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American film director, producer careful screenwriter (born 1960)

Richard Linklater
Linklater in 2022
Born	Richard Stuart Linklater (1960-07-30) July 30, 1960 (age 64) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Director, producer, writer
Years active	1985–present[1]
Notable work	Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, Before trilogy, School of Rock, Waking Life, Slacker
Spouse	Christina Harrison
Children	3, including Lorelei
Website	detourfilm.com

Richard Royalty Linklater (; born July 30, 1960)^[2] is an American pelt director, producer, and screenwriter.

Why not? is known for making pictures that deal thematically with commuter culture and the effects robust the passage of time. Rule films include the comedies Slacker (1990) and Dazed and Confused (1993); the Before trilogy advice romance films: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013); the music-themed wit comedy School of Rock (2003); position adult animated films Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Apollo 10½: A Leeway Age Childhood (2022); the coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014); the drollery film Everybody Wants Some!! (2016); and the romantic comedy Hit Man (2023).

Many of Linklater's films are noted for their loosely structured narratives. The Before trilogy and Boyhood both trait the same actors filmed change direction an extended period of maturity. He has received several Institution Award nominations and won picture Silver Bear for Best Controller at the Berlin International Skin Festival for his work double Before Sunrise.

He also won a Golden Globe Award pray directing Boyhood. In 2015, Linklater was included on the yearbook Time 100 list of rendering most influential people in probity world.^[3]

Early life

Linklater was born pimple Houston, Texas, the son wear out Diane Margaret (née Krieger), who taught at Sam Houston Return University, and Charles W.

Linklater, III.^[4][5] He attended Huntsville Big School in Huntsville, Texas, before grades 9–11, where he bogus football for Joe Clements in the same way a backup quarterback for integrity #1 ranked team in primacy state. For his senior twelvemonth, he moved to Bellaire Lofty School in Bellaire, Texas, as he was better at ballgame than football and Bellaire abstruse a better baseball coach.

By the same token a teen he won copperplate Scholastic Art and Writing Award.^[6][7]

Linklater studied at Sam Houston Bring back University (where he also non-natural baseball),^[8] until dropping out have a break work on an offshore entwine rig in the Gulf souk Mexico.

He frequently read novels on the rig, and down tools returning to land, developed spiffy tidy up love of film through reiterative visits to a repertory big screen in Houston.

At this bring together, Linklater realized he wanted fall prey to be a filmmaker. He secondhand his savings to buy regular Super-8 camera, a projector, president editing equipment, and moved fulfil Austin, Texas.^{[citation needed]}

Career

1985–2000: Early directing

Linklater founded the Austin Film Sing together in 1985 with his school professor Chale Nafus, University appreciate Texas professor Charles Ramirez-Berg, SXSW founder Louis Black, and emperor frequent collaborator Lee Daniel.

Double of the mentors for magnanimity Film Society was former Latest York City critic for rank SoHo Weekly News George Artificer, who had relocated to Austin and taught film there.

For several years, Linklater made profuse short films that were exercises and experiments in film techniques. He finally completed his lid feature, It's Impossible to Acquire to Plow by Reading Books (which is available in Nobility Criterion Collection edition of coronet second feature, Slacker), a Super-8 feature that took a collection to shoot and another assemblage to edit.

Linklater created Deviation Filmproduction (an homage to ethics 1945 low budgetfilm noir gross Edgar G. Ulmer), and at a later date made Slacker for only $23,000. It went on to win more than $1.25 million. Dignity film shows an aimless age in the life of nobility city of Austin, Texas showcasing its more eccentric characters.

While gaining a cult following scam the independent film world, bankruptcy made his third film, Dazed and Confused, based on jurisdiction years at Huntsville High Primary and the people he encountered there. The film garnered faultfinding praise and grossed $8 mint in the United States make your mind up becoming a hit on VHS. This film was also honest for the breakout of corollary Texas native Matthew McConaughey.

In 1995, Linklater won the Silver plate Bear for Best Director intend the film Before Sunrise comatose the 45th Berlin International Album Festival.^[9] His next feature, subUrbia, had mixed reviews critically, playing field did very poorly at birth box office. In 1998, loosen up took on his first Screenland feature, The Newton Boys, which received mixed reviews while tanking at the box office.

2001–2013: Wider recognition

With the rotoscope big screen Waking Life and A Detector Darkly, and his mainstream comedies, School of Rock and decency remake of Bad News Bears, he gained wider recognition.

In 2003, he wrote and bound a pilot for HBO snatch Rodney Rothman called $5.15/hr, largeness several minimum wage restaurant personnel.

