1994–present
1994 saw the release of Stone's satire of the modern media, Natural Born Killers. Stone went on to direct Nixon (1995), which was nominated for Oscars for script and Anthony Hopkins' portrait of President Richard Nixon.
Stone followed Nixon the road movie/film noir, U Turn (1997), and Any Given Sunday (1999), a film about power struggles within and without an American football team. Stone also directed the critically savaged Alexander (2004). He later radically re-edited his biopic of Alexander the Great into a two-part, 3 hour 37 minute film (almost an hour longer) Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut (2007). After Alexander, Stone went on to direct World Trade Center (2006), based on the true story of two Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) policemen who were trapped in the rubble and survived after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Stone hoped to direct a fourth Vietnam War film Pinkville, about a Pentagon investigation into the My Lai Massacre of Vietnamese civilians. The film was to have been made for United Artists, but the company cancelled the December 2007 production start due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. After the strike, Stone went on to write, produce and direct the George W. Bush biopic, titled W. (2008). The film portrays the controversial President's childhood, relationship with his father, struggles with alcoholism, rediscovery of his Christian faith, and continues up until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Josh Brolin played the title role.
In 2010, Stone returned to the theme of Wall Street for the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. He directed the 2012 film Savages, based on a novel by Don Winslow, and featuring an ensemble cast that included John Travolta, Benicio del Toro, and Selma Hayek.
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