaker and Oliver Stone is cinematically brilliant."{{Cite book |last1=Tarantino |first1=Quentin |title=Quentin Tarantino: interviews |last2=Peary |first2=Gerald |date=1998 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-57806-050-4 |series=Conversations with filmmakers series |location=Jackson}} In a retrospective essay, writer and professor Kiese Laymon argued that Stone constantly subverted portrayals of white saviorism and American masculinity in his filmography.{{Cite book |last=Seitz |first=Matt Zoller |title=The Oliver Stone Experience |publisher=Abrams |year=2016 |isbn=978-1419717901 |pages=17}}

Stone has listed Luis Buñuel, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol as early film-making heroes, as well as fellow combat veteran turned director Samuel Fuller.{{Cite book |last=Seitz |first=Matt Zoller |title=The Oliver Stone Experience |publisher=Abrams |year=2016 |isbn=978-1419717901 |pages=75}} Stone has also cited Greek-French director Costa-Gavras as a primary influence on his work, recalling that he "was certainly one of my earliest role models,...I was a film student at NYU when Z came out, which we studied. Costa actually came over with Yves Montand for a screening and was such a hero to us."{{cite web|last=Major|first=Wade|title=World Class |url=https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/0903-Fall-2009/Profile-Costa-Gavras.aspx |website=DGA |publisher=Directors Guild of America |access-date=15 October 2021 |date=Fall 2009}} In his memoir Chasing the Light, Stone described the profound influence of Elia Kazan's films on his work, as well as the parallels he saw between their life experiences. He also detailed a significant friendship with one of his other idols, Billy Wilder, during the final two decades of Wilder's life.{{Cite book |last=Stone |first=Oliver |title=Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game |publisher=Mariner Books |year=2020 |isbn=978-0358346234 |pages=144, 305–307}}

File:Oliver Stone and his wife in Closing ceremony of the 2018 Fajr International Film Festival 09 (cropped).jpg in Tehran]]

Stone has been married three times, first to Najwa Sarkis Stone, a United Nations protocol attache, on May 22, 1971. They divorced in 1977. He then married Elizabeth Burkit Cox, an assistant in film production, on June 7, 1981.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZSG19XFvwIC&q=%22OLIVER+STONE%22+ELIZABETH&pg=PR8 |title=Oliver Stone: Interviews — Oliver Stone, Charles L. P. Silet — Google Books |access-date=December 12, 2012 |isbn=9781578063031 |last1=Stone |first1=Oliver |year=2001 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |archive-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115171332/https://books.google.com/books?id=AZSG19XFvwIC&q=%22OLIVER+STONE%22+ELIZABETH&pg=PR8 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZ4UuQ5N_SEC&q=%22Elizabeth+Burkit+Cox+an+assistant+in%22+production |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television – Monica M. O'Donnell – Google Books |access-date=December 12, 2012 |isbn=9780810320642 |last1=O'Donnell |first1=Monica M. |year=1984 |archive-date=January 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109201138/https://books.google.com/books?id=rZ4UuQ5N_SEC&q=%22Elizabeth+Burkit+Cox+an+assistant+in%22+production |url-status=live }} They had two sons, Sean (b. 1984, who took the middle name Ali upon conversion to Islam{{Cite web |date=2012-02-15 |title=Oliver Stone's son converts to Islam in Iran |url=https://www.cnn.com/2012/02/15/world/meast/iran-stone-islam/index.html |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=CNN |language=en}}) and Michael Jack (b. 1991). As a child, Sean acted in supporting roles in several of his father's films, and later worked for the Russia state media company RT America as a program host from 2015 to 2022.{{cite news|last=Gray|first=Rosie|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/jesse-venturas-son-and-oliver-stones-get-a-show-at-russia-to|title=Jesse Ventura's Son And Oliver Stone's Son Get A Show At Russia Today|work=BuzzFeed News|date=March 9, 2015|access-date=April 12, 2020|archive-date=April 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412012301/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/jesse-venturas-son-and-oliver-stones-get-a-show-at-russia-to|url-status=live}} Oliver and Elizabeth divorced in 1993. Stone has been married to Sun-jung Jung from South Korea since 1996, and the couple have a daughter, Tara (b. 1995).[http://www.life.com/image/99379737 "63rd Annual Cannes Film Festival – 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' Premiere"]. Life May 14, 2010 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610214007/http://www.life.com/image/99379737 |date=June 10, 2011 }} Stone and Sun-jung live in Los Angeles.(Winter 2017). "In His Words: Director Oliver Stone", Stand, American Civil Liberties Union p. 31. Stone holds dual U.S. and French citizenship.{{Cite web |date=2017-06-12 |title=Oliver Stone on 'The Putin Interview': The Russian President 'Is a Smart, Soft Man' |url=https://observer.com/2017/06/oliver-stone-talks-the-putin-interviews/ |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=Observer |language=en-US}}

Stone has been a practicing Buddhist since 1993.{{Cite web |date=1995-04-15 |title=Oliver Stone Unturned: The Natural Born Killers Director on War, Art, and Religion – MovieMaker Magazine |url=https://www.moviemaker.com/oliver-stone-natural-born-killers/ |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=www.moviemaker.com |language=en-US}} He was given the Dharma name Minh Duc after receiving the five precepts from a Buddhist monk.{{Cite web |last=Tricycle |title=Hell First, Then Heaven and Earth |url=https://tricycle.org/magazine/hell-first-then-heaven-and-earth/ |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=Tricycle: The Buddhist Review |language=en}} Stone is also mentioned in Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Lawrence Wright's book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief as having been a member of Scientology for about a month, saying "It was like going to college and reading Dale Carnegie, something you do to find yourself."{{cite web |url=http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/01/nine-celebrity-morsels-lawrences-wrights-scientology-book/61122/ |title=Nine Celebrity Morsels from Lawrence's Wright's Scientology Book |publisher=Theatlanticwire.com |date=January 17, 2013 |access-date=September 21, 2016 |archive-date=September 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919075209/http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/01/nine-celebrity-morsels-lawrences-wrights-scientology-book/61122/ |url-status=live }} In 1997, Stone was one of 34 celebrities to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested against the treatment of Scientologists in Germany and compared it to the Nazis' oppression of Jews in the 1930s.Drozdiak, William (January 14, 1997). [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/10844567.html?dids=10844567:10844567&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+14%2C+1997&author=William+Drozdiak&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=U.S.+Celebrities+Defend+Scientology+in+Germany&pqatl=google U.S. Celebrities Defend Scientology in Germany] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724145939/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/10844567.html?dids=10844567:10844567&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+14%2C+1997&author=William+Drozdiak&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=U.S.+Celebrities+Defend+Scientology+in+Germany&pqatl=google |date=July 24, 2013 }}, The Washington Post, p. A11 In 2003, Stone was a signatory of the third Humanist Manifesto.{{cite web|url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |title=Notable Signers |publisher=American Humanist Association |work=Humanism and Its Aspirations |access-date=October 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005105825/http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |archive-date=October 5, 2012 }}

