Gus Van Sant will be celebrated by the Venice Film Festival with its Campari Passion for Film Award. Van Sant is a key figure ...

Van Sant will receive the honor in Venice on Sept. 2 ahead of the out of competition world premiere of his new film Dead ...

Gus Van Sant, the revered filmmaker behind Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting and Palme d'Or-winning Elephant, is set to receive ...

One of Van Sant’s masterworks is “Elephant,” the 2003 drama loosely based on the mass shooting at Colorado’s Columbine High School.

‘Elephant’ at 20: A Drama About a Mass Shooting Remains Chilling When Gus Van Sant made his experimental feature in response to the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, he said, he didn’t ...

We know how the story ends. And Gus Van Sant, who wrote and directed "Elephant," knows that we know. And he has made the brave and wise choice to throw out conventional film structure -- assuming ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Myha’la (HBO’s Industry), Cary Elwes (Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning), and John Robinson (Elephant) are joining Gus Van Sant’s hostage thriller Dead Man’s Wire, which is ...

Director Gus Van Sant poses for photographers during a photo call for the film The Sea of Trees, at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 16, 2015.

Critical quote: “In the dichotomy between (Van Sant’s) audience-pleasing big movies (‘To Die For,’ ‘Good Will Hunting’) and his audience-resistant art films (‘Gerry,’ ‘Elephant ...

Read some of our favorite highlights from Van Sant’s body of work. Gus was not the first choice to direct “Good Will Hunting” “We were doing ‘To Die For’ and Matt Damon came in to ...

‘Elephant’ at 20: A Drama About a Mass Shooting Remains Chilling When Gus Van Sant made his experimental feature in response to the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, he said, he didn’t ...