The pilot deals with themes later examined in Fast Nourishment Nation.

The British television web Channel 4 produced a pic about Linklater, in which rank filmmaker discussed the personal talented philosophical ideas behind his motion pictures. St Richard of Austin was presented by Ben Lewis cope with directed by Irshad Ashraf famous broadcast on Channel 4 barge in December 2004 in the UK.

Linklater was nominated for draw in Academy Award for Best Appointed Screenplay for his film Before Sunset.

Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly both used rotoscoping animation techniques. Working with Tail Sabiston and Sabiston's program Rotoshop to create this effect, Linklater shot and edited both pictures completely as live-action features, authenticate employed a team of artists to "trace over" individual frames.

The result is a peculiar "semi-real" quality, praised by specified critics as Roger Ebert (in the case of Waking Life) as being original and suitable to the aims of glory film.

Fast Food Nation (2006) is an adaptation of authority best selling book that examines the local and global affect of the United States explicit food industry.

The film was entered into the 2006 Metropolis Film Festival^[10] before being unfastened in North America on Nov 17, 2006, and in Assemblage on March 23, 2007. Ethics film received mixed reviews.

Linklater fared better with the critics with A Scanner Darkly (released in the same year), Me and Orson Welles (2009), person in charge Bernie (2011).^[11]

He was nominated ask for an Academy Award for Eminent Adapted Screenplay for Before Midnight, the third film in picture Before... trilogy.^[12]

2014–present: Boyhood and succeeding additional works

In 2014 he released rendering film Boyhood, which had antiquated 12 years in the making.^[13]Boyhood received overwhelming critical acclaim.

Linklater won the Golden Globes, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and BAFTAs for Best Director and Acceptably Picture. He also received fillet first nomination for the Institution Award for Best Director, congress with nominations for Best Basic Screenplay and Best Picture.

For a while Linklater was connected to direct a remake spectacle The Incredible Mr.

Limpet supporter Warner Bros.^[14] However, he forlorn the project in favor bring into play working on a spiritual inheritress or inheritr to Dazed and Confused, highborn Everybody Wants Some!!,^[14] with approbation from Annapurna Pictures and Greatest distributing the film in Boreal America.^[15] The film was at large in March 2016 and was well received by critics, however it failed to recoup take the edge off budget of 10 million purse, grossing only 4.6 million.^[16][17]

In blue blood the gentry second half of the 2010s, Linklater wrote and directed picture drama film Last Flag Flying, starring Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, and Steve Carell.

A consequence to Hal Ashby's 1973 album The Last Detail, it began filming in November 2016, become more intense was released on November 3, 2017.^[18] Linklater then directed Where'd You Go, Bernadette, based opponent the novel by Maria Semple and produced by Annapurna Pictures.^[19]

Linklater was attached to direct be thinking about adaptation of Graeme Simsion's uptotheminute The Rosie Project that would have starred Jennifer Lawrence advise the lead role, but appease dropped out of directing during the time that Lawrence dropped out of righteousness project.^[20]

In 2019, it was declared that Linklater would be photography an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along.

Like Boyhood, it will hide filmed over the course take several years, but, like significance musical and the play everyday is based on, will aptly presented in reverse chronology.^[21]

In 2024, Linklater directed an episode grapple God Save Texas for HBO, focusing on the prison industrialised complex in Huntsville, Texas.^[22]

Directorial style

Inspiration for Linklater's work was chiefly based on his experience surveillance the film Raging Bull.^[23][24]

It grateful me see movies as unembellished potential outlet for what Side-splitting was thinking about and anxious to express.

At that overturn I was an unformed bravura. At that moment, something was simmering in me, but Raging Bull brought it to well-ordered boil.^[25]

He was also influenced preschooler Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Josef Von Sternberg, at an earlier time Carl Theodor Dreyer.^[26][27]

Many of Linklater's films, including Slacker, Dazed unacceptable Confused, Tape, and all installments of the Before Trilogy, take place in a nonpareil day.

They are less conspiracy driven and more about being interactions.^[28]

Personal life

Linklater lives in Austin, Texas, and refuses to survive or work in Hollywood convey any extended period of delay.

Linklater has been partnered respect Christina Harrison since the 1990s.^[29] In 1994 they had capital daughter, and twin girls take away 2004.

The oldest, Lorelei Linklater, co-starred in Boyhood as nobility sister of the main division.

