Oliver Stone

After initially jumping to Harvey Weinstein’s defense, director Oliver Stone walked back his comments Friday — saying he was “appalled” by the sexual harassment accusations against the disgraced movie mogul.
The 71-year-old Oscar winner also said he was cutting ties to the “Guantanamo” series due to the involvement with The Weinstein Company, which has fired the Hollywood horndog.

Sarajevo Film Festival organisers announced on Monday that the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award this year will be presented to Academy Award-winning scriptwriter and director Oliver Stone.

"Sarajevo Film Festival is honoured to pay tribute to the preeminent filmmaker," the organisers stated on their website.

One of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, Oliver Stone, "explained the essence of the US policy in the last 30 years" in a short speech, Sputnik is reporting.

The report noted that Stone "defined the functioning of America's 'system of just wars' and received thunderous applause" during his address several months ago at the Writers Guild Awards.

The US has repeatedly meddled in Russian politics, "especially aggressively" in the 2012 presidential elections, President Vladimir Putin told Oliver Stone, while dismissing allegations that Moscow hacked the US elections as lies from Trump's opponents.

Vladimir Putin – while giving Oliver Stone a tour of the Kremlin – reportedly told the director, “I am not a woman, so I don’t have bad days. I am not trying to insult anyone. That’s just the nature of things. There are certain natural cycles.”

According to Bloomberg, Stone was visiting the Kremlin to film “The Putin Interviews,” an upcoming four-part documentary.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told US filmmaker Oliver Stone that he was the target of several assassination attempts.

According to TASS, Stone said that he "heard of at least five assassination attempts on Putin," and continued:

Vladimir Putin told Oliver Stone that while he agrees that the NSA has gone too far in its snooping practices, and that the public sharing of data can't be called treason, he disapproves of Edward Snowden's decision to leak troves of confidential files.

US director Oliver Stone wants to make a documentary about Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said Nov. 6 on a visit to Moscow, where he is working on a film about fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden.
      

The real-life protagonist of the Academy award-winning 1978 film “Midnight Express” has again expressed his regret at how Turkey and its people were portrayed in the controversial film.