"2008 Republican Party presidential primaries The 2008 Republican presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Senator John McCain of Arizona was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2008 Republican National Convention held from Monday, September 1, through Thursday, September 4, 2008, in St. Paul, Minnesota. President George W Bush was ineligible to be elected to a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. In a"
"W. (film) W. is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life and presidency of George W. Bush. It was directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as Bush, with a supporting cast that includes Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Scott Glenn, and Richard Dreyfuss. Filming began on May 12, 2008, in Louisiana, and the film was released on October 17, 2008. In 1966, George W. Bush endures an initiation by his fellow Yale University students as a Delta Kappa Epsilon pledge. During the hazing, Bush successfully recalls the"
"which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and ""Heaven & Earth"" (1993). Stone's other notable works include the Salvadoran Civil War-based drama ""Salvador"" (1986); the financial drama ""Wall Street"" (1987) and its 2010 sequel """"; the Jim Morrison biographical film ""The Doors"" (1991); the satirical black comedy crime film ""Natural Born Killers (1994);"" and a trilogy of films based on the American Presidency—""JFK"" (1991), ""Nixon"" (1995) and ""W."" (2008). His latest film is ""Snowden"" (2016). Many of Stone's films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century, and as such were considered contentious at the times of"
"episodes of ""Futurama"" and ""Saturday Night Live"". Some argued that this was evidence that he was ""presenting a whole new side of himself"" to contradict the perception of a persona ""often associated with stiffness and caution."" There was further speculation that it was indicative of a 2004 presidential run. The election is the subject of a 2008 made-for-TV movie directed by Jay Roach, produced by, and starring Kevin Spacey called ""Recount."" It premiered on the HBO cable network on May 25, 2008. Al Gore 2000 presidential campaign The 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore, the 45th Vice President of the"
"but the company officially cancelled the production start due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Shortly after the strike, Stone went on to write and direct the George W. Bush biopic ""W."", that chronicles the controversial President's childhood, relationship with his father, struggles with his alcoholism, rediscovery of his Christian faith, and continues the rest of his life up until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In 2010, Stone returned to the theme of ""Wall Street"" for the sequel """". In 2012, Stone directed ""Savages"", based on a novel by Don Winslow. In 2014, Stone announced that his Martin"
"dreams of himself playing center field at a baseball game. Bush attempts to catch a pop fly, but it disappears. ""W"" was Oliver Stone's third film in a trilogy he made about the Presidency, set in the time from the 1960s to today: the set began with ""JFK"" and continued with ""Nixon"". Originally, he was attached to direct ""Pinkville"", a film about the Army's investigation of the My Lai Massacre, but development was canceled due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and actor Bruce Willis pulling out of the film three weeks before shooting was set to start."
"biopic of his life (starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. as King). The movie is directed by Oliver Stone, ""pissing off"" Spike Lee (a reference to Lee's anger that Norman Jewison was initially supposed to direct ""Malcolm X""). Unfortunately, the movie is released the week after the September 11 attacks, making it a flop. Soon after, King appears on ""Politically Incorrect"", stating that his Christian faith teaches him to ""turn the other cheek"", even with respect to enemies such as Al-Qaeda. His commentary receives severe scorn from the White House Press Secretary, CNN and ""Time"" magazine, and causes his popularity to plummet."
