As Director
Dead Man's Wire
2025
7.0
Gus Van Sant
Acting
Birth Date
July 24, 1952
Place of Birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Biography
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.
Complete Filmography
As Actor
Zeroville
2019
5.1
As Director, As Writer
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
6.7
As Actor
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
2015
6.7
As Actor
The Canyons
2013
4.4
As Director
Promised Land
2012
6.3
As Director
My Own Private River
2012
7.5
As Director
Restless
2011
6.5
As Actor
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
6.7
As Director
Milk
2008
7.2
As Director
8
2008
5.2
As Actor
In the Mood for Doyle
2007
4.0
As Director, As Writer
Paranoid Park
2007
6.6
As Director, As Writer
Last Days
2005
5.6
As Director, As Writer
Elephant
2003
7.0
As Director, As Writer
Gerry
2002
6.1
As Director
Finding Forrester
2000
7.1
As Director
Psycho
1998
5.1
As Actor
Strange Parallel
1998
5.9
As Director
Good Will Hunting
1997
8.2