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With all the Academy Award buzz around Milk, Gus Van Sant might wanna clear his schedule for Oscar night.

In the following excerpt from a recent interview he gave ComingSoon.net, the director talks about getting involved with the movie...

Well, I'd been involved in a project in 1993 that was Oliver Stone directing and he decided not to direct it. That's really where I heard about the project, through Rob Epstein, who had made "The Times of Harvey Milk." At that time, then yeah, there was a lot of study and I lived with Cleve Jones, and I met some of the people that were the real characters and lived close enough to the Castro to sort of soak up its energy.

It was '93, so it was a lot different than it is now. It's actually changed in those ten years quite a bit, the Castro itself, in the last fifteen years. There are condos, there's families, a lot of straight people. It's not the same. Even in '93, it had a little bit more of a connection to '78. I mean, it was devastated by the AIDS epidemic, but the research I did was all the way through the last ten or so years.

Count on an Oscar nomination for Sean Penn's portrayal of Harvey Milk.

Look for Sean Penn to be nominated for Best Actor and the film Milk to be nominated for Best Picture at the next Academy Awards.

What makes this drama so noteworthy? Check out our complete Milk movie review and see for yourself.

Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk in the upcoming drama, Milk.

The film is generation significant Oscar buzz. Watch the trailer now:

While movie goers can hardly wait for Emile Hirsch's next film, a rebooting of the Speed Racer cartoon, the young actor is equally excited for a flick that possess a few less special effects.

"I just did this film called Milk with Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant about Harvey Milk," Hirsch recently told MTV, providing early details on what many are already calling this year's Oscar movie to beat. "I think it's going to be a really good film."

In the the current, politically charged climate, Milk may receive extra attention when it comes out in November.

"Not many people know the story yet," said Hirsch, who plays real-life gay activist Cleve Jones, of of California's first openly gay elected official.

"Milk represented change for a lot of people, and was a catalyst to that," Hirsch concluded "And his eventual assassination similarly mirrored Martin Luther King."

Here is the first photo of Sean Penn from the upcoming Gus Van Sant flick, Milk.

Penn portrays Harvey Milk in the biopic; back in 1977, he became California's first openly gay official when he was voted to the city supervisor's board of San Francisco.

Also starring in the film are Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare.