Richard Linklater

United States director

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Biography

Richard Linklater is an American film director, screenwriter and producer born on 30 July 1960 in Houston, Texas. He made a name for himself with his trilogy Before (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight), and won numerous awards for his 12 year film Boyhood, including a Bafta and a Golden Globe for Best Director. He’s upping the ante with Merrily We Roll Along, an adaptation of a musical that is being filmed over 20 years and is due to be released in 2040. Richard Linklater is known for alternating between large-scale productions filmed over several years and more modest films. His filmography includes A Scanner Darkly, Where’d you go Bernadette, Rock Academy, Bernie and Spy Kids.

Filmography

Hit Man 2023
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood 2022
Where'd You Go, Bernadette 2019
Last Flag Flying 2017
Everybody Wants Some!! 2016
Boyhood 2014
Before Midnight 2013
Bernie 2011
Me and Orson Welles 2008
Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach 2008
A Scanner Darkly 2006
Fast Food Nation 2006
Bad News Bears 2005
Before Sunset 2004
School of Rock 2003
Tape 2001
Waking Life 2001
The Newton Boys 1998
SubUrbia 1996
Before Sunrise 1995
Dazed and Confused 1993
Slacker 1988
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books 1998
Woodshock 1985