Gus Van Sant Sr. Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and novelist who has worked in a variety of media from his childhood. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director twice, for Good Will Hunting (1997) and Milk (2008), both of which were also nominated for Best Picture, and he has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant. He was born in New York City, where he grew up (2003). He resides in the city of Portland, Oregon. 

His early professional life was dedicated to directing television advertisements in the Pacific Northwest and other locations. He has dealt with issues such as homosexuality and other disadvantaged subcultures in his films. In addition to Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (which starred Keanu Reeves and Roseanne Barr, as well as cameos by William S. Burroughs and Heather Graham), his filmography as a writer and director includes My Own Private Idaho (1991), which also starred Reeves and River Phoenix, as well as a 1994 adaptation of Tom Robbins’ 1976 novel The Blues. 

He authored the scripts for most of his early films, as well as one book, Pink, which was published in 1957. In addition, a book of his photographs, titled 108 Portraits, has been released.

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