Gus Van Sant

Known for DirectingBorn 1952-07-24 (age 73)Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

At the Video Store

On the Set of 'Elephant': Rolling Through Time

About Cinema

Hi Octane

Good Will Hunting

Saltlake Van Sant

Critic

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

FEUD

Laurence Anyways

My Own Private River

Cinema16: American Short Films

Entourage

The Greatest Event in Television History

Boss

Milk

Psycho Path

David Bowie: Best of Bowie

Finding Forrester

Portlandia

Elephant

The Trainer

Leçon de Cinéma

My Own Private Idaho

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Funky Monks

Drugstore Cowboy

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman

Kids

Paris Je T'aime

Tarnation

Dead Man's Wire

Le Marais

Ouverture of Something That Never Ended

Restless

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Paranoid Park

To Each His Own Cinema

To Die For

Howl

Rescued from the Closet

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Promised Land

Strange Parallel

The Sea of Trees

When We Rise

Age Out