In my opinion, from the middle of the 1980s until 1992, when Quentin Tarantino made his directorial debut with Reservoir Dogs, there were only three directors who almost always released at least one film per year, and whose name demanded the attention of the entire movie going public. Steven Spielberg, who along with producer/director George Lucas has seemingly defined how a motion picture should be handled since the mid 1970s; Spike Lee, one of the pioneers in films directed by minorities; and the man who seemed to only associate himself with controversial material, Oliver Stone (director of the films Salvador, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, and Nixon).
Probably Stone’s most controversial film (at least until the release of his autobiographical satire of a US President still in office, W.) was Natural Born Killers in 1994. Peter Travers, Rolling Stone’s premier film critic offered this quote to praise the film and director:
This is one of my all time favorite movies, and it put Oliver Stone on my list of 'Best Directors Ever,' right along with Stanley [Kubrick].
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