Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater's credits include
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988);
Slacker (1991);
Dazed and Confused (1993);
Before Sunrise (1995);
Suburbia (1997);
The Newton Boys (1998);
Walking Life (2001);
Tape (2001);
Live From Shiva's Dance Floor (2003); School of Rock
(2003); Before Sunset
(2004); $5.15/Hr.
(2004) (TV); Bad News Bears
(2005); A Scanner Darkly
(2006); Fast Food Nation
(2006); Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach
(2008); Me and Orson Welles
(2009); Bernie" (2011).
Linklater also serves as the Artistic Director for the Austin Film Society, which he founded in 1985, to showcase films from around the world that were not typically shown in Austin. The Austin Film Society has given out over $1,000,000 in grants to Texas filmmakers and in 1999, received the DGA Honor which was given by the Directors Guild of America in recognition of its support of the arts.
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Richard Linklater Facts
Birth Name | Richard Stuart Linklater |
Occupation | Director, Writer |
Birthday | July 30, 1960 (63) |
Sign | Leo |
Birthplace | Houston, Texas, USA |
Selected Filmography
Everybody Wants Some!! |
Before Sunrise |
Before Sunset |
School of Rock |
Dazed and Confused |
The Before Trilogy |
Bernie |
Before Midnight |
Boyhood |
A Scanner Darkly |
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