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==Biography==
Stone was born in [[England]] and educated in the [[United States]]. His father [[Lawrence Stone]] was a noted historian<ref name="Tri">{{Triangulation|208|Robert Stone}}</ref> and chair of the History Department at [[Princeton University]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey]] where Robert grew up, graduating [[Princeton High School (New Jersey)|Princeton High School]] in 1976.<ref>Mroz, Jacqueline. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/nyregion/new-jersey/15sundancenj.html?_r=0 "Sundance Honor for Film of Early Save-the-Earth Activists"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 13, 2009. Accessed December 10, 2018. "When he was just 11 years old and living in Princeton, Robert Stone borrowed his parents’ Super 8 camera and made his first film, about the pollution he saw around him.... After attending Princeton High School, Mr. Stone studied history in college."</ref> He was later educated at the [[University of Wisconsin at Madison]], did a brief stint at [[Sorbonne University]] in Paris and at the [[Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute]] in New York. His debut work was the Academy Award-nominated ''[[Radio Bikini]]'' (1988),<ref name="Oscars1988">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1988 |title=The 60th Academy Awards (1988) Nominees and Winners |access-date=October 16, 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_MSM0szHxs The Ten-Year Lunch Wins Documentary Feature: 1988 Oscars]</ref> about [[nuclear tests]] performed around [[Bikini Atoll]] in 1946.
[[File:Robert-Stone-director.jpg|thumb|Robert Stone in 2019]] Known in large part for his innovative use of archival material in historical documentaries, Stone has directed several well received documentaries that he has shot himself, including ''American Babylon'' (2000) and, most recently, ''[[Pandora's Promise]]'' (2013), which makes the environmental case for nuclear energy as a solution to climate change.▼
▲Known in large part for his innovative use of archival material in historical documentaries, Stone has directed several well received documentaries that he has shot himself, including ''American Babylon'' (2000) and, most recently, ''[[Pandora's Promise]]'' (2013), which makes the environmental case for nuclear energy as a solution to climate change.
[[Entertainment Weekly]] film critic [[Owen Gleiberman]] stated that Stone "may be the most under-celebrated great documentary filmmaker in America."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/01/24/why-is-the-way-way-back-a-crowd-pleaser/ |title=Sundance: What makes 'The Way, Way Back' a crowd-pleaser? Plus 'Pandora's Promise,' a radically sane and important documentary about how nuclear power could save us |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |author-link=Owen Gleiberman |date=24 Jan 2013 |website=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> His films ''Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst'' (2004) and ''Oswald's Ghost'' (2008) both received Emmy nominations for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking; Gleiberman hailed them as "two of the most explosively insightful documentaries of the last decade".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2010/04/18/a-great-doc-40-years-after-earth-day/ |title=40 years after Earth Day, 'Earth Days' reveals that much of what you think you know about the modern environmental movement is wrong |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |author-link=Owen Gleiberman |date=18 April 2010 |website=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> For ''[[Earth Days]]'' (2009), Stone received a nomination for the [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tvsourcemagazine.com/2010/02/1904-2010-writers-guild-award-winners/|title=2010 Writers Guild Award Winners|date=21 February 2010|website=TV Source Magazine|accessdate=20 February 2019}}</ref>▼
His only foray into fiction filmmaking was a counter-factual fake historical documentary for German television called ''[[World War III (film)|World War Three]]'' in 1998. In addition to his work making feature-documentaries, in the early 1990s he was commissioned to create a 24-part semi-interactive permanent installation at the [[JFK Presidential Library]] in Boston.
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Stone lives in New York's [[Hudson Valley]] with his wife, Shelby Stone (a film and television producer), and his two teenage sons from a previous marriage.
==Accolades==
▲[[Entertainment Weekly]] film critic [[Owen Gleiberman]] stated that Stone "may be the most under-celebrated great documentary filmmaker in America."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/01/24/why-is-the-way-way-back-a-crowd-pleaser/ |title=Sundance: What makes 'The Way, Way Back' a crowd-pleaser? Plus 'Pandora's Promise,' a radically sane and important documentary about how nuclear power could save us |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |author-link=Owen Gleiberman |date=24 Jan 2013 |website=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> His films ''Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst'' (2004) and ''Oswald's Ghost'' (2008) both received Emmy nominations for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking; Gleiberman hailed them as "two of the most explosively insightful documentaries of the last decade".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2010/04/18/a-great-doc-40-years-after-earth-day/ |title=40 years after Earth Day, 'Earth Days' reveals that much of what you think you know about the modern environmental movement is wrong |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |author-link=Owen Gleiberman |date=18 April 2010 |website=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |accessdate=30 September 2013}}</ref> For ''[[Earth Days]]'' (2009), Stone received a nomination for the [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tvsourcemagazine.com/2010/02/1904-2010-writers-guild-award-winners/|title=2010 Writers Guild Award Winners|date=21 February 2010|website=TV Source Magazine|accessdate=20 February 2019}}</ref>
==Filmography==
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