Richard Stuart Linklater is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
26 Facts About Richard Linklater
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Richard Linklater is known for films that revolve mainly around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time.
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Richard Linklater 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.
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Richard Linklater won a Golden Globe Award for directing Boyhood.
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In 2015, Richard Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
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Richard Linklater studied at Sam Houston State University, until dropping out to work on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Richard Linklater 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.
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At this point, Richard Linklater realized he wanted to be a filmmaker.
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Richard Linklater used his savings to buy a Super-8 camera, a projector, and editing equipment, and moved to Austin, Texas.
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Richard 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.
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For several years, Richard Linklater made many short films that were exercises and experiments in film techniques.
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Richard Linklater finally completed his first feature, It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, a Super-8 feature that took a year to shoot and another year to edit.
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In 1995, Richard Linklater won the Silver Bear for Best Director for the film Before Sunrise at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Richard Linklater was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film Before Sunset.
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Richard Linklater fared better with the critics with A Scanner Darkly, Me and Orson Welles, and Bernie.
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Richard Linklater was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Before Midnight, the third film in the Before.
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Richard Linklater won the Golden Globes, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture.
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Richard Linklater received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, along with nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture.
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Richard Linklater then directed Where'd You Go, Bernadette, based on the novel by Maria Semple and produced by Annapurna Pictures.
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Richard Linklater was attached to direct an adaptation of Graeme Simsion's novel The Rosie Project that would have starred Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role, but he dropped out of directing when Lawrence dropped out of the project.
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In 2019, it was announced that Richard Linklater would be filming an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along.
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Inspiration for Richard Linklater's work was largely based on his experience viewing the film Raging Bull.
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Richard Linklater was influenced by Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eric Rohmer, Francois Truffaut, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.
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Many of Richard Linklater's films, including Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Tape, and all three installments of the Before Trilogy, take place in a single day.
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Richard Linklater has been partnered with Christina Harrison since the 1990s.
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The oldest, Lorelei Richard Linklater, co-starred in Boyhood as the sister of the main character.