"JFK"

No other film of Stone's solidified in the public's mind an image of the filmmaker as did his 1991 story examining the fallout from the assassination of President Kennedy. "JFK" took New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) on a hyper-kinetic journey into a labyrinth of politics, espionage, dirty tricks and lost innocence, in which a patriotic, conservative law enforcement official begins to doubt his faith in his government - but not the law. The film was nominated for 8 Oscars and won 2, for its bravura cinematography and editing.

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