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Van Sant was nominated for a Best Director Academy Award in 1998 for Good Will Hunting, and won Best Director and Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his film ElephantElephant ( 2003) is a film by director Gus Van Sant, an account of a school shooting in fictional Watt High School, in Portland, Oregon. Van Sant was awarded Best Director and also the Palme d'Or prize at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for this film. The t. He has written the screenplays for most of his early movies as well as a novel "Pink" BooksEnthsiast.com. A book of his photography has also been published called "108 Portraits" BooksEnthsiast.com. Some of the movies he has written and / or directed include an adaptation of Tom Robbins' novel Even Cowgirls get the Blues, which featured a truly one-of-a-kind cast (Keanu Reeves, Roseanne, Angie Dickenson, Uma Thurman and cameos by William S Burroughs and a then-unknown Heather Graham, among others) and My Own Private Idaho, also starring Keanu Reeves as well as the late River Phoenix.

He has released two CDs entitled "Gus van Sant" and "18 Songs About Golf". He currently lives in Portland, OregonPortland is the largest city in Oregon, and county seat of Multnomah County. It is a major Pacific seaport located about sixty miles from the west coast of the United States, situated on both sides of the Willamette River, just south of its confluence wit.

Director - filmography

• Last Days ( 20052005 is a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). It has been designated: The World Year of Physics The International Year of Microcredit The International Year for Sport and Physical Education The United States Year of Foreign) - in production
• Elephant ( 2003)
• GerryGerry is a 2002 film directed by Gus Van Sant starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. The film received widely diverse reactions, from contempt to lavish praise, as it made its way through the film festival circuit and the few theaters to which it was rele ( 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom)
• Finding Forrester ( 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri)
• PsychoThis article is about the novel and the movies based on it. Psycho is usually a slang abbreviation of " psychopath". Robert Bloch's pulp novel Psycho partly inspired by the crimes of Ed Gein, was made into a black-and-white feature film in 1960 by Alfred ( 1998 - a remake)
• Good Will Hunting ( 1997)
• To Die For ( 1995)
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues ( 1993)
• My Own Private Idaho ( 1991)
• Drugstore Cowboy ( 1989)
• Mala Noche ( 1985)