Gus Van Sant - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!
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| Name | Gus Van Sant |
| First Name | Gus |
| Last Name | Sant |
| Occupation | Director |
| Birthday | July 24 |
| Birth Year | 1952 |
| Place of Birth | Louisville |
| Home Town | Kentucky |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
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. He directed the pilot episode of Boss with He directed the first episode of Boss starring Kelsey Grammer…
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.
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.
Gus Van Sant Net Worth
Gus 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: January 13, 2024)
He was a student at in the Rhode Island School of Design.
| Net Worth | $50 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Director |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
Drugstore Cowboy’s exploration of the lives of those living on society’s outer fringes, as well as its Portland setting, were mirrored in Van Sant’s next effort, the similarly acclaimed My Own Private Idaho (1991). Only with the success of Cowboy was Van Sant now given license to make Idaho (a film he had originally pitched but was knocked back several times as the script was deemed ‘too risky’ by studios). Now New Line Cinema had given Van Sant the green light, he was on a mission to get the Idaho script to his first choices for his two young leads. After months of struggle with agents and managers over the content of the script, Van Sant finally secured River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in the roles of Mike Waters and Scott Favor. Centering around the dealings of two male hustlers (played by Phoenix and Reeves), the film was a compelling examination of unrequited love, alienation, and the concept of family (a concept Van Sant repeatedly explores in his films). The film won him an Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay (he had won the same award for his Drugstore Cowboy screenplay), as well as greater prestige. The film also gained River Phoenix best actor honors at the Venice Film Festival among others. In addition, it helped Reeves—previously best known for his work in the Bill and Ted movies—to get the critical respect that had previously eluded him.
Van Sant’s next film, a 1993 adaptation of Tom Robbins’ Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, was an excessive flop, both commercially and critically. Featuring an unusually large budget (for Van Sant, at least) of $8.5 million and a large, eclectic cast including Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Keanu Reeves and a newcomer in the form of River Phoenix’s younger sister Rain (at Phoenix’s suggestion), the film was worked and then reworked, but the finished product nonetheless resulted in something approaching a significant disaster.
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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Van Sant’s early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. He made his feature-length cinematic directorial debut with Mala Noche (1985). His second feature Drugstore Cowboy (1989) was highly acclaimed, and earned Van Sant screenwriting awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Circle and the award for Best Director from the National Society of Film Critics. His following film, My Own Private Idaho (1991), was similarly praised, as was the black comedy To Die For (1995), the drama Good Will Hunting (1997), and the biographical film Milk (2008); for the latter two, Van Sant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and both films received Best Picture nominations.
Who is Gus Van Sant Dating?
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Gus Van Sant. You may help us to build the dating records for Gus Van Sant!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.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Gus Van Sant height 5 ft 9 in Gus weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
| Height | 5 ft 9 in |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
After spending time in Europe, Van Sant went to Los Angeles in 1976. He secured a job as a production assistant to filmmaker Ken Shapiro, with whom he developed a few ideas, none of which came to fruition. In 1981, Van Sant made Alice in Hollywood, a film about a naïve young actress who goes to Hollywood and abandons her ideals. It was never released. During this period, Van Sant began to spend time observing the denizens of the more down-and-out sections of Hollywood Boulevard. He became fascinated by the existence of this marginalized section of L.A.’s population, especially in context with the more ordinary, prosperous world that surrounded them. Van Sant would repeatedly focus his work on those existing on society’s fringes, making his feature film directorial debut Mala Noche.
In 1997, Van Sant gained mainstream recognition and critical acclaim thanks to Good Will Hunting, which starred and was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The film—about a troubled, blue-collar mathematical genius—was a huge critical and commercial success. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Director for Van Sant. It also won two, including Best Screenplay for Damon and Affleck, and Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Robin Williams, who, in his acceptance speech, referred to Van Sant as “the mellowest man in Hollywood.” Van Sant, Damon and Affleck parodied themselves and the film’s success in Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Facts & Trivia
Gus Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Gus Van Sant celebrates birthday on July 24 of every year.
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
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