Oliver Stone had the best director's run ever ('86-'95)

[DerekG]

Check this out:

Salvador
Platoon
Wall Street
Talk Radio
Born on the Fourth of July
JFK
Heaven and Earth
The Doors
Natural Born Killers
Nixon


This run is unparalleled in American cinema. Even better than Scorsese in his prime.

[charlie and algernon]

1. Christopher Nolan has a good run going currently

Memento
Insomnia
Batman Begins
The Prestige
The Dark Knight
Inception

[UTUSN]

2. & yet he is sneered at (mostly?) by wingnuts

And outside the o.p.'s specs of the Director-role and the time period, 1978, the screenplay (Oscar) for Midnight Express.


And Randy QUAID was in Midnight Express, which I hadn't realized/remembered. He was also great in one of my all time favorites, The Last Detail. Alas, poor Randy these days!1

[UTUSN]

3. Dupe post n/t

[applegrove]

4. Platoon was a great flic. Salvador too.

[7wo7rees]

5. JFK is in my Top 20

He put a lot of meat on that over-gnawed bone.

Colonel X's speech at the Lincoln Memorial was remarkable. Sage Sutherland counseling confused Costner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROqXzHq09IY

Oliver Stone been doin' it since way way back.

[provis99]

6. I noticed,

that you cut the list off before we got to Alexander...:P

[ohiosmith]

7. Ron Howard ain't no slouch either.

1969 Old Paint Short film
Deed of Daring-Do Short film
Cards, Cads, Guns, Gore and Death Short film
1977 Grand Theft Auto Also writer
1982 Night Shift
1984 Splash
1985 Cocoon
1986 Gung Ho Also executive producer
1988 Willow
1989 Parenthood Also writer
1991 Backdraft
1992 Far and Away Also writer/producer
1994 The Paper
1995 Apollo 13
1996 Ransom
1999 EDtv Also producer
2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Also producer
2001 A Beautiful Mind Academy Award for Best Director
Also producer

2003 The Missing Also producer
2005 Cinderella Man Also producer
2006 The Da Vinci Code Also producer
2008 Frost/Nixon Academy Award nomination for Best Director
Also producer

2009 Angels & Demons Also producer
2011 The Dilemma Also producer

[Yavin4]

8. Don't Know about The Doors, But That Is A Damn Impressive List

The crying shame is that his films, Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, and Born on the Fourth of July were filled with object lessons that if we had heeded would have prevented Iraq and the financial crisis.