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Gus Van Sant
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American film director, producer, photographer and musician (born 1952)
Gus Van Sant is an American filmmaker, photographer, and musician born in 1952 who has worked across multiple creative mediums throughout his career. He is known for his work as a film director and producer, contributing to contemporary cinema as a multidisciplinary artist.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 24
Top works
- Pink
- Elephant
- Last days (2005)
- Elephant (2003)
- Drugstore cowboy (1989)
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Film & TV
Directing · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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…
Known for
- The Trainer — Gus Van Sant2024
- Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open — Self (interview)2023
- Andy by Gus2023
- Zeroville — Film Archive Curator2019
- At the Video Store — Self2019
- Thank You for Supporting the Arts2018
- Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot — Willamette Week Editor2018
- Illegal Civilization 3 — Self2018
- Ain't It Funny — Dad2017
- Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible — Self2016
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Portland
- Active from
- 1952
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Gus Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American Academy Award nominated film director, photographer, musician, and author. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. Openly gay, he has dealt unflinchingly with homosexual and other marginalized subcultures without being particularly concerned about providing positive role models. His <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gus+Van+San
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
· 2017 · cited 33,776x
- Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath
· 1984 · cited 28,843x
- MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,651x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,660x
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Quotes
- “Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.”
- “For me it was a lot like using music. I used it when I felt that it was right, when I felt like it was time.”
- “I grew up on the experimental cinema coming out of New York and San Francisco in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American filmmaker, photographer, painter, and musician. He has earned acclaim as an independent filmmaker, and is considered to be one of the most prominent auteurs of the new queer cinema movement. His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultures, especially within gay culture.
His early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. He made his feature-length directorial debut film Mala Noche (1985). He earned acclaim for a string of independent films such as the crime drama Drugstore Cowboy (1989), the adventure film My Own Private Idaho (1991), and the black comedy To Die For (1995). He earned Academy Award for Best Director nominations for the drama Good Will Hunting (1997), and the biographical film Milk (2008), both of which also received Best Picture nominations.
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