"are revealed to be a gang of jewel thieves who have rigged the Election. In a parody of the films ""Ocean's Eleven"" and ""Entrapment"", Obama and McCain use the hype and fear of Election Night to carry out a high-tech heist from the Smithsonian. Parker and Stone briefly considered parodying Christopher Nolan's ""The Dark Knight"" by having then-President George W. Bush gallantly take the blame for the Smithsonian heist. They decided against it, however, as they felt that jokes about President Bush had been ""done to death"". Following the announcement of the 2008 presidential election results, Barack Obama and John"
"is president of the United States. In ABC's 2008 series ""Life on Mars"" (a remake of BBC's series of the same name), it is hinted that Malia Obama, the daughter of then-candidate Barack Obama, is the President in 2035. Actor Danny Glover played President Thomas Wilson in the 2009 movie ""2012."" NBC's 2010 series ""The Event"" features Blair Underwood in a starring role as Elias Martinez, an Afro-Cuban US President. Actor Jamie Foxx played President James William Sawyer in the 2013 movie ""White House Down"". Actor Samuel L. Jackson played William Alan Moore, the US President in the 2014 movie"
"The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Annabeth Gish, Marley Shelton, Powers Boothe, J. T. Walsh, E. G. Marshall, James Woods, Paul Sorvino, Bob Hoskins, Larry Hagman, and David Hyde Pierce, plus cameos by Ed Harris, Joanna Going, and political figures such as President Bill Clinton in TV footage from the Nixon funeral service. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Best Supporting Actress (Joan Allen), Best Original Score (John Williams) and Best Original Screenplay. This was Stone's second of three films about the American presidency, made four years after ""JFK"", about the assassination of"
"of Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"", at the Gaiety in Dublin as part of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival's 50th Anniversary. That same year he received the King Vidor Memorial Award from the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival for his artistic achievements in film. More recently, Cromwell played George Herbert Walker Bush in Oliver Stone's ""W."" (2008), that chronicles the rise to power of his son up until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In an interview, Cromwell revealed that Stone had originally offered the role to Warren Beatty and Harrison Ford. Cromwell also provided the voice"
"but it doesn't matter to the American public. It's okay to wreck the Middle East."" According to Entertainment Weekly, Stone voted for Barack Obama as President of the United States in both the 2008 and 2012 elections, instead of John McCain and Mitt Romney, the GOP candidates for the presidency. Stone was quoted as saying at the time: ""I voted for Obama because ... I think he's an intelligent individual. I think he responds to difficulties well ... very bright guy ... far better choice yes."" In 2012, Stone endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination for President, citing his"
"Nixon (film) Nixon is a 1995 American epic historical drama film directed by Oliver Stone, produced by Clayton Townsend, Stone and Andrew G. Vajna. The film was written by Stone, Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rievele. The film tells the story of the political and personal life of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins. The film portrays Nixon as a complex and, in many respects, admirable, though deeply flawed, person. ""Nixon"" begins with a disclaimer that the film is ""an attempt to understand the truth [...] based on numerous public sources and on an incomplete historical record."""
"Bush was ranked 39th out of 43, with poor ratings in handling of the economy, communication, ability to compromise, foreign policy accomplishments and intelligence. In 2004, Michael Moore released his documentary ""Fahrenheit 9/11"", which went on to become the highest-grossing political documentary of all time. The film is critical of Bush and the War on Terrorism. Christopher Hitchens and Ed Koch have criticized ""Fahrenheit 9/11"" as dishonest and inaccurate. In 2008, director Oliver Stone, a noted liberal and Democrat who is known as a critic of Republican policymakers including Bush, directed a biographical film about Bush entitled ""W."", featuring Josh"
"The Untold History of the United States The Untold History of the United States (also known as Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States) is a 2012 documentary series created, directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone about the reasons behind the Cold War, the decision to drop the atomic bombs, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism. Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick (director of American University's Nuclear Studies Institute) began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. The documentary miniseries for Showtime had a"
