Gus Van Sant
Directing
Born 1952-07-24
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
112 credits
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Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Achievement in Directing for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk, and won the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
His early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. In his films, he has dealt with themes concerning homosexuality and other marginalized subcultures.
His filmography as writer and director includes an adaptation of Tom Robbins' novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which features a diverse cast (Keanu Reeves, Roseanne Barr, Uma Thurman, and k.d. lang, with cameos by William S. Burroughs and Heather Graham, among others); and My Own Private Idaho, also starring Reeves as well as River Phoenix.
He wrote the screenplays for most of his early movies, and wrote one novel, Pink. A book of his photography has also been published, called 108 Portraits.
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Filmography
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Entourage
Good Will Hunting
Portlandia
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
FEUD
Kids
Dead Man's Wire
Boss
Leçon de Cinéma
Finding Forrester
To Die For
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Elephant
Psycho
My Own Private Idaho
Paris Je T'aime
Milk
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
The Sea of Trees
I'm Still Here
Certain Women
When We Rise
Promised Land
The Greatest Event in Television History
Zeroville
Drugstore Cowboy
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
The Canyons
Gerry
A Special Day
I Am Michael
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Laurence Anyways
Paranoid Park
Restless
Hi Octane
Last Days
To Each His Own Cinema
Shit Year
Howl
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Strutter
Age Out
Le Marais
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Funky Monks
Mala Noche
The Trainer
Tarnation
Virginia
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Andy by Gus
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Rescued from the Closet
Illegal Civilization 3
Wild Tigers I Have Known
Last Days
Speedway Junky
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
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