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Oliver Stone
He won an Oscar for Best Director for Ordinary People (1980).
Elia Kazan won best director for the movie On the Waterfront.
Michael Cimino.
"Ordinary People."
The movie won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The award goes to the director of the movie, in this case Billie August.
'Platoon' (1986) takes place in Vietnam in 1967.
Billy Wilder won Best Director that year for the movie The Apartment.
Contrary to popular belief, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore did not win an Oscar. He did go on stage when An Inconvenient Truth won the Oscar for Best Documentary. But the prize goes to the director of the movie. Gore was not the director of the movie.
John Singleton was the first black director nominated for an Oscar for Best Director. He was nominated for the movie Boyz n the Hood in 1991. He was also the youngest director ever nominated, at age 23.
James Cameron won the Oscar for Best Director for Titanic (1997).
Platoon