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Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, ... The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards at the 59th Academy Awards, and won four
80 Years of the Oscar: The Complete History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States: Abbeville Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-7892-0992-4. Wiley, Mason; Bona, Damien (1996), Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards (5 ed.), New York, United States: Ballantine Books, ISBN 978-0-345-40053-6, OCLC 779680732
Stone has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), ] for Platoon (1986) and the Best Director twice for Platoon (1986), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), He has also received a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, five Golden Globe Awards, and two Directors Guild of ...
The film won Best Picture at the 1986 Academy Awards. Other significant early films include the 1986 Clint Eastwood-directed jazz biopic Bird , and the 1990 remake Night of the Living Dead .
The 2024 Oscars are already shaping up to be a memorable evening—and Paul Giamatti's reaction to Da'Vine Joy Randolph's win for Best Supporting Actress is an early highlight of the ceremony.
Get your tissues ready. Brendan Fraser gave one of the most emotional speeches of his career as he accepted Best Actor at the 2023 Academy Awards on March 12. Brendan won for his role in The Whale ...
If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non-competitive award will be shown in brackets next to the ...
Dafoe made his film debut in Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980) before earning his first Academy Award nomination for Oliver Stone's war film Platoon (1986). In 1988 he starred as Jesus Christ in Martin Scorsese 's religious epic The Last Temptation of Christ and as an FBI Agent Alan Parker 's racial drama Mississippi Burning .