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2008 film by Gus Van Sant

This article is about the 2008 American film. For the Turkish film, see Milk (2008 Turkish film). For the Russian film, see Milk (2021 film).

Milk is a 2008 American biographicaldrama film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Victor Garber.

Attempts to put Milk's life to film followed a 1984 documentary of his life and the aftermath of his assassination, titled The Times of Harvey Milk, which was loosely based upon Randy Shilts's 1982 biography, The Mayor of Castro Street (the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1984, and was awarded Special Jury Prize at the first Sundance Film Festival, among other awards).

Various scripts were