"film critic Owen Gleiberman stated that Stone ""may be the most under-celebrated great documentary filmmaker in America."" His films ""Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst"" (2004) and ""Oswald's Ghost"" (2008) both received Emmy nominations for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking; Gleiberman hailed them as ""two of the most explosively insightful documentaries of the last decade"". His only foray into fiction filmmaking was a counter-factual fake historical documentary for German television called ""World War Three"" in 1998. In addition to his work making feature-documentaries, in the early 1990s he was commissioned to create a 24-part semi-interactive permanent installation at the JFK"
"were ""Born on the Fourth of July"" and ""Heaven & Earth"", each dealing with different aspects of the war. ""Platoon"" is a semi-autobiographical film about Stone's experience in combat; ""Born on the Fourth of July"" is based on the autobiography of US Marine turned peace campaigner Ron Kovic; ""Heaven & Earth"" is based on the memoir ""When Heaven and Earth Changed Places"", in which Le Ly Hayslip recalls her life as a Vietnamese village girl drastically affected by the war and who finds another life in the USA. Stone also directed the acclaimed ""Wall Street"", which won Michael Douglas an"
"brothers' Academy Award-winning film ""No Country for Old Men"". Brolin also starred in another Oliver Stone film in 2008 called ""W."", a biopic about key events in the life of President George W. Bush. Stone pursued an initially hesitant Brolin for the role. He said of his decision to cast Brolin in the leading role: Brolin received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gus Van Sant's biopic ""Milk"" as city supervisor Dan White, who assassinated San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. He made news by wearing a White Knot to the Academy"
"Award for Best Picture and ""Born on the Fourth of July"". Stone won the Academy Award for Directing for both films. Both films were told from the perspective of Americans. ""Platoon"" was based on Oliver Stone's own experience in Vietnam and ""Born on the Fourth of July"" was based on the experiences of veteran Ron Kovic. After ""Platoon"", Hayslip would stand outside movie theaters in San Diego, where she lived at the time, and hand out fliers. ""I am not against the movie,"" Hayslip said, ""But I want them to know that 3 million of my people died in that"
"Sean Stone - son of film director Oliver Stone) and an Iraqi driver living in Los Angeles as a refugee (played by Anouar H. Smaine himself). The film aims to raise awareness about post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans and civilians alike and also attempts to highlight the humanity that exists in people regardless of race, faith, or nationality. Anouar H. Smaine Anouar H. Smaine (born 1976) is an American film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter of Algerian descent. He is the son of a French professor, and an actor and playwright. Anouar H. Smaine was born in Algiers,"
"U.S. vs. John Lennon"" (2006), """" (2007), and ""Rush to War: Between Iraq and a Hard Place"" (2004), among other documentaries. The films ""Nixon"" (1995), ""Dick"" (1999), ""All the President's Men"" (1976), ""Some Kind of Hero"" (1982), and ""The Seventies (2000 TV miniseries)"" reference McGovern and his 1972 presidential campaign. In director Oliver Stone's ""Nixon"", McGovern is repeatedly cited, including President Nixon (played by Anthony Hopkins) responding to southern conservatives and a right wing special interest group who threaten Nixon by taking away his campaign funds for the 1972 presidential campaign due to Nixon's policies on Cuba, the Environmental Protection"
"of 6.8/10. It was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Anthony Hopkins), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Joan Allen), Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. ""Entertainment Weekly"" ranked ""Nixon"" #40 on their ""50 Best Biopics Ever"" list and one of the 25 ""Powerful Political Thrillers"". The theatrical cut of the film was released on DVD on June 15, 1999. A director's cut was released on DVD as part of an Oliver Stone boxset in 2001, running 212 mins and including 28 minutes of previously deleted scenes"
"Ukrainian government, and was the legitimate president forced to leave Ukraine by ""well-armed, neo-Nazi radicals"". He said that in ""the tragic aftermath of this coup, the West has maintained the dominant narrative of ’Russia in Crimea’ whereas the true narrative is ’USA in Ukraine’"". The University of Toronto's Stephen Velychenko, the author of several books on Ukrainian history, and James Kirchick of ""The Daily Beast"" criticized Stone's comments and plans for a film. Oliver Stone William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American writer and filmmaker. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of"
"at the box office after a slow start, earning over $205 million in worldwide gross, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 1991 worldwide. ""JFK"" was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Stone and Best Supporting Actor for Jones and won two for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. It was the most successful of three films Stone made about American presidents, followed by ""Nixon"" with Anthony Hopkins in the title role and ""W."" with Josh Brolin as George W. Bush. The film opens with newsreel footage, including the farewell address in 1961 of outgoing"