Ten days after returning from Vietnam in November 1968, Stone was arrested and jailed in San Diego for attempting to smuggle two ounces of marijuana across the border from Mexico, where he had been partying. The charges were eventually dismissed.{{Cite web |date=2012-09-21 |title=Oliver Stone: 'there’s no way the drug war can end’ |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9544199/Oliver-Stone-theres-no-way-the-drug-war-can-end.html |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}} In 1999, Stone was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of drugs, including fenfluramine, phentermine, meprobamate and a small amount of hashish. He pled guilty to two counts of driving while intoxicated and was ordered into a rehabilitation program.{{Cite news |last=Reed |first=Christopher |date=1999-08-26 |title=Oliver Stone ready for rehab |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/aug/26/4 |access-date=2025-01-01 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} He was arrested again on the night of May 27, 2005, in Los Angeles for possession of marijuana.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/28/stone.arrest/index.html|title=Director Oliver Stone arrested|publisher=CNN News|date=May 28, 2005|access-date=October 15, 2008|archive-date=October 10, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010220223/http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/28/stone.arrest/index.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Director Oliver Stone arrested|date=May 28, 2005|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2005-05-28/entertainment/stone.arrest_1_drug-charges-stone-s-mercedes-director-oliver-stone?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ|work=CNN|access-date=October 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813111131/http://articles.cnn.com/2005-05-28/entertainment/stone.arrest_1_drug-charges-stone-s-mercedes-director-oliver-stone?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ|archive-date=August 13, 2011|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |title=Oliver Stone ends pot case - UPI.com |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2005/08/11/Oliver-Stone-ends-pot-case/18441123808154/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=UPI |language=en}} He was released the next day on a $15,000 bond. In August 2005, Stone pleaded no contest and was fined $100.{{cite news|title=Oliver Stone enters plea in pot charge|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-08-11-stone-plea_x.htm|work=USA Today|date=August 11, 2005|access-date=September 7, 2017|archive-date=January 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109201138/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-08-11-stone-plea_x.htm|url-status=live}}

In 2017, former Playboy model Carrie Stevens alleged that in 1991, Stone had "walked past me and grabbed my boob as he waltzed out the front door of a party."Maane Khatchatourian, [https://variety.com/2017/film/news/oliver-stone-groping-playboy-model-1202589178/ Oliver Stone Accused of Groping Former Playboy Model in '90s] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212193849/http://variety.com/2017/film/news/oliver-stone-groping-playboy-model-1202589178/ |date=December 12, 2017 }}, Variety (October 13, 2017).

The allegation Stevens made surfaced after Stone announced he would no longer direct the Weinstein Company's television series Guantanamo following the revelation of the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations. Stone also drew criticism for his comments on Harvey Weinstein himself, saying:

I'm a believer that you wait until this thing gets to trial. I believe a man shouldn't be condemned by a vigilante system. It's not easy what he's going through, either. During that period he was a rival. I never did business with him and didn't really know him. I've heard horror stories on everyone in the business, so I'm not going to comment on gossip. I'll wait and see, which is the right thing to do.{{cite magazine|first=Patrick|last=Brzeski|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stone-harvey-weinstein-not-easy-what-hes-going-1048425|title=Oliver Stone on Harvey Weinstein: 'It's Not Easy What He's Going Through'|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|date=October 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416102203/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stone-harvey-weinstein-not-easy-what-hes-going-1048425 |archive-date=April 16, 2020 }}

Later that day he withdrew his remarks, saying that he had been unaware of the extent of the allegations due to his travel schedule. "After looking at what has been reported in many publications over the last couple of days, I'm appalled and commend the courage of the women who've stepped forward to report sexual abuse or rape," he said.

Melissa Gilbert accused Stone of "sexual harassment" during an audition for The Doors in 1991. Gilbert alleged that she was told unexpectedly to recite sexually explicit dialogue from the script (as character Pamela Courson), refused and left the audition in tears, calling it humiliating. Stone released a statement denying the accusation. The film's casting director, Risa Bramon Garcia, also denied the story, noting that all actresses and their agents were warned about the explicit dialogue when given the pages prior to the audition, adding, "No actor was forced or expected to do anything that might have been uncomfortable, and most actors embraced the challenge".{{cite news|first=Clarisse |last=Loughrey|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oliver-stone-sexual-harassment-melissa-gilbert-andy-cohen-the-doors-audition-a8066936.html|title= Oliver Stone accused of sexual harassment by Melissa Gilbert|website= The Independent|date=November 21, 2017|access-date= December 29, 2021|archive-date=December 2, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171202052706/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oliver-stone-sexual-harassment-melissa-gilbert-andy-cohen-the-doors-audition-a8066936.html|url-status= live}}{{cite news|last=Cooney|first=Samantha|url=https://time.com/5015204/harvey-weinstein-scandal/|title=Here Are All the Public Figures Who've Been Accused of Sexual Misconduct After Harvey Weinstein|magazine=Time|date=March 27, 2019|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=December 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207030559/http://time.com/5015204/harvey-weinstein-scandal/|url-status=live}}

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Stone has been described as having left-wing political views.{{cite news|last1=Tayler|first1=Jeffrey|title=Oliver Stone's Disgraceful Tribute to Hugo Chávez|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/13/oliver-stones-disgraceful-tribute-to-hugo-chavez/|access-date=June 8, 2017|work=Foreign Policy|date=May 13, 2014|archive-date=June 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614214711/http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/13/oliver-stones-disgraceful-tribute-to-hugo-chavez/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|date=April 4, 2015|title=Oliver Stone gets award at Croatian leftist film festival|url=https://www.khaleejtimes.com/city-times/oliver-stone-gets-award-at-croatian-leftist-film-festival|access-date=September 15, 2024|work=Khaleej Times|agency=Agence France-Presse}}{{cite news|title=Oliver Stone's son in Iran to "prepare" documentary|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-movie-stone-idUSTRE78547R20110906|access-date=June 8, 2017|work=Reuters|date=September 6, 2011|archive-date=March 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325171330/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-movie-stone-idUSTRE78547R20110906|url-status=live}} Per FEC data, he has an extensive history of political donations, almost exclusively to Democratic candidates and PACs.{{Cite web |title=Donor Lookup |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Oliver+Stone |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=OpenSecrets |language=en}} In a December 2024 podcast interview, Stone defined himself as an independent opposed to neoconservatism and a "real liberal" influenced by John Stuart Mill.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/live/ucx_qKl-PpM?si=LRz8ANuFxFHBIneV&t=3960 |title=Russia vs Ukraine, JFK Assassination, Trump vs Deep State w/ Oliver & Sean Stone {{!}} PBD Podcast {{!}} 522 |language=en |access-date=2024-12-20 |via=www.youtube.com}} He has also drawn attention for his opinions on controversial world leaders such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Hugo Chávez and Vladimir Putin.{{cite news|last1=Nazaryan|first1=Alexander|title=Oliver Stone defends Vladimir Putin against Megyn Kelly|url=http://www.newsweek.com/oliver-stone-insults-megyn-kelly-fawns-over-putin-622789|access-date=June 8, 2017|work=Newsweek|date=June 8, 2017|archive-date=June 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608074817/http://www.newsweek.com/oliver-stone-insults-megyn-kelly-fawns-over-putin-622789|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Wilson|first1=Greg|title=Oliver Stone: Hitler and Stalin Weren't So Bad|url=http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/celebrity/Oliver-Stone-Hitler-and-Stalin-Werent-So-Bad-99228899.html?amp=y|access-date=June 8, 2017|work=NBC Chicago|archive-date=June 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615170922/http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/celebrity/Oliver-Stone-Hitler-and-Stalin-Werent-So-Bad-99228899.html?amp=y|url-status=live}} In Showtime's The Putin Interviews, Stone called Joseph Stalin "the most famous villain in history, next to Adolf [Hitler]", who "left a horrible reputation, and stained the [Communist] ideology forever ... it's mixed with blood, and terror."The Putin Interviews, Episode 4. Stone has endorsed the works of author and United States foreign policy critic William Blum, saying that his books should be taught in schools and universities.{{cite web|url = https://therealnews.com/oliver-stone-remembers-anti-imperialist-journalist-william-blum-chronicler-of-cia-crimes|title = Oliver Stone Remembers Anti-Imperialist Journalist William Blum, Chronicler of CIA Crimes|date = December 14, 2018|access-date = November 26, 2020|archive-date = November 29, 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201129123823/https://therealnews.com/oliver-stone-remembers-anti-imperialist-journalist-william-blum-chronicler-of-cia-crimes|url-status = live}}