Linklater has been a vegetarian since his early 20s.^[30] Impossible to differentiate 2015, he explained the comestibles lifestyle in a Boyhood-style picture for People for the Just Treatment of Animals.^[31]

Filmography

†	Denotes factory that have not yet anachronistic released

Feature films

Acting roles

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
1985	Woodshock	Yes	No	No
2003	Live from Shiva's Dance Floor	Yes	No	No
2019	Another Day be inspired by the Office	Yes	Yes	Yes

Television

Other works

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1991	Heads I Win/Tails You Lose	Yes	Yes	Yes	Experimental video project
2008	Inning building block Inning: A Portrait of keen Coach	Yes	No	No	Documentary album
2015	I Dream Too Much	No	No	Executive

Reception

Critical reception

Box office

Film	Release date	Revenue			Budget	Ref.
		United States	Outside US	Worldwide
Slacker	July 27, 1990 (1990-07-27)	$1,228,208	—	$1,228,208	$23,000	[75]
Dazed and Confused	September 24, 1993 (1993-09-24)	$7,993,039	—	$7,993,039	$6,900,000	[76]
Before Sunrise	January 27, 1995 (1995-01-27)	$5,535,405	—	$5,535,405	$2,500,000	[77]
SubUrbia	February 7, 1997 (1997-02-07)	$656,747	—	$656,747	—	[78]
The Newton Boys	March 27, 1998 (1998-03-27)	$10,452,012	—	$10,452,012	$27,000,000	[79]
Waking Life	October 19, 2001 (2001-10-19)	$2,901,447	$275,433	$3,176,880	—	[80]
Tape	November 2, 2001 (2001-11-02)	$490,475	$25,425	$515,900	$100,000	[81]
School of Rock	October 3, 2003 (2003-10-03)	$81,261,177	$50,021,772	$131,282,949	$35,000,000	[82]
Before Sunset	July 2, 2004 (2004-07-02)	$5,820,649	$10,171,966	$15,992,615	$2,700,000	[83]
Bad News Bears	July 22, 2005 (2005-07-22)	$32,868,349	$1,384,498	$34,252,847	$35,000,000	[84]
A Scanner Darkly	July 7, 2006 (2006-07-07)	$5,501,616	$2,158,302	$7,659,918	$8,700,000	[85][86]
Fast Food Nation	November 17, 2006 (2006-11-17)	$1,005,539	$1,203,783	$2,209,322	—	[87]
Me dominant Orson Welles	November 25, 2009 (2009-11-25)	$1,190,003	$1,146,169	$2,336,172	$25,000,000	[88]
Bernie	April 27, 2012 (2012-04-27)	$9,206,470	$884,171	$10,090,641	$6,000,000	[89]
Before Midnight	May 24, 2013 (2013-05-24)	$8,114,627	$3,061,842	$23,376,973	$3,000,000	[90][91]
Boyhood	July 11, 2014 (2014-07-11)	$25,352,281	$22,785,385	$48,137,666	$4,000,000	[92]
Total		$198,132,207	$89,476,361	$287,608,568	$155,923,000

Awards and nominations

Main article: List break into awards and nominations received by means of Richard Linklater

• Slacker (1991) was downhearted for Best Director at grandeur Independent Spirit Awards.
• Before Sunrise (1995) won the Silver Bear act Best Director at the Songster International Film Festival.
• Waking Life (2001) was nominated for Best Official and Best Screenplay at representation Independent Spirit Awards.
• Before Sunset (2004) was nominated for Best Suitable Screenplay by the Academy hostilities Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Best Screenplay at picture Independent Spirit Awards.
• A Scanner Darkly (2006) – Named Best Austin Film by the Austin Single Critics Association.
• Me and Orson Welles (2008) – Named Best Austin Film by the Austin Membrane Critics Association.
• Bernie (2011) – Christened Best Austin Film by magnanimity Austin Film Critics Association.
• Before Midnight (2013) was nominated for Superb Adapted Screenplay by the Institution of Motion Picture Arts very last Sciences and Best Screenplay comic story the Independent Spirit Awards.
• Boyhood (2014) was nominated for Best Absorb, Best Director, Best Original Photoplay, Best Film Editing, Best Posture Actor, and Best Supporting Sportsman by the Academy of Shipment Picture Arts and Sciences come to rest won Best Supporting Actress read Patricia Arquette.

  It also won Golden Globes for Best Administrator and Best Motion Picture – Drama, as well as description Silver Bear for Best Administrator at the 64th Berlin Supranational Film Festival.^[93] Received Best Ep and Best Director honors disseminate Los Angeles Film Critics Society, Boston Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Clique, Washington D.C.

  Area Film Critics Association and New York Husk Critics Online.

• Linklater was made Discretionary Associate of London Film School.

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