Richard Linklater
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Richard Linklater is an American director born in Houston, Texas, celebrated for experimental approaches to time, conversation, and the texture of ordinary life. Dazed and Confused and Slacker established his loose, hangout-style ensemble filmmaking rooted in his native Texas, while the Before trilogy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight, filmed nearly a decade apart, followed a single couple's relationship unfold in real time across eighteen years. Boyhood, filmed incrementally over twelve years with the same young actor aging on screen, became one of the most formally ambitious projects in film history and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. School of Rock showed a lighter, more commercial register within his prolific output, and Linklater's sustained fascination with the passage of real time has made him one of American cinema's most formally inventive chroniclers of everyday experience.
Richard Linklater
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Richard Linklater is an American director born in Houston, Texas, celebrated for experimental approaches to time, conversation, and the texture of ordinary life. Dazed and Confused and Slacker established his loose, hangout-style ensemble filmmaking rooted in his native Texas, while the Before trilogy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight, filmed nearly a decade apart, followed a single couple's relationship unfold in real time across eighteen years. Boyhood, filmed incrementally over twelve years with the same young actor aging on screen, became one of the most formally ambitious projects in film history and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. School of Rock showed a lighter, more commercial register within his prolific output, and Linklater's sustained fascination with the passage of real time has made him one of American cinema's most formally inventive chroniclers of everyday experience.
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Before Sunrise
1995
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Hit Man
2024
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The School of Rock
2003
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Blue Moon
2025
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Before Sunset
2004
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Boyhood
2014
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Nouvelle Vague
2025
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Dazed and Confused
1993
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Before Midnight
2013
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Bad News Bears
2005
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A Scanner Darkly
2006
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Everybody Wants Some!!
2016
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Waking Life
2001
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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
2022
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019
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Slacker
1990
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Last Flag Flying
2017
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SubUrbia
1997
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Fast Food Nation
2006
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Me and Orson Welles
2008
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Bernie
2012
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Tape
2001
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The Newton Boys
1998
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It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
1988
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Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Richard Linklater and where are they from?
Richard Linklater is 66 years old, born on July 30, 1960 in Houston, Texas, USA.
What are the most famous roles of Richard Linklater?
Richard Linklater is best known for directing The School of Rock, Boyhood, Before Sunrise.
How many movies has Richard Linklater directed?
Over a 41-year career (since 1985), Richard Linklater has directed or written 25 films and worked on 0 TV shows.
What was Richard Linklater's first movie?
The career of Richard Linklater began with Untitled Richard Linklater John Brinkley Project ().
What is Richard Linklater's most recent movie or series?
Richard Linklater's most recent release is Blue Moon, which premiered on October 17, 2025.
Richard Linklater
1960-07-30 · Houston, Texas, USA
Richard Linklater (/ˈlɪŋkleɪtər/; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker. He is known for making films that deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. In 2015, Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
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 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022); the coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014); the comedy 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 feature the same actors filmed over an extended period of years. He has received five Academy Award nominations and won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Before Sunrise. He also won a Golden Globe Award for directing Boyhood.Richard Linklater, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.