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Platoon | War Crime
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | 1987 | Tom Berenger
Best Director Motion Picture | 1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Director | 1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Director | 1986 | Oliver Stone
Best Director | 1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Director | 1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Screenplay | 1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Cinematography | 1987 | Robert Richardson
Best Feature | 1987 | Arnold Kopelson
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1987 | H. Gordon Boos
Top Box Office Films | 1988 | Georges Delerue
Best Casting for Feature Film Drama | 1987 | Bob Morones
Best Edited Feature Film | 1987 | Claire Simpson
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1987 | Tom Berenger
Best Writing Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Screenplay Motion Picture | 1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Cinematography | 1988 | Robert Richardson
Best Male Lead | 1987 | Willem Dafoe
1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Foreign Screenplay Migliore Sceneggiatura Straniera | 1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Director | 1987 | Oliver Stone
Best Director | 1986 | Oliver Stone
Budget 6,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 138,530,565 USD
According to Oliver Stone, he intentionally cast Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe against type. Berenger was mostly famous for playing good guys, while Dafoe had primarily played villains up until then. Both men received Oscar nominations for their work.
In many U.S. military leadership classes, the character of Lieutenant Wolfe is used as an example of how not to behave as a junior officer.
Before shooting commenced, all of the actors had to undergo an intensive two-week basic training in the Philippines under the supervision of military adviser Dale Dye. Oliver Stone's intention was not to have the men bond and act as one unit, but to deprive them of sleep, and make them utterly exhausted, so that they would be burnt out, and therefore in character.
According to his DVD commentary, the scene in which Chris saves a Vietnamese girl from being raped was inspired by an incident in which Oliver Stone intervened in an assault on a villager in Vietnam.
Oliver Stone wrote the first draft of "Platoon" in 1971, and sent it to Jim Morrison in hopes that he would play the part Charlie Sheen would ultimately play. Morrison had the script on him when he was found dead in Paris. It is unknown whether he would have been cast had he lived. However, Stone eventually made "The Doors (1991)" based on Morrison's life.
"[Refering to Vietnam] Chris Taylor: Somebody once wrote, "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell."
"[last lines] Chris Taylor: [voiceover] I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days as I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called possession of my soul. There are times since, I've felt like the child born of those two fathers. But, be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again, to teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life."
