William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American filmmaker. Stone became known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially. He has received three Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), and Best Director for Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Stone's movies often use many different cameras and film formats, including VHS, 8 mm film, and 70 mm film. He sometimes uses several formats in a single scene, as in Natural Born Killers (1994) and JFK (1991).

Filmography

• 2025Oliver Stone: The Outsider — Self - director, subject
• 2025RFK: Legacy — Self, Executive Producer
• 2024Lula — Self, Director
• 2024Qazaq — Self, Producer
• 2023Nuclear Now — Self, Director, Writer
• 2021JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass — Self / Narrator (voice), Director
• JFK: Destiny Betrayed — Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Creator
• Qazaq: History of the Golden Man — Self, Executive Producer
• The War on Cuba — Executive Producer
• 2019Revealing Ukraine — Self, Executive Producer
• The Putin Interviews — Self, Director, Screenplay, Creator
• 2016All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone — Executive Producer
• 2016Snowden — Director, Screenplay
• 2016Ukraine on Fire — Self, Executive Producer
• 2015A Good American — Executive Producer
• 2014My Friend Hugo — Self, Director
• 2012Castro in Winter — Self, Director
• 2012Greystone Park — Oliver
• Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States — Narrator, Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Creator
• 2012Savages — Director, Screenplay
• 2012The Untold History Of The United States — Narrator, Director, Writer
• 2010Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2009South of the Border — Self, Director
• 2008W. — Director
• The Henry Rollins Show
• 2006World Trade Center — Director
• 2005Torrente 3: The Protector — Inglés borracho
• 2004Alexander — Macedonian Soldier at Zeus Statue (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
• 2004Looking for Fidel — Self, Writer, Director
• 2003Comandante — Self, Director, Producer
• 2003Persona Non Grata — Self, Director
• 2001The Day Reagan Was Shot — Executive Producer
• 1999Any Given Sunday — Tug Kowalski: TV Announcer #1, Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 1999The Corruptor — Executive Producer
• 1998Assassinated: The Last Days of Kennedy and King — Executive Producer
• 1998Savior — Producer
• 1997Cold Around the Heart — Executive Producer
• 1997Gravesend — Executive Producer
• 1997U Turn — Director
• 1996Evita — Screenplay
• 1996Freeway — Executive Producer
• 1996The People vs. Larry Flynt — Producer
• 1995Nixon — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1994Natural Born Killers — Director, Screenplay
• 1994The New Age — Executive Producer
• 1993Dave — Oliver Stone
• 1993From Hollywood to Hanoi — Self, Executive Producer
• 1993Heaven & Earth — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1993The Joy Luck Club — Executive Producer
• Wild Palms — Producer, Executive Producer, Creator
• 1992Malcolm X — Thanks
• 1992South Central — Executive Producer
• 1992Zebrahead — Executive Producer
• 1991Iron Maze — Executive Producer
• 1991JFK — Screenplay, Producer, Director
• 1991The Doors — UCLA Film Professor, Director, Writer
• 1990Blue Steel — Producer
• 1990Reversal of Fortune — Producer
• 1989Born on the Fourth of July — News Reporter, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1988Talk Radio — Director, Screenplay
• 1987Wall Street — Trader - Office, Director, Writer
• 19868 Million Ways to Die — Screenplay
• 1986Platoon — Alpha Company Major in Bunker (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1986Salvador — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1985Year of the Dragon — Screenplay
• 1983Scarface — Screenplay
• 1982Conan the Barbarian — Writer
• 1981The Hand — Bum, Director, Screenplay
• 1978Midnight Express — Screenplay
• 1974Seizure — Anchor (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Editor
• 1973Sugar Cookies — Producer
• 1971Last Year in Viet Nam — War Veteran, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1971The Battle of Love's Return — Cliff
• 1970Michael and Marie — Writer, Director
• 1970Street Scenes 1970 — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• White Lies — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (85)

• 2026Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky — Self
• 2026Robert Richardson: The White Devil — Self
• 2025Breakdown: 1975 — Self
• 2025Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words — Self
• 2025Truth and Lies: Who Killed JFK? — Self
• The Tucker Carlson Show — Self - Guest
• 100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self
• 2023Cannes Uncut — Self
• 2022Ennio — Self
• 2022Icahn: The Restless Billionaire — Self
• 2022Michael Cimino, God Bless America — Self
• 2022Theaters of War — Self
• Directors on Directors — Self
• 2021Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Oliver Stone : comment filmer la violence — Self
• Once Upon a Time in Queens — Self
• 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Val — Self (archive)
• 2020Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood — Self
• 1994 — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Le cinéma américain du sulfureux Oliver Stone — Self
• 2019Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic — Self - Filmmaker
• 2018Mooch — Self
• 2017Once upon a time on Wall Street — Self
• 2015Brand: A Second Coming — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• 2015French Cinema Mon Amour — Self
• 2015Mindfulness: Be Happy Now — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2014Hollywood Banker — Self
• 2014Mystical Traveler: The Life and Times of Dr. John-Roger — Self (archive footage)
• 2014The Weight of Chains 2 — Self
• 2013LT: The Life & Times — Self
• 2013Milius — Self
• 2013Project Censored the Movie — Self
• 2013The Ghosts of Jeju — Self
• 2013Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka — Self
• 2012A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington — Self - Interviewee
• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2012Stanley Kubrick in Focus — Self
• 2011The Undefeated — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Turning Like Clockwork — Self
• 2010Rock Poet: Jim Morrison — Self
• 2010The Invocation — Self
• 2007Cannes: All Access — Self
• 2007Crime Wave: The City Is Dark — Self
• 2007Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute — Self
• 2007Side Street: Where Temptation Lurks — Self
• 2007Tension: Who's Guilty Now? — Self
• 2007They Live by Night: The Twisted Road — Self
• 2006Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat — Self
• 2006Refuge — Self
• 2006Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire — Self
• 2005Becoming Alexander — Self
• 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• 2004Oliver Stone's America : a dialogue with Oliver Stone — Self
• Sarah Kuttner – Die Show — self - segment
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• 2002Jim Brown: All-American — Self
• 2002John Ford Goes to War — Self - Interviewee
• 2001A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' — Self
• 2001Into the Valley of Death — Self
• 2000Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan' — Self
• 1999Censored! — Self
• Independent Focus — Self
• 1998The Making of 'Scarface' — Self
• 1997Frank Capra's American Dream — Self
• 1997Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner — Self
• 1997The Doors: The Road of Excess — Self
• E! True Hollywood Story — Self
• 1996Love in Hollywood — Self
• 1995Empire of the Censors — Self
• 1995Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue — Self
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self
• 1993Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy — Self
• 1993The Last Party — Self
• 1992Our Hollywood Education — Self
• 1992The JFK Conspiracy — Self
• 1989First Works — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self (uncredited)
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary — Self