Gus Van Sant
American film director, producer, photographer and musician · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1952 · age 74
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, photographer, painter, and musician. He has earned acclaim as an independent filmmaker, and is considered to be one of the most prominent auteurs of the new queer cinema movement.
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A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Dead Man's WireFilm, Director2020
Ouverture Of Something That Never EndedSeries, Creator2019
ZerovilleFilm, Film Archive Curator2018“I grew up on the experimental cinema coming out of New York and San Francisco in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.”In their words23 April 2018Stated in the interview Gus Van Sant remembers Andy Warhol’s transgressive film The Chelsea Girls, Interview magazine2017
FEUDSeries, Director, Producer
When We RiseSeries, 2017Director, Producer2016
The Sea of TreesFilm, Director2013
The CanyonsFilm, Dr. Campbell2012
The Greatest Event in Television HistorySeries2011
BossSeries, Director, Producer
PortlandiaSeries, 2011Gus Van Sant
The Story of Film: An OdysseySeries, 2011
RestlessFilm, 2011Director, Producer2009“Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be.”In their words16 January 2009From an interview by Chai Hong Lim, The Guardian2008
8Film, Director2006
Fabulous! The Story of Queer CinemaFilm2004
EntourageSeries, Gus Van Sant
Leçon de CinémaSeries, 20042003Cannes Best Director AwardAwardPalme d'OrAward
ElephantFilm, 2003Director, Writer2001
Jay and Silent Bob Strike BackFilm, Gus Van Sant1999
Speedway JunkyFilm, Producer1997
Good Will HuntingFilm, Director1994
Hi OctaneSeries
Even Cowgirls Get the BluesFilm, 1994Director, Writer1989
Drugstore CowboyFilm, Director, Writer1982
The Discipline of D.E.Film, Director1952Born24 July 1952People around Gus
Close ties
Matt Damon Gus directed Good Will Hunting (1998)
Casey Affleck Gus directed Good Will Hunting and To Die For
Grace Zabriskie Gus directed My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Harmony Korine Gus directed Good Will Hunting and Last Days
Alison Folland Gus directed Good Will Hunting and To Die For
William S. Burroughs Gus directed Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)
Udo Kier Gus directed My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Buck Henry Gus directed To Die For (1995)
Keanu Reeves Gus directed My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Joaquin Phoenix Gus directed To Die For (1995)
Willem Dafoe Gus directed Paris, je t'aime (2006)
James Franco Gus directed Milk (2009)
David Cronenberg Gus directed To Die For (1995)
Josh Brolin Gus directed Milk and To Each His Own Cinema
Matt Dillon Gus directed To Die For and Drugstore Cowboy
Heather Graham Gus directed Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)
Flea Gus directed My Own Private Idaho and Psycho
Mary-Louise Parker Gus produced Howl (2011)
James Remar Gus directed Psycho and Drugstore Cowboy
Michael Pitt Gus directed Finding Forrester and Last Days
Carrie Preston Gus directed When We Rise
James LeGros Gus produced Psycho (1998)
Rain Phoenix Gus directed To Die For (1995)
Matt Malloy Gus directed Elephant and Finding Forrester
Known for
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Good Will Hunting 1997
Laurence Anyways 2012
Milk 2008
Finding Forrester 2000
Drugstore Cowboy 1989
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
160 credits on file
Television 10
Media & music
In their own words 1
, For me it was a lot like using music. I used it when I felt that it was right, when I felt like it was time.
Awards
About this person
His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, especially within gay culture.