Stone served as a delegate for Jerry Brown's campaign in the 1992 Democratic Party presidential primaries{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/14/news/democrats-in-new-york-garden-diary-brown-in-gotham-city-the-penguin-returns.html|title=DEMOCRATS IN NEW YORK – GARDEN DIARY; Brown in Gotham City: The 'Penguin' Returns|work=The New York Times|author1=Maureen Dowd|author2=Frank Rich|date=1992-07-14|access-date=2023-02-24}} and spoke at the 1992 Democratic National Convention.{{cite web|title=The 90's raw: Eddie Tape #111 – Democratic convention|url=https://mediaburn.org/video/the-90s-74/|access-date=24 February 2023}} In an interview with Bill Maher, Stone claimed that he met President Bill Clinton at the White House in 1995, but that Clinton kept the visit off the official agenda due to Stone's controversial reputation.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=inE9UY3-jXnRah8Q&t=6016&v=s6mMt6-XsGM&feature=youtu.be |title=Oliver Stone {{!}} Club Random with Bill Maher |date=2023-11-19 |last=Club Random Podcast |access-date=2025-01-12 |via=YouTube}}

Stone has suggested a link between 9/11 and the controversies of the 2000 election: "Does anybody make a connection between the 2000 election and the events of September 11th? ... Look for the thirteenth month!"{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/10/22/oliver-stones-chaos-theory|title=Oliver Stone's Chaos Theory|last=Friend|first=Tad|date=October 15, 2001|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=February 15, 2019|issn=0028-792X|archive-date=February 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216035227/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/10/22/oliver-stones-chaos-theory|url-status=live}} In 2024, Stone reflected that the day the U.S. Supreme Court ended the Florida recount in the 2000 presidential election was "the worst moment, for me, of this century," as he supported Al Gore and believes that George W. Bush was the worst president in U.S. history.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/live/ucx_qKl-PpM?si=J695JwDtQQSFCbUE&t=6699 |title=Russia vs Ukraine, JFK Assassination, Trump vs Deep State w/ Oliver & Sean Stone {{!}} PBD Podcast {{!}} 522 |access-date=2024-12-19 |via=www.youtube.com}}

Stone endorsed Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/03/politics.uselections2004 |title=Hollywood comes out for Kerry |work=The Guardian |last1=Glaister |first1=Dan |last2=Borger |first2=Julian |date=April 3, 2004 |access-date=April 10, 2025}}

According to Entertainment Weekly, Stone voted for Barack Obama as President of the United States in both the 2008 and 2012 elections.{{cite web|last=Schou|first=Solvej|title=Oliver Stone on Obama: 'I hope he wins'|url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/11/06/oliver-stone-obama-presidential-election/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly Inc.|access-date=February 26, 2013|archive-date=May 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515070100/http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/11/06/oliver-stone-obama-presidential-election/|url-status=live}} Stone was quoted as saying at the time: "I voted for Obama because...I think he's an intelligent individual. I think he responds to difficulties well...very bright guy...far better choice, yes."{{cite web|title=Oliver Stone on Voting For Obama|url=http://on.aol.com/video/oliver-stone-on-voting-for-obama-517521814|access-date=February 26, 2013|archive-date=November 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101071347/http://on.aol.com/video/oliver-stone-on-voting-for-obama-517521814|url-status=live}} In 2012, Stone endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination for president, citing his support for a non-interventionist foreign policy. He said that Paul is "the only one of anybody who's saying anything intelligent about the future of the world."{{cite news|title=Director Oliver Stone on History. And America, Jim Morrison & Ron Paul|url=http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2012/01/12/director-oliver-stone-on-history-and-america-jim-morrison-ron-paul/|work=Rock Cellar Magazine|date=January 2012|access-date=January 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129022343/http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2012/01/12/director-oliver-stone-on-history-and-america-jim-morrison-ron-paul/|archive-date=January 29, 2012|url-status=dead}} He later added: "I supported Ron Paul in the Republican primary...but his domestic policy...made no sense!" In March 2016, Stone wrote on The Huffington Post indicating his support for Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic nomination.{{cite web|url=http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/why-im-for-bernie-sanders_b_9576984.html|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20160415081328/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/oliver%2Dstone/why%2Dim%2Dfor%2Dbernie%2Dsanders_b_9576984.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 15, 2016|title=Why I'm For Bernie Sanders|publisher=Huffington Post.com|author=Oliver Stone|access-date=May 29, 2016}} In September 2016, Stone said he was voting for Green Party candidate Jill Stein for president.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/09/oliver-stone-snowden/|title=Oliver Stone Talks Secrets, Spies, and Snowden|magazine=Wired.com|author=Michael Hainey|date=September 12, 2016|access-date=September 14, 2016|archive-date=September 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913233939/https://www.wired.com/2016/09/oliver-stone-snowden/|url-status=live}} He added that, as a progressive leftist, he felt forced to vote third party, as he believed neoconservatives like Hillary Clinton had taken over the Democratic Party.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=rQU47MPDK0ooBm0y&t=70&v=Dx2ltXO76Fo&feature=youtu.be |title='Trump Was Slapped in the Face' Tucker Chats With Oliver Stone About 'The Puti |date=2017-06-19 |last=USA News Online |access-date=2024-12-21 |via=YouTube}}

Speaking at the San Sebastián film festival, Stone said that many Americans had become disillusioned with Barack Obama's policies, having originally thought he would be "a man of great integrity." He said: "On the contrary, Obama has doubled down on the (George W.) Bush administration policies," and "has created...the most massive global security surveillance state that's ever been seen, way beyond East Germany's Stasi"."[https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-era-surveillance-worse-stasi-says-oliver-stone-143717554.html Obama-era surveillance worse than Stasi, says Oliver Stone] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812220538/https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-era-surveillance-worse-stasi-says-oliver-stone-143717554.html |date=August 12, 2017 }}". Yahoo News. September 22, 2016.

