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Gus Van Sant
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.
As director
Dead Man's Wire
Ouverture of Something That Never Ended
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
The Sea of Trees
Promised Land
My Own Private River
Restless
Milk
8
Mansion on the Hill
Paranoid Park
To Each His Own Cinema
Paris Je T'aime
Best of Chris Isaak
Cinema16: American Short Films
Le Marais
Last Days
Elephant
Gerry
David Bowie: Best of Bowie
Finding Forrester
De Witt Clinton Choir
Easter
Psycho
Good Will Hunting
Ballad of the Skeletons
Four Boys in a Volvo
To Die For
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
My Own Private Idaho
As actor
The Trainer
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Andy by Gus
Zeroville
At the Video Store
Thank You for Supporting the Arts
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Illegal Civilization 3
Ain't It Funny
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
About Cinema
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
The Canyons
A Special Day
Reflecting On A Journey: Good Will Hunting 15 Years Later
The Advocate for Fagdom
Two Films, One Legacy
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Critic
Making Paranoid Park
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
In the Mood for Doyle
Paranoid Park
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Last Days
On the Set of 'Elephant': Rolling Through Time
The Making of Last Days
About Elephant
Saltlake Van Sant
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back