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.
Fotos
Películas (102)
La negociación
2026 · Director
The Trainer
2024 · Gus Van Sant
Nicole Kidman en primera persona
2023 · Self (interview)
Andy by Gus
2023 · Music
Joe Gives Up and Moves to Montana
2021 · Producer
Ouverture of Something That Never Ended
2020 · Director, Writer
At the Video Store
2019 · Self
El corte final
2019 · Film Archive Curator
Illegal Civilization 3
2018 · Self
Age Out
2018 · Executive Producer
No te preocupes, no irá lejos
2018 · Willamette Week Editor, Director, Editor, Screenplay, Story
Thank You for Supporting the Arts
2018
Ain't It Funny
2017 · Dad
Certain Women
2016 · Thanks
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016 · Self
The Sea of Trees
2016 · Director
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
2015 · Self
About Cinema
2015 · Self
I Am Michael
2015 · Executive Producer
The Canyons
2013 · Dr. Campbell
Strutter
2013 · Thanks
Promised Land
2012 · Director, Executive Producer
Reflecting on a Journey: Good Will Hunting 15 Years Later
2012 · Self
Laurence Anyways
2012 · Executive Producer
A Special Day
2012 · Self
My Own Private River
2012 · Director
The Advocate for Fagdom
2011 · Self
Restless
2011 · Director, Producer
Two Films, One Legacy
2011
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 · Self
I'm Still Here
2010 · Thanks
Howl
2010 · Executive Producer
Virginia
2010 · Executive Producer
Shit Year
2010 · Thanks
Accidents Happen
2009 · Thanks
Milk
2008 · Director, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
8
2008 · Director, Editor
Mansion on the Hill
2008 · Director
Making Paranoid Park
2008
Critic
2008 · Self
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Director
In the Mood for Doyle
2007 · Self
Paranoid Park
2007 · Guy Reading Newspaper (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Editor
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007 · Self
Wild Tigers I Have Known
2006 · Executive Producer
Paris Je T'aime
2006 · Director, Writer
Le Marais
2006 · Writer, Director
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006 · Director
Best of Chris Isaak
2006 · Director
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006 · Self
Last Days
2005 · Phone Voice (voice), Director, Screenplay, Editor
On the Set of 'Elephant': Rolling Through Time
2004 · Himself, Executive Producer
The Making of Last Days
2004 · Self
Saltlake Van Sant
2003 · Self
Tarnation
2003 · Executive Producer
Elephant
2003 · Screenplay, Editor, Director
About Elephant
2003 · Self
Gerry
2002 · Editor, Director, Writer
David Bowie: Best of Bowie
2002 · Director
Jay y Bob el Silencioso contraatacan
2001 · Gus Van Sant
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Self
Descubriendo a Forrester
2000 · Library Assistant (uncredited), Director
Easter
2000 · Director
De Witt Clinton Choir
2000 · Director
The Making of Drugstore Cowboy
1999 · Self
Psycho Path
1999 · Self - Director, Executive Producer
Speedway Junky
1999 · Executive Producer
Psycho
1998 · Man Talking to Man in Cowboy Hat (uncredited), Producer, Director
Strange Parallel
1998 · Self
The Director's Vision: Hollywood's Best Discuss Their Craft
1998 · himself
Good Will Hunting
1997 · Director, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997 · Writer, Director
Four Boys in a Volvo
1996 · Director
To Die For
1995 · Director
Kids
1995 · Executive Producer
Guns on the Clackamas
1995
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994 · Director, Writer, Editor, Executive Producer
Made in the USA
1993 · Self
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Funky Monks
1991 · Self
My Own Private Idaho
1991 · Man Behind Hotel Counter (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
Thanksgiving Prayer
1991 · Director, Producer
Flea Sings
1991 · Director
Drugstore Cowboy
1989 · Himself (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
Ken Death Gets Out of Jail
1988 · Director
Junior
1988 · Himself, Director
Mala Noche
1987 · Guy at Hotel (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
Five Ways to Kill Yourself
1987 · Director, Writer
My New Friend
1987 · Director
Switzerland
1985 · Director
The Discipline of D.E.
1982 · Director
Property
1979 · Sound
Psycho Shampoo
1979 · Director
1/2 of a Telephone Conversation
1973 · Director
Little Johnny
1972 · Director
The Happy Organ
1971 · Director
Nightmare Typhoon
· Gus, Director
Killing Gawker
· Director
Antinous
· Producer
My Friend
· Director
Explain it Like I’m Five
· Director
Last Days
· Original Film Writer
Untitled Hoyt Richards Film
· Director
Series (10)
Ouverture Of Something That Never Ended
2020 · Creator
Feud
2017 · Executive Producer, Director
When We Rise
2017 · Director, Executive Producer
The Greatest Event in Television History
2012 · Self
Boss
2011 · Executive Producer, Director
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011 · Self
Portlandia
2011 · Gus Van Sant
Entourage
2004 · Gus Van Sant
Leçon de Cinéma
2004 · Self
Hi Octane
1994 · Self