In April 2018, Stone attended a press conference at the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, where he likened Donald Trump to "Beelzebub", the biblical demonic figure."[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stone-compares-donald-trump-beelzebub-at-iranian-film-festival-1105661 Oliver Stone Compares Trump to "Beelzebub" at Iranian Film Festival] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701083111/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stone-compares-donald-trump-beelzebub-at-iranian-film-festival-1105661|date=July 1, 2018}}". The Hollywood Reporter. April 25, 2018. Although Stone voted for Joe Biden in 2020, he criticized what he perceived to be the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party; Stone argued that the Democrats were not as concerned about Russian interference as they had been in 2016 when Trump won.{{cite tweet |last=Stone |first=Oliver |author-link=Oliver Stone |user=TheOliverStone |number=1327306693357821958 |date=November 13, 2020 |title=(1/3) Although I voted for @JoeBiden, I can't help but note that the #Democrats haven't cried foul over this weird election counting that we're going through. What happened – no #Russian interference this time? https://t.co/mIDHpA6ZrF |language=en |access-date=December 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314105519/https://twitter.com/TheOliverStone/status/1327306693357821958 |archive-date=March 14, 2022 |url-status=live}} He reflected, "I sense the neoconservatives are jumping around Washington, getting their ammunition ready because they know this man, in the end, will come over to their bidding."{{cite tweet |last=Stone |first=Oliver |author-link=Oliver Stone |user=TheOliverStone |number=1327306696734224384 |date=November 13, 2020 |title=(3/3) It would be a disaster for @JoeBiden to seek out another hotspot right away – Syria? – but who really knows? I sense the #neocons are jumping around #Washington, getting their ammunition ready because they know this man, in the end, will come over to their bidding. |language=en |access-date=December 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314105432/https://twitter.com/TheOliverStone/status/1327306696734224384 |archive-date=March 14, 2022 |url-status=live}} On his social media, Stone detailed eleven reasons why he could never vote for Trump, including his policies on Israel, Cuba and Venezuela, the assassination of Qasem Soleimani and his pardons of three court-martialed U.S. military officers who were accused or convicted of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.{{Cite tweet |number=1350122453503275009 |user=TheOliverStone |title=#Trump's dangerous foreign legacy. |first=Oliver |last=Stone |date=Jan 15, 2021 |access-date=Jan 10, 2025}} He additionally cited Trump's stances on climate change and immigration.{{Cite tweet |number=1319320398027259904 |user=TheOliverStone |title=Dropped off my ballot yesterday. Couldn't #vote Third Party this time. @realDonaldTrump has had 4 years, and all I see is more chaos and uncertainty. There are 3 fundamental reasons I can't vote for him |first=Oliver |last=Stone |date=Oct 22, 2020 |access-date=Jan 10, 2025}}

On November 22, 2021, Stone penned an op-ed on The Hollywood Reporter, criticizing both Donald Trump and Joe Biden for not declassifying all records on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.{{cite news |last1=Stone |first1=Oliver |title=Guest Column: Oliver Stone Calls Out President for Not Yet Declassifying All JFK Assassination Records |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/oliver-stone-biden-trump-jfk-assassination-records-column-1235045794/ |access-date=November 28, 2021 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=November 22, 2021 |archive-date=November 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128185245/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/oliver-stone-biden-trump-jfk-assassination-records-column-1235045794/ |url-status=live }} In July 2023, during an interview with Russell Brand, Stone stated that he regretted voting for Biden, because he feared that Biden could start World War III over the Russo-Ukrainian war.{{Cite web |last=Hall |first=Alexander |date=July 29, 2023 |title=Director Oliver Stone Declares He 'Made a Mistake' When He Voted for Biden, Says He May Start 'World War 3' |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/director-oliver-stone-declares-made-mistake-voted-biden-says-start-world-war-3 |access-date=July 29, 2023 |website=Fox News}} Also in 2023, Stone donated to personal friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-14 |title=RFK Jr. Raised $8.7 Million With Hollywood, Republican Donors for 202… |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-13/rfk-jr-raised-8-7-million-with-hollywood-republican-donors-for-2024-run#selection-4973.69-4973.127 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231014000806/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-13/rfk-jr-raised-8-7-million-with-hollywood-republican-donors-for-2024-run#selection-4973.69-4973.127 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2023-10-14 |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=archive.is}} In the 2024 general presidential election, Stone again voted for Kennedy who, after failing to secure the Democratic nomination, appeared on the ballot as the American Independent Party candidate.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNU5el1353I&t=1s |title=Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick: War Profiteering, Nuclear Tech, NATO v. Russia, & War With Iran |date=2025-01-10 |last=Tucker Carlson |access-date=2025-01-11 |via=YouTube}}

In response to Donald Trump's 2025 executive order to release the final three percent of the investigative files related to the John F. Kennedy assassination, Stone wrote that Trump "deserves praise," especially for also "ordering the release of still classified files on the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations." However, Stone noted that the files should have been originally released in October of 2017, and cautioned that he supported the oversight committee proposed by Congressmen Steve Cohen, David Schweikert and Tim Burchett.{{Cite web |last=Hibberd |first=James |date=2025-01-25 |title=Oliver Stone Reacts to Trump's Decision to Release JFK Assassination Files |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oliver-stone-trump-jfk-assassination-files-1236117862/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} On April 1, 2025, Stone testified before a House Oversight subcommittee on federal compliance with the JFK Records Act, having previously testified in April 1992 to support the legislation, which was inspired by his film JFK.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-31 |title=No April Fools' joke: first task force hearing Tuesday on new JFK files |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/03/31/no-april-fools-joke-first-task-force-hearing-tuesday-on-new-jfk-files/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Dallas News |language=en}} In his statement to the committee, he urged Congress "in good faith, outside all political considerations," to re-open the investigation of Kennedy's assassination.{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Ted |date=2025-04-01 |title=Oliver Stone Calls For Congress To Reopen Investigation Into John F. Kennedy's Assassination |url=https://deadline.com/2025/04/oliver-stone-jfk-assassination-congress-1236356419/ |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

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In a January 2010 press conference announcing his documentary series on the history of the United States, Stone said, "Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it's been used cheaply. He's the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect." Just before commenting about Hitler, he mentioned Stalin: "We can't judge people as only 'bad' or 'good.{{'"}}{{cite news|last=Hibberd|first=James|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-stone/oliver-stone-says-hitler-an-easy-scapegoat-idUSTRE60A0Z020100111|title=Oliver Stone says Hitler an 'easy scapegoat'|work=Reuters|agency=The Hollywood Reporter|date=January 11, 2010|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805212243/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-stone/oliver-stone-says-hitler-an-easy-scapegoat-idUSTRE60A0Z020100111|url-status=live}} In response to Stone's comment about his intention to place Hitler "in context," Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said it "is like placing cancer in context, instead of recognizing cancer for what it really is—a horrible disease."{{cite news|url=http://www.wiesenthal.com/about/news/wiesenthal-center-blasts-11.html|title=Wiesenthal Center Blasts Oliver Stone's 'Hitler Was A Scapegoat' Remarks|work=Simon Wiesenthal Center|date=January 15, 2010|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805135709/http://www.wiesenthal.com/about/news/wiesenthal-center-blasts-11.html|url-status=live}}

