Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant

Director (b. 1952)
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The ThumbScore for Gus Van Sant (70.2%) is the average audience approval rating across 18 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Gus's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

18
Movies
70.2%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Gus Van Sant’s films lower than 63% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Good Will Hunting (YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla, Pluto TV) · Milk (YouTube) · Drugstore Cowboy (Fandango at Home, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) · Paranoid Park (Kanopy) · Gerry (Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, Pluto TV, Plex, Prime Video (free), Cineverse, Xumo Play, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (Prime Video (free)) and 1 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Matt Damon (2)Casey Affleck (2)Grace Zabriskie (2)Matt Dillon (2)Joaquin Phoenix (2)

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 directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. In his films, he has dealt with themes concerning homosexuality and other marginalized subcultures. His filmography as writer and director includes an adaptation of Tom Robbins' novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, which features a diverse cast (Keanu Reeves, Roseanne Barr, Uma Thurman, and k.d. lang, with cameos by William S. Burroughs and Heather Graham, among others); and My Own Private Idaho, also starring Reeves as well as River Phoenix. He wrote the screenplays for most of his early movies, and wrote one novel, Pink. A book of his photography has also been published, called 108 Portraits.

Born 1952-07-24 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

On ThumbScore, Gus Van Sant appears in 18 films with an average audience score of 70.2%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Gus Van Sant movie, ranked by audience score

Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting
1997
👍 93%
My Own Private Idaho
My Own Private Idaho
1991
👍 87%
Milk
Milk
2008
👍 82%
To Die For
To Die For
1995
👍 77%
Drugstore Cowboy
Drugstore Cowboy
1989
👍 77%
Paranoid Park
Paranoid Park
2007
👍 75%
Finding Forrester
Finding Forrester
2000
👍 72%
Elephant
Elephant
2003
👍 70%
Restless
Restless
2011
👍 69%
Mala Noche
Mala Noche
1987
👍 67%
Gerry
Gerry
2002
👍 66%
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018
👍 64%
Psycho
Psycho
1998
👍 63%
Promised Land
Promised Land
2012
👍 62%
The Sea of Trees
The Sea of Trees
2016
👍 62%
Last Days
Last Days
2005
👍 61%
Dead Man's Wire
Dead Man's Wire
2026
👍 60%
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
👍 56%