Linklater founded the Austin Film Society in 1985 with his college professor Chale Nafus, University of Texas professor Charles Ramirez-Berg, SXSW founder Louis Black, and his frequent collaborator Lee Daniel. He used his savings to buy a Super-8 camera, a projector, and editing equipment, and moved to Austin, Texas.Ĭareer 1985–2000: Early directing At this point, Linklater realized he wanted to be a filmmaker. He frequently read novels on the rig, and upon returning to land, developed a love of film through repeated visits to a repertory cinema in Houston. Linklater studied at Sam Houston State University (where he also played baseball), until dropping out to work on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. As a teen, Linklater won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award. For his senior year, he moved to Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas because he was better at baseball than football and Bellaire had a better baseball coach. He attended Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Texas, during grades 9–11, where he played football for Joe Clements as a backup quarterback for the #1 ranked team in the state. Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Diane Margaret (née Krieger), who taught at Sam Houston State University, and Charles W. In 2015, Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He also won a Golden Globe Award for directing Boyhood, which is one of only nine movies to receive a perfect score on Metacritic. He has received several Academy Award nominations and won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for his work on Before Sunrise. The Before trilogy and Boyhood both feature the same actors filmed over an extended period of years. Many of his films are noted for their loosely structured narrative. Linklater is known to have a distinct style and method of filmmaking. His films include the comedies Slacker (1990) and Dazed and Confused (1993) the Before trilogy of romance films, Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013) the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003) the adult animated films Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (2022) the coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014) and the comedy film Everybody Wants Some!! (2016). He is known for making films that deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. Richard Stuart Linklater ( / ˈ l ɪ ŋ k l eɪ t ər/ born July 30, 1960) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, Before trilogy, School of Rock, Waking Life, Slacker
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