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Platoon is a 1986 American anti-war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring an ensemble of several actors lead by Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, and Charlie Sheen.
It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth (1993).
Stone wrote the screenplay based upon his own brutal, terrible and traumatic personal experiences as a U.S.infantryman in the Vietnam War, to counter the falsely heroic and pro-militaristic vision of the war portrayed in John Wayne's The Green Berets (1968).
Platoon was the first Hollywood film to be written and directed by an actual veteran of the Vietnam War.
Platoon won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1986; it also won Best Director for Oliver Stone, as well as Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed Platoon at #83 in their "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies" poll.
