Oliver Stone (I)

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Personal Details

Other Works:

Wrote the novel "A Child's Night Dream" when he was nineteen years old. It was published in 1997.

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Height:

6' (1.83 m)

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Personal Quote:

I agree with my father that the foundation of a healthy, prosperous and relatively free society is capitalism. The whole Alexander Hamilton idea of capitalism was to make the country grow, and he was essentially right that banks could be used to make the country grow, because we need capital and we need credit... See more »

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Trivia:

Is one of 7 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director's Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same movie, winning for Platoon. The other directors to achieve this are Mike Nichols for The Graduate, Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Richard Attenborough for Gandhi, Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List, 'Ang Lee' for Brokeback Mountain, and Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire. See more »

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Trademark:

The issue of family and fatherhood are frequently involved in his films. In JFK, Garrison must juggle fatherhood with his job. In Alexander (2004), Alexander is torn between his parents. In Natural Born Killers, both the main characters were abused by their fathers. In Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, the two main characters cite that they went to Vietnam to live up to their fathers fighting in the Second World War. See more »

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Star Sign:

Virgo