Gus Van Sant
Directing
1952-07-24 · 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.
Filmography
Dead Man's Wire
2026 · Movie
The Trainer
2024 · Movie
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023 · Movie
Andy by Gus
2023 · Movie
Joe Gives Up and Moves to Montana
2021 · Movie
Ouverture Of Something That Never Ended
2020 · Series
Ouverture of Something That Never Ended
2020 · Movie
At the Video Store
2019 · Movie
Zeroville
2019 · Movie
Illegal Civilization 3
2018 · Movie
Age Out
2018 · Movie
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 · Movie
Thank You for Supporting the Arts
2018 · Movie
Ain't It Funny
2017 · Movie
FEUD
2017 · Series
When We Rise
2017 · Series
Certain Women
2016 · Movie
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016 · Movie
The Sea of Trees
2016 · Movie
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
2015 · Movie
About Cinema
2015 · Movie
I Am Michael
2015 · Movie
The Canyons
2013 · Movie
Strutter
2013 · Movie
The Greatest Event in Television History
2012 · Series
Promised Land
2012 · Movie
Reflecting on a Journey: Good Will Hunting 15 Years Later
2012 · Movie
Laurence Anyways
2012 · Movie
A Special Day
2012 · Movie
My Own Private River
2012 · Movie
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011 · Movie
Boss
2011 · Series
Restless
2011 · Movie
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011 · Series
Two Films, One Legacy
2011 · Movie
Portlandia
2011 · Series
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 · Movie
I'm Still Here
2010 · Movie
Howl
2010 · Movie
Virginia
2010 · Movie
Shit Year
2010 · Movie
Accidents Happen
2009 · Movie
Milk
2008 · Movie
8
2008 · Movie
Mansion on the Hill
2008 · Movie
Making Paranoid Park
2008 · Movie
Critic
2008 · Movie
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Movie
In the Mood for Doyle
2007 · Movie
Paranoid Park
2007 · Movie
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007 · Movie
Wild Tigers I Have Known
2006 · Movie
Paris Je T'aime
2006 · Movie
Le Marais
2006 · Movie
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006 · Movie
Best of Chris Isaak
2006 · Movie
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006 · Movie
Last Days
2005 · Movie
Entourage
2004 · Series
On the Set of 'Elephant': Rolling Through Time
2004 · Movie
Leçon de Cinéma
2004 · Series
The Making of Last Days
2004 · Movie
Saltlake Van Sant
2003 · Movie
Tarnation
2003 · Movie
Elephant
2003 · Movie
About Elephant
2003 · Movie
Gerry
2002 · Movie
David Bowie: Best of Bowie
2002 · Movie
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2001 · Movie
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Movie
Finding Forrester
2000 · Movie
Easter
2000 · Movie
De Witt Clinton Choir
2000 · Movie
The Making of Drugstore Cowboy
1999 · Movie
Psycho Path
1999 · Movie
Speedway Junky
1999 · Movie
Psycho
1998 · Movie
Strange Parallel
1998 · Movie
The Director's Vision: Hollywood's Best Discuss Their Craft
1998 · Movie
Good Will Hunting
1997 · Movie
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997 · Movie
Four Boys in a Volvo
1996 · Movie
To Die For
1995 · Movie
Kids
1995 · Movie
Guns on the Clackamas
1995 · Movie
Hi Octane
1994 · Series
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994 · Movie
Made in the USA
1993 · Movie
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Funky Monks
1991 · Movie
My Own Private Idaho
1991 · Movie
Flea Sings
1991 · Movie
Thanksgiving Prayer
1991 · Movie
Drugstore Cowboy
1989 · Movie
Ken Death Gets Out of Jail
1988 · Movie
Junior
1988 · Movie
Mala Noche
1987 · Movie
Five Ways to Kill Yourself
1987 · Movie
My New Friend
1987 · Movie
Switzerland
1985 · Movie
The Discipline of D.E.
1982 · Movie
Property
1979 · Movie
Psycho Shampoo
1979 · Movie
1/2 of a Telephone Conversation
1973 · Movie
Little Johnny
1972 · Movie
The Happy Organ
1971 · Movie
Last Days
Movie
Nightmare Typhoon
Movie
Killing Gawker
Movie
My Friend
Movie
Untitled Hoyt Richards Film
Movie
Antinous
Movie
Explain it Like I’m Five
Movie