Gus Van Sant - Awards and Nominations

Awards and Nominations

• Career Achievement
  • Provincetown International Film Festival Filmmaker on the Edge Award (2002)

• Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay (with Daniel Yost)
  • National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
  • National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay (with Daniel Yost)
  • New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay (with Daniel Yost)

• My Own Private Idaho (1991)
  • Venice Film Festival Official Selection
  • Toronto Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize

• Good Will Hunting (1997)
  • Berlin Film Festival Official Selection
  • Academy Award nomination for Best Director
  • Directors Guild of America (DGA) nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Motion Pictures
  • Satellite Award nomination for Best Director

• Psycho (1998)
  • Razzie Award for Worst Director

• Finding Forrester (2000)
  • Berlin Film Festival Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas

• Elephant (2003)
  • Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or
  • Cannes Film Festival Prix de la mise en scène

• Last Days (2005)
  • Cannes Film Festival Official Selection

• Paranoid Park (2007)
  • Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
  • Cannes Film Festival "Prix du 60ème anniversaire" (also acknowledging his body of works)

• Milk (2008)
  • Academy Award nomination for Best Director
  • Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nomination for Best Director
  • Directors Guild of America (DGA) nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Motion Pictures
  • Satellite Award nomination for Best Director