Starring a young Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, and Johnny Depp, ‘Platoon’ was a landmark achievement in war cinema.

Both Berenger and Dafoe received Academy Award nominations for their powerful performances. The film itself won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Oliver Stone. Platoon ...

Dafoe's early career includes credits for The Loveless (1982), Streets of Fire (1984), and To Live and Die in L. A. (1985). He earned his first Academy Award nomination for the war drama Platoon ...

Dafoe, the sixth of eight children ... his first breakthrough film role was as the compassionate Sergeant Elias in Platoon (1986). In 1988 Dafoe starred in another movie set during the Vietnam ...

Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning drama, the first of his Vietnam trilogy, starring Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp and John C McGinley.

Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe) had been one of the few good men ... before callously walking away and declaring him dead. As the platoon helicopter's out, they turn to see a sole, lonely figure ...