14 Directors Who Desperately Need A Hit Movie

9. Oliver Stone

Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone has been struggling to regain his former glory for, well, decades.

His last critical and commercial hit was 2006's World Trade Center, though that was a pretty modest outlier in honesty, and the last time one of his films truly enraptured both critics and audiences was 1984's JFK (which landed him a Best Director Oscar nomination).

Stone has been basically plodding along making incredibly divisive movies for decades, and as such he's certainly long overdue a ferocious smash hit that lights a fire under the general public.

Will It Happen?: At this point, it's honestly pretty doubtful, and the fact that Stone's been able to keep making movies this long despite his wishy-washy reputation probably doesn't inspire him to change things up.

Stone doesn't have any feature films on the horizon, and while he definitely still has the potential to release a jaw-dropping hit, it's hard to have much faith.