Actor in a Leading Role - William Hurt in Children of a Lesser God.

Platoon movie oscars. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys LGBTQ Pride Month STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Intl Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events. Then and Now 2019Share This Video. Platoon won the Academy Award for best picture and the Golden Globe Award for best drama.

Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys LGBTQ Pride Month STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Intl Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events. Platoon American war film released in 1986 that was written and directed by Oliver Stone and was regarded by many critics as one of the best of the movies about the Vietnam War. Referencesedit Tapley Khristopher October 29 2017.

Actress in a Supporting Role - Piper Laurie in Children of a Lesser God. It was Stones second career Oscar - he had won earlier for his screenplay for Midnight Express 1978. It lost Best Picture to The Godfather1972.

Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - Hesper Anderson Mark Medoff. 1987 Oscars - YouTube. Platoon a movie that was turned down by every major studio was named best picture of the year tonight.

Winner of 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture and based on the first-hand experience of Oscar winning director Oliver Stone Platoon is powerful intense and starkly brutal. A shrewd examination of the brutality of. It was a well-earned victory with critics still to this day naming director Oliver Stones intense drama as one of war cinemas.

HttpsyoutubeL__lF8b9LYUCopyright DisclaimerThis video made for education and entertaining pur. Arnold Kopelson accepts the award for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Oliver Stone wins the Oscar for directing for Platoon at the 59th Academy Awards.