Interviewed by The Sunday Times on July 25, 2010, Stone was further quoted: "Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]." He objected to what he termed "the Jewish domination of the media," appearing to be critical of the coverage of the Holocaust by adding: "There's a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has fucked up United States foreign policy for years."{{cite news|last=Long|first=Camilla|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/oliver-stone-lobbing-grenades-in-all-directions-pptgs7pg872|title=Oliver Stone: Lobbing grenades in all directions|work=The Sunday Times|location=London|date=July 25, 2010|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=September 14, 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190914205020/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oliver-stone-lobbing-grenades-in-all-directions-pptgs7pg872|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/1.5152427|title=Oliver Stone: Jewish Control of the Media Is Preventing Free Holocaust Debate|work=Haaretz|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=May 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504061539/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/1.5152427|url-status=live}} The remarks were criticized by Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Committee, which compared his comments negatively to those of Mel Gibson.{{cite news|last=Barnes|first=Brooks|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/movies/27arts-OLIVERSTONEC_BRF.html|title=Oliver Stone Controversy|work=The New York Times|date=July 26, 2010|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=November 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112004812/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/movies/27arts-OLIVERSTONEC_BRF.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=2818289&ct=8540509¬oc=1|title=AJC: 'Oliver Stone has Outed Himself as an Anti-Semite'|work=American Jewish Committee|date=July 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729182222/http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=2818289&ct=8540509¬oc=1|archive-date=July 29, 2010}} Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said, "Oliver Stone has once again shown his conspiratorial colors with his comments about 'Jewish domination of the media' and control over U.S. foreign policy. His words conjure up some of the most stereotypical and conspiratorial notions of undue Jewish power and influence."{{cite news|last=Szalai|first=Georg|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stone-slammed-anti-semitism-25928|title=Oliver Stone Slammed for Anti-Semitism|work=The Hollywood Reporter|agency=Associated Press|date=July 26, 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190914212058/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oliver-stone-slammed-anti-semitism-25928|archive-date=September 14, 2019}}

Yuli Edelstein, the speaker of Israel's Knesset and the leading Soviet refusenik, described Stone's remarks as what "could be a sequel to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion",Hoffman, Gil Stern. [https://archive.today/20190914210449/https://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Entertainment/Israel-slams-Oliver-Stones-interview "Israel Slams Oliver Stone's Interview"]. Archived from [http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=182659 the original] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729135112/http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=182659 |date=July 29, 2010 }}. The Jerusalem Post, July 26, 2010. as well as from Israel's Diaspora Affairs and Public Diplomacy Minister.

A day later, Stone stated:

In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity—and it was an atrocity.[https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/07/26/oliver-stone-sorry-about-holocaust-comments "Oliver Stone 'Sorry' About Holocaust Comments"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126105018/http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/07/26/oliver-stone-sorry-about-holocaust-comments/ |date=November 26, 2016 }}. The Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2010.

Two days later, Stone issued a second apology to the ADL, which was accepted. "I believe he now understands the issues and where he was wrong, and this puts an end to the matter," Foxman said.Szalai, Georg. [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i7deb554f2e0e8b2f2fc5625de5900b25 "Oliver Stone, ADL Settle Their Differences"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100831041812/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i7deb554f2e0e8b2f2fc5625de5900b25 |date=August 31, 2010 }} The Hollywood Reporter, October 14, 2010.

Oliver Stone is a vocal supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Stone signed a petition in support of Assange's bid for political asylum in June 2012.{{cite news|title=Moore, Glover, Stone, Maher, Greenwald, Wolf, Ellsberg Urge Correa to Grant Asylum to Assange|date=June 22, 2012|url=http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/1257|work=Just Foreign Policy|access-date=April 14, 2013|archive-date=April 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407033520/http://justforeignpolicy.org/node/1257|url-status=live}} In August 2012, he penned a New York Times op-ed with filmmaker Michael Moore on the importance of WikiLeaks and free speech.{{cite news|title=WikiLeaks and Free Speech|date=August 20, 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/opinion/wikileaks-and-the-global-future-of-free-speech.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 14, 2013|archive-date=May 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511234209/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/opinion/wikileaks-and-the-global-future-of-free-speech.html|url-status=live}} Stone visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in April 2013 and commented, "I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support." He also criticized the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks and the film The Fifth Estate, saying "Julian Assange did much for free speech and is now being victimised by the abusers of that concept".{{cite news|title=Oliver Stone meets Julian Assange and criticises new WikiLeaks films|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/11/oliver-stone-julian-assange-wikileaks|work=The Guardian|date=April 11, 2013|location=London|first=Ben|last=Child|access-date=December 12, 2016|archive-date=December 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228035054/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/11/oliver-stone-julian-assange-wikileaks|url-status=live}}

In June 2013, Stone and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for Chelsea Manning.[http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/celebrity-bradley-manning-video-93041.html#ixzz2WgfpNmys Celeb video: 'I am Bradley Manning' – Patrick Gavin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110180932/http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/celebrity-bradley-manning-video-93041.html#ixzz2WgfpNmys |date=January 10, 2014 }}. Politico.Com (June 20, 2013). Retrieved on May 22, 2014.{{cite AV media |date=June 19, 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFFkcCh-pCc |title=I am Bradley Manning (full HD) |publisher=I am Bradley Manning |via=YouTube |access-date=December 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124130655/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFFkcCh-pCc |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |url-status=live}}

Stone called Saudi Arabia a major destabilizer in the Middle East. He also criticized the foreign policy of the United States, saying: "We made a mess out of Iraq, Syria, Libya, but it doesn't matter to the American public. It's okay to wreck the Middle East." Stone has also been critical of Israel's foreign policy, particularly during the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he has interviewed. In March 2002, Stone was filming a documentary in the West Bank when Operation Defensive Shield was launched.{{Cite news |date=2002-03-26 |title=Stone puts Arafat in spotlight |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1894152.stm |access-date=2025-03-15 |language=en-GB}} He and his crew were forced to flee Ramallah with assistance from the Representative Office of Canada to the Palestinian Authority.{{Cite web |date=2023-07-14 |title=Oliver Stone comes to Jerusalem to discuss nuclear power |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-749971 |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en}}

Stone has had an interest in Latin America since the 1980s, when he directed Salvador, and later returned to make his documentary South of the Border about the left-leaning movements that had been taking hold in the region. He has expressed the view that these movements are a positive step toward political and economic autonomy for the region.{{cite news |author=Ann Hornaday |date=June 23, 2010 |title=Director Stone leaves no passion unstoked, and Silverdocs film is no exception |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/22/AR2010062204929.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610201247/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/22/AR2010062204929.html |archive-date=June 10, 2015}} He supported Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and admired the Colombian militant group FARC.{{Cite book |last1=Schoen |first1=Douglas |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781416594772 |title=The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America |last2=Rowan |first2=Michael |year=2009 |isbn=9781416594772 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781416594772/page/198 198] |publisher=Free Press |quote=Oliver Stone, perhaps the most left-wing and certainly the most anti-establishment figure in Hollywood, is Chávez's natural ally. ... Stone openly admires the FARC ... |url-access=registration}} Stone skipped the 68th Academy Awards ceremony, where his film Nixon received three nominations, to visit the Zapatistas of southern Mexico. Joking that he had no Oscar statuettes to give, guerrilla leader Subcomandante Marcos presented Stone with a tobacco pipe instead.{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=1996-03-28 |title=MOVIES – March 28, 1996 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-28-ca-51986-story.html |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

