Gus Van Sant

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gus Van Sant
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Jul 24, 1952(1952-07-24)
Age	72
Birthplace	Louisville
Country	United States
Birth City	Kentucky
Horoscope	Cancer

Gus Van Sant Biography

Gus Van Sant is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on July 24, 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. An acclaimed filmmaker whose films Milk as well as Good Will Hunting earned him Oscar nominations for Best Director.

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The success of Good Will Hunting afforded Van Sant the opportunity to remake the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho. As opposed to reinterpreting the 1960 film, Van Sant opted to recreate the film shot-for-shot, in color, with a cast of young Hollywood A-listers. His decision was met with equal parts curiosity, skepticism, and derision from industry insiders and outsiders alike, and the finished result met with a similar reception. It starred Anne Heche, Vince Vaughn and Julianne Moore, and met with a negative critical reception and did poorly at the box office.

Van Sant is an alumnus of Darien High School in Darien, Connecticut, and The Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon. One constant in the director’s early years was his interest in visual arts (namely, painting and Super-8 filmmaking); while still in school he began making semi-autobiographical shorts costing between 30 and 50 dollars. Van Sant’s artistic leanings took him to the Rhode Island School of Design in 1970, where his introduction to various avant-garde directors inspired him to change his major from painting to cinema.

His birthplace was Louisville and was frequently moved because of his father’s position as a salesman who traveled.

Gus Van Sant Net Worth

Gus Van Sant is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gus Van Sant 's net worth $50 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at in the Rhode Island School of Design.

He was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his 2003 film Elephant.

Gus Green Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and mainstream filmmaker. His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, in particular homosexuality; as a result, Van Sant is considered one of the most prominent auteurs of the New Queer Cinema movement.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Gus Van Sant height 5 ft 9 in Gus weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Gus Van Sant Dating?

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Van Sant’s 1995 film To Die For helped to restore his luster. An adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel, the black comedy starred Nicole Kidman as a murderously ambitious weather girl; it also stars Matt Dillon as her hapless husband and, the third Phoenix sibling in as many projects, Joaquin Phoenix, as her equally hapless lover (River had died from a drug overdose a year and half earlier). It was Van Sant’s first effort for a major studio (Columbia), and its success paved the way for further projects of the director’s choosing. The same year, he served as executive producer for Larry Clark’s Kids; it was a fitting assignment, due to both the film’s subject matter and the fact that Clark’s photographs of junkies had served as reference points for Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy.

Facts & Trivia

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It took Gerry over a year to make it to theaters, in which time Van Sant began production on his next film, Elephant. Approached by HBO and producer Diane Keaton to craft a fictional film based on the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, the director chose to shoot in his hometown of Portland, employing dozens of untrained, teen actors. As well as melding improvisational long takes like those in Gerry with Harris Savides’ fluid camerawork, the film was also influenced by Alan Clarke’s 1989 film of the same name (see Elephant). The finished film provoked strong reactions from audiences at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. At the Cannes festival, the jury awarded Elephant with their top prize, the Palme d’Or, and Van Sant with his first Best Director statue from the festival. The success of Elephant led Van Sant to show the U.S. premiere of Elephant as a fundraiser for Outside In, an organization working to help youth living on the streets of Portland, Oregon.

How old is Gus Van Sant?

70 years (July 24, 1952)

Who influenced Gus Van Sant?

With his latest film, Gerry, a hypnotic and transcendent tale of friendship and mortality, Van Sant was inspired by Belgian-French filmmaker Chantal Akerman and Hungarian Bela Tarr.

Where in Portland does Gus Van Sant live?

The “Milk” and “Good Will Hunting” director, listed as an executive producer on the upcoming dystopian sci-fi pic “City of Gold,” continues to own a 2,000 -square-foot loft condo in a converted warehouse building in Portland’s fashionable Pearl District that he picked up in late 2001 for a smidgen less than $530,000.

Has Gus Van Sant won an Oscar?

Awards

What high school did Gus Van Sant go to?

Education