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

In Venice, Van Sant will also receive the Campari Passion for Film Award. The award ceremony will take place on 2 September ...

Gus Van Sant will be celebrated by the Venice Film Festival with its Campari Passion for Film Award prior to the premiere of ...

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

Born in 1952 in Louisville, Ky., Van Sant moved frequently as a child and from age 10 lived in Darien, Conn., the kind of buttoned-down bedroom community that Van Sant portrayed in To Die For.

When Gus Van Sant made his experimental feature in response to the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, he said, he didn’t envision a future America with “an endless number of shootings.” ...

When Gus Van Sant began working on Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot more than 20 years ago, the movie looked a whole lot different. Back then, Robin Williams, at the height of his ...

Director Gus Van Sant at home with his Australian shepherd, Leo. Van Sant’s new film, “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot,” deals with alcoholism, addiction and a strange, tragic path ...

At first glance, the subtitle of Katya Tylevich’s new Gus Van Sant biography— The Art of Making Movies —might suggest a lesson in technique from the director of My Own Private Idaho (1991).

"It was like a spontaneous poem," filmmaker Gus Van Sant says of his seven-part collaboration with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele. It's the centerpiece of the virtual festival GUCCI Fest.

There is a rough poetry to the films of Gus Van Sant, a seedy desperation in the ruins that Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix call home in My Own Private Idaho, the gloomy motel rooms of Drugstore ...

Gus Van Sant: It came from a book by Blake Nelson, who’s an Oregon writer. I know him originally from Portland about 10 years ago. He’s been writing young adult novels.