Stone has also criticized the U.S.-supported Operation Condor, a state terror operation that carried out assassinations and disappearances in support of South America's right-wing dictatorships in Argentina (see Dirty War), Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay."[https://books.google.com/books?id=hZlFAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA378 The Untold History of the United States]". Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick (2013). p.378. {{ISBN|1451613520}}

In the early 1980's, Stone visited the Soviet Union for the first time to interview anti-Communist dissidents as research for a screenplay. He also used the trip to covertly smuggle Western goods into the USSR on behalf of a French human rights organization. His activities eventually drew the attention of Soviet authorities and he was briefly detained in Tbilisi, Georgia before being allowed to leave the country. The resulting screenplay, Defiance, was never made.{{Cite book |last=Riordan |first=James |title=Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, And Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker |publisher=Hyperion |year=1995 |isbn=0-7868-6026-X |pages=129–130}}

In December 2014, Stone made statements supporting the Russian government's narrative on Ukraine, portraying the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity as a CIA plot. He also rejects the claim that former Ukrainian president (who was overthrown as a result of that revolution) Viktor Yanukovych was responsible for the killing of protesters as claimed by the succeeding Ukrainian government. Stone said Yanukovych was the legitimate president who was forced to leave Ukraine by "well-armed, neo-Nazi radicals". He said that in "the tragic aftermath of this coup, the West has maintained the dominant narrative of 'Russia in Crimea' whereas the true narrative is 'USA in Ukraine'".{{cite news |url= http://mashable.com/2014/12/30/oliver-stone-ukraine-viktor-yanukovych/ |title= Oliver Stone says CIA was behind Ukraine revolution in bizarre Facebook rant |first= Christopher |last= Miller |work= Mashable |date= December 30, 2014 |access-date= December 31, 2014 |archive-date= December 31, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141231141933/http://mashable.com/2014/12/30/oliver-stone-ukraine-viktor-yanukovych/ |url-status= live }}{{cite news |url= http://www.newsweek.com/oliver-stone-meets-toppled-ukrainian-president-accuses-cia-sparking-coup-295814 |title= Oliver Stone Meets Toppled Ukrainian President Yanukovych, Accuses CIA of Sparking Coup |publisher= Newsweek |access-date= December 31, 2014 |archive-date= December 31, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141231171119/http://www.newsweek.com/oliver-stone-meets-toppled-ukrainian-president-accuses-cia-sparking-coup-295814 |url-status= live }}{{cite news |url= http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-31/oliver-stone-patron-saint-of-truthiness |title= Oliver Stone, Patron Saint of Truthiness |work= Bloomberg View |access-date= December 31, 2014 |archive-date= January 1, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150101121258/http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-31/oliver-stone-patron-saint-of-truthiness |url-status= live }}{{cite news |url= http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/oliver-stone-interviews-yanukovych-for-documentary-on-u-s-coup-in-ukraine/514013.html |title= Oliver Stone Interviews Yanukovych for Documentary on U.S. 'Coup' in Ukraine |work= The Moscow Times |access-date= December 31, 2014 |archive-date= January 1, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150101013309/http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/oliver-stone-interviews-yanukovych-for-documentary-on-u-s-coup-in-ukraine/514013.html |url-status= live }}{{cite news |url= http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oliver-stone-ukraines-revolution-was-cia-plot-1481412 |title= Oliver Stone: Ukraine's revolution was CIA 'plot' |work= International Business Times |access-date= December 31, 2014 |archive-date= January 5, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150105141424/http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oliver-stone-ukraines-revolution-was-cia-plot-1481412 |url-status= live }}{{cite news |url= http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2015/january/01/oliver-stone-cia-fingerprints-all-over-ukraine-coup |title= CIA Fingerprints All Over Ukraine Coup |publisher= Ron Paul institute |access-date= January 5, 2015 |archive-date= January 5, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150105141800/http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2015/january/01/oliver-stone-cia-fingerprints-all-over-ukraine-coup |url-status= live }} James Kirchick of The Daily Beast criticized Stone's comments.{{cite news |url= https://krytyka.com/en/community/blogs/open-letter-oliver-stone |title= Stephen Velychenko: An open letter to Oliver Stone |first= Stephen |last= Velychenko |publisher= Krytyka |date= January 1, 2015 |access-date= April 10, 2018 |archive-date= April 10, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180410135022/https://krytyka.com/en/community/blogs/open-letter-oliver-stone |url-status= live }}{{cite news |url= http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/05/oliver-stone-s-latest-dictator-suckup.html |title= Oliver Stone's Latest Dictator Suckup |first= James |last= Kirchick |work= The Daily Beast |date= January 5, 2015 |access-date= January 5, 2015 |archive-date= January 5, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150105170657/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/05/oliver-stone-s-latest-dictator-suckup.html |url-status= live }} After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Stone wrote, "Although the United States has many wars of aggression on its conscience, it doesn’t justify Mr. Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. A dozen wrongs don’t make a right. Russia was wrong to invade," an opinion he reiterated in March 2025.{{Cite web |last=Tapp |first=Tom |date=2022-03-07 |title=Oliver Stone Criticizes "Mr. Putin's Aggression In Ukraine" After Previously Saying There Was "No Proof" Russia Intended To Invade |url=https://deadline.com/2022/03/oliver-stone-criticizes-putin-ukraine-1234973037/ |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}} However, he continued to blame the source of the conflict on the U.S. and NATO, emphasizing his fear of a potential nuclear war and accusing the U.S. of seeking to dominate the world.[https://twitter.com/theoliverstone/status/1521203717453852672][https://twitter.com/theoliverstone/status/1587807087995895808]

In a June 2017 interview with The Nation to promote his documentary on Vladimir Putin, Stone rejected the narrative of the United States' intelligence agencies that Russia sought to influence the 2016 presidential election. Stone accused the CIA, FBI, and NSA of cooking the intelligence. He said: "The influence on the election from the Russians to me is absurd to the naked eye. Israel has far more influence on American elections through AIPAC. Saudi Arabia has influence through money... Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers have much more influence on American elections... And the prime minister of Israel comes to our country and addresses Congress to criticize the president's policy in Iran at the time—that's pretty outrageous."{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/oliver-stone-talks-to-the-nation-about-his-new-documentary-the-putin-interviews/|title=Oliver Stone Talks to 'The Nation' About His New Documentary 'The Putin Interviews'|last=Rampell|first=Ed|journal=The Nation|date=June 12, 2017|access-date=February 15, 2019|issn=0027-8378|archive-date=February 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216035545/https://www.thenation.com/article/oliver-stone-talks-to-the-nation-about-his-new-documentary-the-putin-interviews/|url-status=live}}

