Gus Van Sant Biography

Gus Van Sant is an American film director screenwriter painter photographer musician and author. He is a two-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director for Good Will Hunting in 1997 and Milk in 2008 both of which were also nominated for Best Picture. He also won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant.
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 a 1994 adaptation of Tom Robbins' 1976 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 in 1991 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.
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