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Gus Van Sant

34 films directed 2 Awards 1 Nominations

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.

Most directed genres

Recurring actors

Awards and nominations

  • 2003 Palme d'Or
  • 2003 Cannes Best Director Award
  • 1998 Academy Award for Best Director Nominated

The career in numbers

  • US$ 223 mi Total budget from 19 film(s) with data
  • US$ 482 mi Total box office from 17 film(s) with data
  • US$ 12 mi Average budget from 19 film(s) with data
  • US$ 28 mi Average box office from 17 film(s) with data
  • 6.5 Average rating from 20 film(s) with data
  • 2.2× Return on investment from 17 film(s) with data

Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.

Films directed

Film Year Budget Box office Rating
Dead Man's Wire poster Dead Man's Wire 2026 US$ 13 mi US$ 2 mi 6.5
Ouverture of Something That Never Ended poster Ouverture of Something That Never Ended 2020 — — 6.5
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot poster Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot 2018 US$ 4 mi US$ 4 mi 6.7
The Sea of Trees poster The Sea of Trees 2016 US$ 25 mi US$ 909,000 6.2
Promised Land poster Promised Land 2012 US$ 15 mi US$ 8 mi 6.3
My Own Private River poster My Own Private River 2012 — — 7.4
Restless poster Restless 2011 US$ 8 mi US$ 3 mi 6.5
Milk poster Milk 2008 US$ 20 mi US$ 55 mi 7.2
8 poster 8 2008 — — 5.4
Paranoid Park poster Paranoid Park 2007 US$ 3 mi US$ 5 mi 6.5
To Each His Own Cinema poster To Each His Own Cinema 2007 — — 6.4
Paris Je T'aime poster Paris Je T'aime 2006 US$ 13 mi US$ 17 mi 6.8
Le Marais poster Le Marais 2006 — — 6.7
Best of Chris Isaak poster Best of Chris Isaak 2006 — — 6.0
Last Days poster Last Days 2005 US$ 5 mi US$ 2 mi 5.6
Elephant poster Elephant 2003 US$ 3 mi US$ 10 mi 7.0
Gerry poster Gerry 2002 US$ 4 mi US$ 255,000 6.1
David Bowie: Best of Bowie poster David Bowie: Best of Bowie 2002 — — 7.1
Finding Forrester poster Finding Forrester 2000 US$ 43 mi US$ 80 mi 7.1
Psycho poster Psycho 1998 US$ 25 mi US$ 37 mi 5.1
Good Will Hunting poster Good Will Hunting 1997 US$ 10 mi US$ 226 mi 8.2
Ballad of the Skeletons poster Ballad of the Skeletons 1997 — — 5.8
To Die For poster To Die For 1995 US$ 20 mi US$ 21 mi 6.6
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues poster Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1994 US$ 8 mi — 4.3
My Own Private Idaho poster My Own Private Idaho 1991 US$ 3 mi US$ 6 mi 7.0
Thanksgiving Prayer poster Thanksgiving Prayer 1991 — — 6.1
Flea Sings poster Flea Sings 1991 — — —
Drugstore Cowboy poster Drugstore Cowboy 1989 US$ 3 mi US$ 5 mi 7.1
Junior poster Junior 1988 — — —
Mala Noche poster Mala Noche 1987 US$ 22,500 — 6.1
Five Ways to Kill Yourself poster Five Ways to Kill Yourself 1987 — — 3.3
The Discipline of D.E. poster The Discipline of D.E. 1982 — — 6.0
Nightmare Typhoon poster Nightmare Typhoon — — — —
Untitled Hoyt Richards Film poster Untitled Hoyt Richards Film — — — —

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