Russia passed a law in 2013 banning "gay propaganda" to minors, which has been criticized as being used for a crackdown on LGBTQ support.{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hayesbrown/oliver-stone-russia-lgbt-propaganda-law-putin|title=Oliver Stone Said Russia's "Anti-Gay Propaganda" Law Seems "Sensible"|last=Brown|first=Hayes|date=July 22, 2019|website=Buzzfeed News|access-date=July 23, 2019|archive-date=July 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722201805/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hayesbrown/oliver-stone-russia-lgbt-propaganda-law-putin|url-status=live}} In a 2019 interview with Putin, Stone said of the law that "It seems like maybe that's a sensible law." Stone later said he is not homophobic.{{cite news |title=Oliver Stone Says He's Not Homophobic After Calling Russia's Anti-Gay Law 'Sensible' |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/07/oliver-stone-homophobic-russia-gay-propaganda-law-1202160471/ |work=IndieWire |date=July 26, 2019 |access-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028100924/https://www.indiewire.com/2019/07/oliver-stone-homophobic-russia-gay-propaganda-law-1202160471/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/oliver-stone-putin-russia-gay-propaganda-law-lgbt-godfather-daughter-a9016566.html|title=Oliver Stone defends Russia's 'anti-gay propaganda' law and asks Putin to be daughter's godfather|last=White|first=Adam|date=July 23, 2019|website=The Independent|access-date=July 23, 2019|archive-date=July 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723184128/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/oliver-stone-putin-russia-gay-propaganda-law-lgbt-godfather-daughter-a9016566.html|url-status=live}}

Stone took the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for the COVID-19 virus while filming in Russia and the Pfizer vaccine upon his return to the return to the United States, calling himself "a pin cushion for American-Russian peace relations."{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/oliver-stone-vaccine-coronavirus-sputnik-v-b1774166.html | title=Oliver Stone receives Russian coronavirus vaccine aged 74 | website=Independent.co.uk | date=December 15, 2020 }}{{Cite news |last=Macnab |first=Geoffrey |date=July 15, 2021 |title=Oliver Stone: 'There's still a presence out there reminding people not to speak about JFK's killing' |url=https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/features/oliver-stone-interview-jfk-documentary-b1882614.html |access-date=Jan 12, 2025 |work=The Independent}}

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! Year

! Title

!width=65| Director

!width=65| Writer

!width=65| Producer

! Notes

|-

| 1974

| Seizure

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Directorial debut
Co-written with Edward Mann

|-

| 1978

| Midnight Express

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Adapted from Billy Hayes' 1977 memoir of the same name

|-

| 1981

| The Hand

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

|

|-

| 1982

| Conan the Barbarian

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with John Milius

|-

| 1983

| Scarface

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Adapted from the 1932 film of the same name written by W.R. Burnett, Ben Hecht, John Lee Mahin, and Seton I. Miller

|-

| 1985

| Year of the Dragon

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with Michael Cimino

|-

|rowspan=3|1986

| Salvador

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| Co-written with Richard Boyle

|-

| 8 Million Ways to Die

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with Robert Towne and R. Lance Hill; Adapted from Lawrence Block's book of the same name

|-

| Platoon

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

|

|-

| 1987

| Wall Street

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with Stanley Weiser

|-

| 1988

| Talk Radio

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with Eric Bogosian; Adapted from Bogosian and Tad Savinar's play of the same name

|-

| 1989

| Born on the Fourth of July

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| Co-written with Ron Kovic; Adapted from Kovic's 1976 autobiography of the same name

|-

| rowspan="2" |1991

| The Doors

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with Randall Jahnson
Also soundtrack album director

|-

| JFK

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| Co-written with Zachary Sklar
Also soundtrack album director

|-

| 1993

| Heaven & Earth

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| Also soundtrack album director

|-

| 1994

| Natural Born Killers

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Partial|Executive}}

| Co-written with David Veloz and Richard Rutowski; Story by Quentin Tarantino
Also soundtrack album director

|-

| 1995

| Nixon

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| Co-written with Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele

|-

| 1996

| Evita

| {{No}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with Alan Parker; Adapted from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1976 concept album and 1978 musical of the same name

|-

| 1997

| U Turn

| {{Yes}}

| {{Partial|Uncredited}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with John Ridley; Adapted from Ridley's 1997 novel of the same name

|-

| 1999

| Any Given Sunday

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Partial|Executive}}

| Co-written with John Logan; Story by Logan and Daniel Pyne

|-

| 2004

| Alexander

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with Christopher Kyle and Laeta Kalogridis

|-

| 2006

| World Trade Center

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

|

|-

| 2008

| W.

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

|

|-

| 2010

| Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{Partial|Uncredited}}

|

|-

| 2012

| Savages

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with Don Winslow and Shane Salerno; Adapted from Winslow's 2010 novel of the same name

|-

| 2016

| Snowden

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| Co-written with Kieran Fitzgerald; Adapted from Luke Harding's The Snowden Files and Anatoly Kucherena's Time of the Octopus

|-

|}

{| style="width:100%;"

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

| style="width:30%;"|

Executive producer

• Zebrahead (1992)
• South Central (1992)
• The Joy Luck Club (1993)
• The New Age (1994)
• Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
• Freeway (1996)
• The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
• Cold Around the Heart (1997)
• The Corruptor (1999)

| style="width:70%;"|

Producer only

• Blue Steel (1990)
• Reversal of Fortune (1990)
• Savior (1998)

| style="width:50%;"|

|}

Other credits

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! Year

! Title

! Role

|-

| 1973

| Sugar Cookies

| Associate producer

|-

| 1996

| Gravesend

| Presenter

|-

|}

Executive producer

• Wild Palms (1993)
• Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995) (TV movie)
• The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001) (TV movie)

Film

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! Year

! Title

!width=65| Director

!width=65| Writer

!width=65| Executive
Producer

! Notes

|-

| 1998

| The Last Days of Kennedy and King

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

|

|-

| 2003

| Comandante

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{no}}

| Also narrator

|-

| 2009

| South of the Border

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

| 2012

| Castro in Winter

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

| 2014

| Mi amigo Hugo

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

| 2015

| A Good American

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

|

|-

|rowspan=2|2016

| Ukraine on Fire

| {{no}}

| {{No}}

| {{yes}}

|

|-

| All Governments Lie

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{yes}}

|

|-

| 2019

| Revealing Ukraine

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

|

|-

|rowspan=2|2021

| JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

|

|-

| Qazaq: History of the Golden Man

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| {{yes}}

|

|-

| 2022

| Nuclear Now

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

| 2024

| Lula

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|

|-

|}

TV series

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! Year

! Title

!width=65| Director

!width=65| Writer

!width=65| Producer

! Notes

|-

| 2003–2004

| America Undercover

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| Episodes Looking for Fidel and Persona Non Grata

|-

| 2012–2013

| The Untold History of the United States

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Partial|Executive}}

|

|-

| 2017

| The Putin Interviews

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}

|

|-

| 2021

| JFK: Destiny Betrayed

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|

|}

{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Oliver Stone}}

{| class="wikitable"

|+ As director

|-

! rowspan="2" | Year

! rowspan="2" | Title

! colspan="2" | Academy Awards

! colspan="2" | BAFTA Awards

! colspan="2" | Golden Globe Awards

! colspan="2" | Golden Raspberry Awards

|-

! Nominations

! Wins

! Nominations

! Wins

! Nominations

! Wins

! Nominations

! Wins

|-

|rowspan=2| 1986

| Salvador

| style="text-align:center;"|2

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|-

| Platoon

| style="text-align:center;"|8

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|3

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|3

|

|

|-

| 1987

| Wall Street

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|1

|

|

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|1

|-

| 1989

| Born on the Fourth of July

| style="text-align:center;"|8

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|2

|

| style="text-align:center;"|5

| style="text-align:center;"|4

|

|

|-

| 1991

| JFK

| style="text-align:center;"|8

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|1

|

|

|-

| 1993

| Heaven & Earth

|

|

|

|

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|1

|

|

|-

| 1994

| Natural Born Killers

|

|

|

|

| style="text-align:center;"|1

|

|

|

|-

| 1995

| Nixon

| style="text-align:center;"|4

|

| style="text-align:center;"|1

|

| style="text-align:center;"|1

|

|

|

|-

| 1997

| U Turn

|

|

|

|

|

|

| style="text-align:center;"|2

|

|-

| 2004

| Alexander

|

|

|

|

|

|

| style="text-align:center;"|6

|

|-

| 2010

| Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

|

|

|

|

| style="text-align:center;"|1

|

|

|

|-

| 2016

| Snowden

|

|

|

|

|

|

| style="text-align:center;"|1

|

|-

! colspan="2" |Total

!31

!9

!10

!4

!18

!10

!10

!1

|}

Directed Academy Award performances

Under Stone's direction, these actors have received Academy Award nominations (and wins) for their performances in their respective roles.