"the Castro has been the site for gala tributes to many legendary Hollywood stars including Tony Curtis, Ann-Margret, Debbie Reynolds, Jane Russell, and Sandra Dee—many of the events produced by local impresario Marc Huestis. In January 2008, for the filming of the Gus Van Sant biopic ""Milk"", restorations were made to the neon on the theater's marquee and blade sign, and the facade was repainted. The movie about the life and times of Harvey Milk, the San Francisco city Supervisor who was California's first openly gay elected official (portrayed by actor Sean Penn, who won an Academy Award for his"
"2006, the campaign was inducted into the CLIO Hall of Fame. Eight years later, Stone made another version of the ad with the same cast, called ""Wassup 2008"". The 2-minute short film was heavily critical of the presidency of George W. Bush and was a clear endorsement of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. The 2008 video was nominated for the Favorite User Generated Video award at the 35th People's Choice Awards. The film ""Scary Movie"" (2000) parodied the ad in one scene. In 2001, the British music duo Shaft released a song and video titled ""Wassuup!"" under the name"
"2006, Newton performed on radio in a pantomime version of ""Cinderella"". In 2007, Newton co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the comedy ""Norbit a""s his love interest, and then opposite Simon Pegg as his ex-girlfriend in the 2008 comedy ""Run Fatboy Run"". Newton next portrayed US National Security Advisor-turned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in ""W."", Oliver Stone's film biography of President George W. Bush. The film was released 17 October 2008. Newton was an introducer at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007, for the UK leg of Live Earth. She was due to introduce Al Gore to the concert, but"
"Award for media biography, and was a finalist for a 2008 PEN Center USA literary award; it was also named a best book and best biography of the year by the Boston Globe, Rocky Mountain News and BookList.com. In 2016, ""All Governments Lie: Truth Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone"", a 2016 documentary featuring today's best investigative reporters was based in part on her Stone book. The documentary premiered at the International Toronto Film Festival; Oliver Stone is the executive producer and veteran journalist Fred Peabody directed the film which showed internationally. MacPherson’s latest book, ""The Scarlet Sisters:"
"request. In January 2008, Stone founded Citizens United Not Timid, an anti-Hillary Clinton 527 group with an intentionally obscene acronym. Stone is featured in """", documentary on Lee Atwater made in 2008. He also was featured in """", the 2010 documentary of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg considers Stone his mentor during this time, and ""surrogate father"". In February 2010, Stone became campaign manager for Kristin Davis, a madam linked with the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, in her bid for the Libertarian Party nomination for governor of New York in the 2010 election. Stone said"
"in order to tell the story of his transformative effect on modern politics–which reaches its climax in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States of America. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2017, to critical acclaim. ""Entertainment Weekly"" called it a ""staggering, shock-to-the-system political documentary."" ""The Atlantic"" described it as ""an incisive portrait of how Stone's brand of dirty tricks -- in which the only motivating factor in politics is to win -- came to dominate the current state of disarray."" The film was released worldwide on Netflix"
"Milk (film) Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, a city supervisor who assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The film was released to much acclaim and earned numerous accolades from film critics and guilds. Ultimately, it received eight"
"devoutly Christian"". ""Milk"" had received accolades from several film critics organizations. Milk (film) Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, a city supervisor who assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The film was released to much acclaim and earned"
"and diagrams, clips from fictional movies, and Stone's voiceover narration. Historical quotations and writings from various figures are read by voice actors. Oliver Stone used clips from about 60 fictional movies and TV shows over the course of ""The Untold History of the United States."" He used them as a vehicle for telling stories of specific topics during given episodes. In 2012, ""The Guardian"" journalist Glenn Greenwald highly recommended the series and book, describing it as ""riveting"", ""provocative"" and ""worthwhile"". Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wrote approvingly of the book:Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick provide a critical overview of US"