Oliver Stone has declared that his 1991 film JFK will outlive him and remain a permanent cultural touchstone, telling iNews he doesn't believe the film will ever be forgotten. The claim, while self-aggrandising, comes from a director whose other works, including Scarface, Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, have already shown remarkable staying power decades after release, lending some weight to his confidence in JFK's endurance.

JFK remains Stone's most commercially successful film, the only one to top $200 million at the box office, and it earned eight Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Cinematography and Best Editing. Its longevity, the article suggests, owes as much to public fascination with conspiracy and treachery as to its acclaim, though the film was also heavily criticised by historians for presenting unproven theories about the Kennedy assassination as fact.