{| class="wikitable"

!Year

!Performer

!Film

!Result

|-

| colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|Academy Award for Best Actor

|-

|1987

|James Woods

|Salvador

|{{nom}}

|-

|1988

|Michael Douglas

|Wall Street

|{{won}}

|-

|1990

|Tom Cruise

|Born on the Fourth of July

|{{nom}}

|-

|1996

|Anthony Hopkins

|Nixon

|{{nom}}

|-

| colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

|-

|rowspan="2"|1987

|Tom Berenger

|rowspan="2"|Platoon

|{{nom}}

|-

|Willem Dafoe

|{{nom}}

|-

|1992

|Tommy Lee Jones

|JFK

|{{nom}}

|-

| colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

|-

|1996

|Joan Allen

|Nixon

|{{nom}}

|-

|}

Honors

• 70px Commander of the Order of Intellectual Merit (Morocco, 2003){{cite web|url=https://lematin.ma/journal/2003/S-A-R--le-Prince-Moulay-Rachid-decore-plusieurs-personnalites-du-7e-Art/33503.html

|title=S.A.R. le Prince Moulay Rachid décore plusieurs personnalités du 7e Art|date=October 5, 2003}}

• 2007: Lifetime Achievement Award of Zurich Film Festival
• On July 4, 2024, Stone was awarded the rank of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, the highest civilian honor in France, for cultural contributions to both the country and the film industry.{{Cite web |title=IMAGO. |url=https://www.imago-images.com/st/0705985666 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=www.imago-images.com}} He was previously awarded the rank of Chevalier in 1992.

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=uRocAQAAIAAJ Oliver Stone's Platoon & Salvador]. Co-authored with Richard Boyle. New York: Vintage Books, 1987. {{ISBN|978-0394756295}}. 254 pages.
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=GyskeQlVFfkC JFK: The Book of the Film: The Documented Screenplay]. Co-authored with Zachary Sklar. Hal Leonard Corporation, 1992. {{ISBN|978-1557831279}}.
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZW-aYbRvEkcC A Child's Night Dream: A Novel]. New York: Macmillan, 1998. {{ISBN|978-0312194468}}.
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=AZSG19XFvwIC Oliver Stone: Interviews]. University Press of Mississippi, 2001. {{ISBN|978-1578063031}}.
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=bgCjuAAACAAJ Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK]. Co-authored with Mark Lane & Robert K. Tanenbaum. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1620870709}}.
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=0WwIjdg47PoC The Untold History of the United States]. Co-authored by Peter Kuznick. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1451613513}}.
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=4BMkDwAAQBAJ The Putin Interviews]. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. {{ISBN|978-1510733435}}.
• Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game (July 2020){{cite web |url= https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/08/24/book-review-chasing-the-light-by-oliver-stone/ |title= Book Review: Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone |author= Edward Curtin |date= August 24, 2020 |work= Antiwar.com |access-date= November 28, 2020 |archive-date= November 28, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201128082020/https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/08/24/book-review-chasing-the-light-by-oliver-stone/ |url-status= live }}

• Crowdus, Gary. "Clarifying the Conspiracy: An Interview with Oliver Stone". Cinéaste, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1992. pp. 25–27. {{JSTOR|41688064}}.
• Long, Camilla. "Oliver Stone: Lobbing Grenades in All Directions". Archived from the original. The Sunday Times, July 25, 2010.
• {{cite web |first=Louis |last=Theroux |date=January 4, 2021 |publisher=BBC Radio 4 |title=The Untold History of the United States |series=Grounded |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p091pfzv}} (Omits mention of: Stone's support for whistleblower Julian Assange; "JFK")

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=h7j-DQAAQBAJ Snowden: Official Motion Picture Edition]. Co-authored with Kieran Fitzgerald. Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1510719712}}.

{{Reflist|35em|refs=

{{cite news

| url = http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article151977967.html

| title = Oliver Stone to direct Guantánamo Bay TV series

| publisher = Miami Herald

| date = May 22, 2017

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170524231516/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article151977967.html

| archive-date = May 24, 2017

| access-date = May 24, 2017

| url-status = live

| quote = Stone plans to direct the entire first season of the show, which was created by Daniel Voll.

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://deadline.com/2017/05/oliver-stone-direct-guantanamo-series-daniel-voll-weinstein-tv-1202099675/

| title = Weinstein TV Acquires Guantanamo Series From Oliver Stone & Daniel Voll

| publisher = Deadline

| author = Denise Petski

| date = May 22, 2017

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170522185239/http://deadline.com/2017/05/oliver-stone-direct-guantanamo-series-daniel-voll-weinstein-tv-1202099675/

| archive-date = May 22, 2017

| access-date = May 24, 2017

| url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/weinstein-company-oliver-stone-guantanamo-1202439807/

| title = Weinstein Company Acquires Oliver Stone TV Series Guantanamo

| publisher = Variety magazine

| author = Joe Otterson

| date = May 22, 2017

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170524233632/http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/weinstein-company-oliver-stone-guantanamo-1202439807/

| archive-date = May 24, 2017

| url-status = live

}}

{{cite news

| url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/weinstein-tv-acquires-oliver-stone-guantanamo-prison-drama-1006263

| title = Weinstein TV Nabs Oliver Stones Guantanamo Prison Drama

| publisher = The Hollywood Reporter

| author = Kate Stanhope

| date = May 22, 2017

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170522182754/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/weinstein-tv-acquires-oliver-stone-guantanamo-prison-drama-1006263

| archive-date = May 22, 2017

| access-date = May 24, 2017

| url-status = live

}}

}}

Articles

• Wills, Garry. "Dostoyevsky Behind a Camera: Oliver Stone is Making Great American Novels on Film". The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, No. 1, July 1997. pp. 96–101.

Books

• Hamburg, Eric. [https://archive.org/details/nixonoliverstone00ston Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film]. New York: Hyperion Books. {{ISBN|978-0786881574}}. 598 pages.
• Riordan, James. [https://archive.org/details/stonecontroversi00rior Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker]. New York: Hyperion Books, 1996. {{ISBN|978-0786860265}}. 618 pages.
• Salewicz, Chris. [https://archive.org/details/oliverstone0000sale Oliver Stone: The Making of His Movies]. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. {{ISBN|978-1560251620}}. 143 pages.
• Scott, Ian and Henry Thompson. [https://archive.org/details/cinemaofoliverst00kaga The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism]. Manchester University Press, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1526108715}}

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