Gus van Sant

Also Credited As:

Gus Van Sant, Gus Green Van Sant
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Biography

Oscar-nominated writer and director Gus Van Sant was a key figure on the American independent film scene of the 1980s and 1990s, offering p tic yet clear-eyed excursions through America's seamy underbelly in films like "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989) and "My Own Private Idaho" (1991). Openly gay, Van Sant dealt unflinchingly with marginalized subcultures. Even as he segued into the mainstream with "Good Will Hunting" (1997) and "Milk" (2008), he …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Music, Sound, Other

Born

Gus Green Van Sant on July 24, 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA

LATEST CREDITS

William Burroughs: A Man Within

Himself

Orientations - Christopher Doyle: Stirred Not Shaken

Actor

The Director's Vision: Hollywood's Best Discuss Their Craft

Actor

The Canyons

Actor

The Untitled Jay Lacopo Project

Actor

Fabulous! The Story Of Queer Cinema

Actor

Champlin on Film

Actor

Hi-Octane

Guest

Last Days

Phone Voice, Director

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Himself

Guns on the Clackamas

Himself

Elephant

Director

To Die For

Director

Paranoid Park

Director

Finding Forrester

Director

Mala Noche

Director

Gerry

Director

Milk

Director

Psycho

Director

Drugstore Cowboy

Director

Promised Land

Director

Untitled (Gus Van Sant/Taylor Lautner Project)

Director

Good Will Hunting

Director

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Director