A whistle-blower must face the consequences of revealing an illegal secret surveillance program run by the government to the public in Director Oliver Stone’s new biographical political thriller, Snowden.
Stone’s film tells the true story of Edward Snowden, a government contractor who became a world renowned and polarizing figure after exposing illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and was ultimately forced to flee his own country after becoming a wanted man.
Following the DGA membership screening in New York on September 14, Stone sat down with Director Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher) to discuss the making of Snowden.
In addition to Snowden, Stone’s credits include the feature films Savages, World Trade Center, Any Given Sunday, Nixon, The Doors, Wall Street, and Salvador; the feature documentaries Mi Amigo Hugo, Castro in Winter and South of the Border; and episodes of the television documentary series The Untold History of the United States and America Undercover. In 1992, Stone was nominated for the DGA Award and the Academy Award for his feature JFK. He won both the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures and the Oscar for Best Director for his 1989 feature Born on the Fourth of July and his 1986 feature Platoon. Stone has been a DGA member since 1980.