Richard Linklater

At 63 years old, Richard Linklater has this physical status:

Richard Stuart Linklater (born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker.

Linklater is best known for his realistic and natural humanist films, which are mainly based on suburban life and the passage of time.

Before sunrise (1990), the observational comedy film Dazed and Confused (1993); the come-of-age comedy film Before Sunrise (2001); and Before Midnight (2003); and the epic coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2004); and the comedy film Everybody Wants Somebody Who Wants Some! (2016). Linklater was listed on the annual Time 100 list of the world's most influential people in 2015.

Many of his films are known for their loosely structured storylines; several of his films, including Before... films and Boyhood, were shot over a period of years.

Early life

Diane Margaret (née Krieger), who taught at Sam Houston State University, and Charles W. Linklater, III, were born in Houston, Texas. He attended Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Texas, from 9 to 11, where he competed for Joe Clements as a backup quarterback for the state's top ranked team. He transferred to Bellaire, Texas, because he was better at baseball than football, and Bellaire was fortunate to have a great baseball coach. Linklater was a winner of the Scholastic Art and Writing Award as a youth.

Linklater attended Sam Houston State University (where he also played baseball), before heading out to work on a Gulf of Mexico offshore oil rig. He read novels on the rig often and, on returning to land, developed a passion for film through repeated visits to a repertory cinema in Houston. Linklater decided he wanted to be a film maker at this point. He used his savings to buy a Super-8 camera, a projector, and editing software and moved to Austin, Texas.

Personal life

Linklater lives in Austin, Texas, and he has refused to live or work in Hollywood for a lengthy period of time.

Since the 1990s, Linklater has been working with Christina Harrison. They had a daughter and twin girls in 2004. Lorelei Linklater, the oldest, appeared in Boyhood as the sister of the main character.

Since his early 20s, Linklater has been a vegetarian. In a Boyhood-style documentary for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, he outlined the nutritional habits.

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Career

In 1985, Linklater, a college professor, William Ramirez-Berg, SXSW founder Louis Black, and his frequent collaborator Lee Daniel formed the Austin Film Society. Former New York City critic George Morris, a SoHo Weekly News reporter, had moved to Austin and taught film there, and was one of the SoHo Weekly News' mentors.

Linklater produced many short films that were based on experiments and films in filmmaking for many years. He completed his first feature, It's Impossible to Plow by Reading Books, which is available in his second feature, Slacker), a Super-8 film that took a year to shoot and another year to edit. In the sense that it establishes the bulk of Linklater's preoccupations, the film is significant. Although the film explores the concept of traveling with no particular goal in mind, it follows his trademark style of minimal camera movements and lack of plot. In future projects, these idiosyncrasies will be explored in greater detail.

Linklater created Detour Filmproduction (an homage to Edgar G. Ulmer's 1945 low budget film noir) and then made Slacker for only $23,000. It's now worth more than $1.25 million. The film portrays an aimless day in Austin, Texas, showcasing its more eccentric characters.

Dazed and Confused, his third film, gaining a following in the independent film industry, was based on his years at Huntsville High School and the people he encountered there. Although the film became a hit on VHS, it attracted critical praise and grossing $8 million in the United States. Matthew McConaughey, a fellow Texas migrant, was also responsible for his exode.

At the 45th Berlin International Film Festival in 1995, Linklater received the Silver Bear for Best Director for the film Before Sunrise. SubUrbia, his upcoming film, received mixed feedback and did a poor job at the box office, and it did not do well at the box office. He released The Newton Boys, his first Hollywood film, in 1998, which received mixed feedback when it was tanking at the box office.

His rotoscope films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, along with his mainstream comedies, School of Rock, and the revival of Bad News Bears earned him more attention.

Rodney Rothman, a writer and producer for HBO, earned a $60/hr average wage restaurant employees in 2003. The pilots are based on Fast Food Nation's theme.

In which the filmmaker explored the philosophical and psychological theories behind his films, the British television network Channel 4 produced a documentary about Linklater, in which the filmmaker addressed the filmmaker's personal and philosophical assumptions. In December 2004, Ben Lewis and directed by Irshad Ashraf, a British broadcaster, announced St Richard of Austin.

For his film Before Sunset, Linklater was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Waking Life and A Scanner Both used rotoscoping animation techniques. Linklater shot and edited both films completely as live-action films, then used a team of artists to "trace over" individual frames, after working with Bob Sabiston and Sabiston's program Rotoshop to achieve this result. The result is a distinct "true" quality that has been praised by such commentators as Roger Ebert (in the case of Waking Life) as being original and well-suited to the film's objectives.

Fast Food Nation (2006) is an expansion of the best selling book that investigates the United States' fast food industry's local and international presence. The film was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in North America and Europe on March 23, 2007. Mixed reviews were given to the film.

With A Scanner Darkly (both released in the same year), Me and Orson Welles (2009), and Bernie (2011), the linklater fared better with the critics.

Before Midnight, the third film in the Before... trilogy, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

In 2014, he released Boyhood, the film that had been 12 years in the making. Boyhood received a slew of skepticism. Linklater was nominated for Best Director and Best Picture at the Golden Globes, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and the BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. Along with awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, he received his first nomination for Best Director.

Linklater was hired by Warner Bros. to produce a recreation of The Incredible Mr. Limp. However, he ended the scheme in favour of working on a spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused, titled Everybody Wants Some! The film is distributed in North America by Annapurna Pictures and Paramount, with support from Annapurna Pictures and Paramount. The film was released in March 2016 and was well-received by critics, but it was unable to recover its investment of ten million dollars, grossing only 4.6 million.

Linklater wrote and directed Last Flag Flying, a drama film starring Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, and Steve Carell in the second half of the 2010s. It began filming in November 2016 and was released on November 3, 2017. It was a sequel to Hal Ashby's 1973 film The Last Detail. Where'd You Go, Bernadette, was then directed by Linklater, based on Maria Semple's book and produced by Annapurna Pictures.

Linklater had been contracted to direct a version of Graeme Simson's book The Rosie Project, which would have star Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role, but he had to drop out of directing when Lawrence failed out of the project.

In 2019, it was announced that Linklater would film an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along. It will be shot over the course of several years like Boyhood, but in reverse chronology, the musical and the play it is based on will be shown.

Linklater's inspiration for his film was largely based on his exposure to Raging Bull.

He was also influenced by Robert Bresson, Yasujir Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.

Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Tape, and all three three parts of the Before Trilogy are included in a single day in many of Linklater's films, including Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Tape, and all three versions of the Before Trilogy. They are less concerned about plot driven activities and more about human interactions.

In several of his films, Ethan Hawke and Matthew McConaughey have appeared. Jack Black, Julie Delpy, Ellar Coltrane, Blake Jenner, Blake Jenner, Adam Goldberg, Parker Posey, Glen Powell, Rory Cochrane, Margaret Arquette, and Laurence Fishburne were among the many actors to have appeared in more than one film.

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Awards and nominations

• Slacker (1991) was nominated for Best Director at the Independent Spirit Awards.
• Before Sunrise (1995) won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival.
• Waking Life (2001) was nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.
• Before Sunset (2004) was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.
• A Scanner Darkly (2006) – Named Best Austin Film by the Austin Film Critics Association.
• Me and Orson Welles (2008) – Named Best Austin Film by the Austin Film Critics Association.
• Bernie (2011) – Named Best Austin Film by the Austin Film Critics Association.
• Before Midnight (2013) was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.
• Boyhood (2014) was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and won Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette. It also won Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Motion Picture – Drama, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Received Best Film and Best Director honors from Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Online.
• Linklater was made Honorary Associate of London Film School.