Achievement in Directing

MILK

MILK

Gus Van Sant
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the second Academy Award nomination for Gus Van Sant.  He was previously nominated for:

  • GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997) -- Nominee, Directing

FILM SYNOPSIS

As the emerging Gay Pride movement gathers force in the 1970s, it finds a champion and a public face in San Francisco camera store owner Harvey Milk.  Leaving his closeted life in New York behind, Milk moves to California with his lover and soon turns his efforts to politics, campaigning for a spot on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors--a quest that will make him the country's first openly gay man to be elected to public office.
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