Gus Van Sant

Director | Producer | Actor

Gus Van Sant was born on July 24, 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA as Gus Greene Van Sant Junior. ...

Born: July 24, 1952

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Filmography

Known For

Elephant Director (2003)
Drugstore Cowboy Director (1989)
Paranoid Park Director (2007)
Known For

My Own Private Idaho Director (1991)
Director

Ouverture of Something that Never Ended (2020)
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
Facebook: World of Hopes (2018)
When We Rise (2017)
The Devil You Know (2015)
The Sea of Trees (2015)
Promised Land (2012)
My Own Private River (2012)
Boss (2011)
Restless (2011)
Milk (2008)
8 (2008)
Paranoid Park (2007)
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Desecration Smile - Alternative Version (2007)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Desecration Smile (2007)
Cinema16: American Short Films (2006)
Paris, je t'aime (2006)
Best of Chris Isaak (2006)
John Mayer Trio: Who Did You Think I Was (2005)
Last Days (2005)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Videos (2003)
Elephant (2003)
Best of Bowie (2002)
Gerry (2002)
Finding Forrester (2000)
Psycho (1998)
Hanson: Weird (1998)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Allen Ginsberg: The Ballad of the Skeletons (1997)
Candlebox: Understanding (1996)
Four Boys in a Volvo (1996)
To Die For (1995)
K.D. Lang: Just Keep Me Moving (1993)
Bowie: The Video Collection (1993)
Stone Temple Pilots: Creep - Alternate Version (1993)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
Chris Isaak: San Francisco Days (1993)
Elton John: The Last Song (1992)
Deee-Lite: Runaway (1992)
Tracy Chapman: Bang Bang Bang (1992)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge (1992)
William Burroughs: Thanksgiving Prayer (1991)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Tommy Conwell & The Young Rumblers: I'm Seventeen (1991)
David Bowie: Fame '90 (1990)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Ken Death Gets Out of Jail (1988)
My New Friend (1987)
Five Ways to Kill Yourself (1987)
Mala Noche (1986)
The Discipline of D.E. (1982)
Director

Psycho Shampoo (1979)
Producer

The Censor of Dreams (2021)
Age Out (2018)
When We Rise (2017)
I Am Michael (2015)
Promised Land (2012)
Boss (2011-2012)
Revolution (2012)
Laurence Anyways (2012)
Act Up! (2012)
Restless (2011)
Virginia (2010)
Howl (2010)
Lightfield's Home Videos (2006)
Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
On the Set of 'Elephant': Rolling Through Time (2004)
Tarnation (2003)
Speedway Junky (1999)
Psycho Path (1998)
Psycho (1998)
Kids (1995)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
William Burroughs: Thanksgiving Prayer (1991)
Five Ways to Kill Yourself (1987)
Mala Noche (1986)
Producer

The Discipline of D.E. (1982)
Actor

Zeroville Film Archive Curator (2019)
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot Willamette Week Editor (2018)
Danny Brown: Ain't It Funny Dad (2017)
Portlandia Gus Van Sant (2011-2014)
The Canyons Dr. Campbell (2013)
Entourage Gus Van Sant (2008)
Paranoid Park Guy Reading Newspaper (2007)
Last Days Phone Voice (2005)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Gus Van Sant (2001)
Finding Forrester Library Assistant (2000)
Psycho Man Talking to Man in Cowboy Hat (1998)
My Own Private Idaho Man Behind Hotel Counter (1991)
Five Ways to Kill Yourself (1987)
Actor

Mala Noche Guy at Hotel (1986)
Writer

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
Paranoid Park (2007)
Paris, je t'aime (2006)
Last Days (2005)
Elephant (2003)
Gerry (2002)
Allen Ginsberg: The Ballad of the Skeletons (1997)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Five Ways to Kill Yourself (1987)
Mala Noche (1986)
Writer

The Discipline of D.E. (1982)
Soundtrack

Restless (2011)
Soundtrack

Mala Noche (1986)
Editor

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
8 (2008)
Paranoid Park (2007)
Last Days (2005)
Elephant (2003)
Gerry (2002)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
Mala Noche (1986)
Editor

The Discipline of D.E. (1982)
Archive footage

Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016)
Because of Who I Am (2015)
Heaven Adores You (2014)
Welcome to the Basement (2013-2014)
Milk: Hollywood Comes to San Francisco (2009)
Cinema mil (2005)
Archive footage

101 Biggest Celebrity Oops (2004)
The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998)
Sound Department

Milk (2008)
Finding Forrester (2000)
Sound Department

Good Will Hunting (1997)
Property (1979)
Additional Crew

Queens of Heart: Community Therapists in Drag (2006)
Camera and Electrical Department

King Cole's Party (1987)

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Videos

Awards

Nominated for 2 Oscars.

Another 46 wins & 68 nominations.

Did You Know

Trivia

Interviewed in "Directors Close Up: Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America", ed. by Jeremy Kagan, Scarecrow Press, 2006.

Quotes

Kubrick was a good model. He had an autonomy I've never had but that one desire. He organized things a certain way. And he had a good relationship with Warner Brothers. He was their class act.