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RECENT CREDITS

Milk (FILM) Nov. 26, 2008

Entourage (TV) Nov. 23, 2008

Paranoid Park (FILM) Mar. 7, 2008

Paris, I Love You (FILM) May. 4, 2007

Wild Tigers I Have Known (FILM) Feb. 28, 2007

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HIGHLIGHTS

2009 Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing (“Milk”)

2008 Directed a biography of openly gay San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk (played by Sean Penn), titled "Milk"

2008 Nominated for the 2008 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film (“Milk”)

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Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)

Role

Category

Director, Editor

Film

Howl

Executive Producer

Film

Untitled (Columbia Pictures/Gus Van Sant Project)

Director

Film

What's Wrong With Virginia?

Executive Producer

Film

Untitled (Andy Warhol Project)

Screenplay

Film

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Director

Film

How Starbucks Saved My Life

Director

Film

Milk 2008

Director, Rerecording Mixer

Film

Paranoid Park 2008

Director, Screenplay, Editor

Film

Paris, I Love You 2007

Director, Screenplay

Film

Wild Tigers I Have Known 2007

Executive Producer

Film

Last Days 2005 -Phone Voice

Director, Screenplay, Actor, Editor

Film

Tarnation 2004

Executive Producer

Film

Entourage 2004 -Himself

Actor

Return to Queens Blvd (2008) -Himself

Actor

TV Episode

Elephant 2003

Director, Screenplay, Editor

Film

Gerry 2003

Director, Screenplay

Film

Speedway Junky 2001

Executive Producer

Film

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001 -Himself

Actor

Film

Finding Forrester 2000 -rerecording mixer

Director, Rerecording

Film

The Untitled Jay Lacopo Project 1999

Actor

The Director's Vision: Hollywood's Best Discuss Their Craft 1998

Actor

Psycho 1998

Director, Producer

Film

Good Will Hunting 1997 -rerecording mixer

Director, Rerecording

Film

Guns on the Clackamas 1995 -Himself

Actor

Film

To Die For 1995

Director

Film

Kids 1995

Executive Producer

Film

Hi-Octane 1995 -Guest

Actor

Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day 1995

Special Thanks

Film

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 1994

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Film

American Flash Cards 1992

Director

My Own Private Idaho 1991

Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer

Film

Mala Noche 1989

Director, Producer, Screenplay, Editor, Song Performer

Film

Champlin on Film 1989

Actor

Drugstore Cowboy 1989

Director, Screenplay, Screenplay

Film

Fabulous! The Story Of Queer Cinema -Cast

Actor

Film

Five Ways to Kill Yourself

Director

Film

Chacun son cinema

Director

Film

Junior

Director

Film

Ken Death Gets Out of Jail

Director, Producer, Screenplay

Film

Orientations - Christopher Doyle: Stirred Not Shaken

Actor

Film

My Friend

Director

Film

My New Friend

Director

Film

Switzerland

Director

Film

Property

Sound

Film

The Discipline of D.E.

Director

Film

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Highlights

2009 Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing (“Milk”)

2008 Directed a biography of openly gay San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk (played by Sean Penn), titled "Milk"

2008 Nominated for the 2008 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film (“Milk”)

2007 Helmed "Paranoid Park" a film about a teenage skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard; earned an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Director

2005 Helmed "Last Days," based loosely on the final hours of Kurt Cobain

2003 Wrote and directed "Elephant", which was inspired by the mass shootings at Columbine High School in April 1999; nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Director

2002 Directed "Gerry" which starred and was written by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck; nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Director

2000 Directed Sean Connery in "Finding Forrester," about an afro-american teen writing prodigy who finds a mentor in a reclusive author

1998 Signed to make a color version of "Psycho" using Joseph Stefano's original script

1997 Helmed the mainstream drama "Good Will Hunting"; received first Best Director Academy Award nomination

1995 First film as executive producer, Larry Clark's "Kids"

1995 Directed first film he did not write, "To Die For"

1993 Signed a contract with The Gap to film commercials

1993 Helmed an adaptation of Tom Robbins' novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"

1992 First directed for TV with the short, "Thanksgiving Prayer," a segment of the PBS compilation special, "American Flash Cards"

1991 First original feature film screenplay, "My Own Private Idaho" (also directed)

1989 First film with a sizable budget, "Drugstore Cowboy," made for between $4 and $7 million; also first feature in color

1985 First widely acclaimed feature, "Mala Noche" (released theatrically 1989); also wrote, edited, produced

1983 Returned to Portland, OR to write and direct films, commercials and music videos; also briefly taught film production at the Oregon Art Institute

1981 - 1983 Moved to New York; created commercials for a Madison Avenue advertising firm

1978 Received credit for the sound on the comedy film, "Property"

1976 Worked as an assistant to Ken Shapiro ("Groove Tube"), working on comedy scripts

1968 As an art student, discovered the work of Andy Warhol; inspired to start making films

1967 Had a summer advertising job on NYC's Madison Ave at age 16

Moved extensively around the country with his parents as a child before settling in Darien, CT

Shot his first painterly, animated films with an 8 millimeter Kodak

Family moved to Portland, OR when Van Sant was 17

Collaborated with future cinematographer Eric Edwards on the high-school film project, "The Happy Organ"

Feature film directing debut, "Alice in Hollywood," an attempted screwball comedy that was never released

Moved back in with parents back in Darien, CT and worked for his father in a New Jersey warehouse

Short film, "The Discipline of D.E." debuted at the New York Film Festival