8 Worst Films Directed By Oscar Winners

Before winning Best Director for Platoon (1986) and Born On The Fourth Of July (1989), Oliver Stone won Best Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), which allowed him to jump start his flagging directing career.

Having previously directed only one feature, the 1974 horror oddity Seizure, Stone returned to the genre with The Hand, a merry tale about a comic book artist (curly-haired Michael Caine) who loses his hand in a car accident only for it to return and wreak havoc. Cue a typical 80s horror movie full of cheap shocks, bug-eyed overacting and lots of psychobabble intended to add “depth” to the story.

Caine later admitted The Hand was one of a string of lousy pictures he did strictly for the money (he did Escape To Victory the same year – nuff said), but Stone used the experience as a stepping stone to greater things. He got to make Salvador and Platoon next.