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      Richard Linklater

      Richard Linklater

      Highest Rated: 100% Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013)

      Lowest Rated: 48% Bad News Bears (2005)

      Birthday: Jul 30, 1960

      Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA

      Following his emergence into the spotlight with "Slacker" (1990), writer-director Richard Linklater was cited by many filmmakers and critics as having helped usher in the independent film movement of the 1990s. Without his manifesto for Generation X - who later were tagged with the sobriquet "slackers" - other independent filmmakers might not have been compelled to make their own movies, including Kevin Smith, who cited Linklater's movie as the key inspiration for making "Clerks" (1994). Linklater followed up with the classic cult comedy, "Dazed and Confused" (1993), which upped the ante for the young filmmaker. Though at this point he could have gone the studio route, Linklater instead chose to remain close to his indie roots with the dialogue-heavy "Before Sunrise" (1995), an engrossing romantic drama that showcased his growing maturity. He managed to repel a few fans with the dark and disturbing "subUrbia" (1996) and the more genre-oriented period crime drama "The Newton Boys" (1998), only to pull them back with "Waking Life" (2001), a groundbreaking film that used distinctive rotoscope animation over live action sequences. After the equally inspired "Tape" (2001), he directed the financial hit "School of Rock" (2003), before returning to familiar ground with the follow-up "Before Sunset" (2004). By the time he helmed "Fast Food Nation" (2006) and "A Scanner Darkly" (2006), Linklater had proven that he could balance the needs of commerce with his own unique creative impulses.

      Highest rated movies

      100% Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
      93% Spy Kids
      82% Slacker

      Photos

      Richard Linklater A SCANNER DARKLY, director Richard Linklater, 2006. ©Warner Independent Pictures DAZED AND CONFUSED, director Richard Linklater, 1993 SCHOOL OF ROCK, Director Richard Linklater, producer Scott Rudin, Jack Black watching playback on set, 2003, (c) Paramount THE BAD NEWS BEARS, Billy Bob Thornton, director Richard Linklater on set, 2005, (c) Paramount TAPE, Robert Sean Leonard, director Richard Linklater on set, 2001 BEFORE SUNRISE, director Richard Linklater on the set, 1995. © Columbia Pictures EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!, from left: director Richard Linklater, Blake Jenner, Wyatt Russell, on set, 2016. ph Van Redin/© Paramount Pictures EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!, from left: director Richard Linklater, Juston Street, on set, 2016. ph: Van Redin/© Paramount Pictures RICHARD LINKLATER: DREAM IS DESTINY, from left, Richard Linklater, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, on set of BOYHOOD, 2014; 2016, ©IFC Films LAST FLAG FLYING, L-R: LAURENCE FISHBURNE, DIRECTOR RICHARD LINKLATER, 2017. PH: WILSON WEBB/©LIONSGATE EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!, from left: Wyatt Russell (beard), Tyler Hoechlin, director Richard Linklater, Glen Powell, Forrest Vickery, on set, 2016. ph Van Redin/© Paramount Pictures LAST FLAG FLYING, L-R: DIRECTOR RICHARD LINKLATER, LAURENCE FISHBURNE, 2017. PH: WILSON WEBB/©LIONSGATE LAST FLAG FLYING, L-R: LAURENCE FISHBURNE DIRECTOR RICHARD LINKLATER ON SET, 2017. PH: WILSON WEBB/©LIONSGATE LAST FLAG FLYING, L-R: RICHARD LINKLATER, BRYAN CRANSTON ON SET, 2017. PH: WILSON WEBB/©LIONSGATE LAST FLAG FLYING, L-R: DIRECTOR RICHARD LINKLATER, BRYAN CRANSTON ON SET, 2017. PH: WILSON WEBB/©LIONSGATE LAST FLAG FLYING, L-R: DIRECTOR RICHARD LINKLATER, LAURENCE FISHBURNE, BRYAN CRANSTON ON SET, 2017. PH: WILSON WEBB/©LIONSGATE LAST FLAG FLYING, L-R: LEE HARRINGTON, DIRECTOR RICHARD LINKLATER, 2017. PH: WILSON WEBB/©LIONSGATE LAST FLAG FLYING, FROM LEFT: PRODUCER JOHN SLOSS, RICHARD LINKLATER, ON SET, 2017. PH: WILSON WEBB/© LIONSGATE EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!, from left: director Richard Linklater, Blake Jenner, on set, 2016. ph Van Redin/© Paramount Pictures

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Clemente Executive Producer - 2024
      97% 93% Hit Man Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      - 2023
      91% 82% Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      - 2022
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Shouting Down Midnight Executive Producer - 2022
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Pushback Producer - 2020
      100% 36% J.R. "Bob" Dobbs & The Church of the SubGenius Self - 2019
      51% 74% Where'd You Go, Bernadette Director,
      Screenwriter
      $9.2M 2019
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Another Day at the Office Rick (Character) - 2019
      76% 72% Last Flag Flying Director,
      Screenwriter
      $960.3K 2017
      94% 58% Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny Self - 2016
      87% 68% Everybody Wants Some!! Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $3.4M 2016
      No Score Yet 62% I Dream Too Much Executive Producer - 2015
      73% No Score Yet Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles Self $15.5K 2014
      97% 80% Boyhood Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $25.4M 2014
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Boyhood: Trailer Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      - 2014
      100% 27% Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater Unknown (Character) - 2013
      98% 82% Before Midnight Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $8.1M 2013
      88% 73% Bernie Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $9.2M 2011
      66% 43% Great Directors Self $17.9K 2009
      86% 61% Me and Orson Welles Director,
      Producer
      $1.2M 2008
      No Score Yet 50% Inning by Inning: Portrait of a Coach Director - 2008
      No Score Yet 53% Registered Sex Offender Principal Mallard (Character) - 2008
      49% 42% Fast Food Nation Director,
      Writer
      $1.0M 2006
      68% 74% A Scanner Darkly Director,
      Screenwriter
      $5.5M 2006
      48% 46% Bad News Bears Director $32.9M 2005
      94% 92% Before Sunset Director,
      Screenwriter
      $5.8M 2004
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Live From Shiva's Dance Floor Director - 2003
      92% 64% The School of Rock Director $81.3M 2003
      77% 76% Tape Director $490.5K 2001
      81% 87% Waking Life Director,
      Writer
      $2.9M 2001
      93% 47% Spy Kids Cool Spy (Character) $112.7M 2001
      65% 44% The Newton Boys Director,
      Screenwriter
      $10.3M 1998
      68% 68% Suburbia Director $656.2K 1996
      100% 93% Before Sunrise Director,
      Screenwriter
      $4.7M 1995
      93% 90% Dazed and Confused Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer
      $8.0M 1993
      82% 77% Slacker Should Have Stayed at Bus Station (Character),
      Director,
      Producer
      - 1991
      No Score Yet 33% It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books Unknown (Character),
      Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer,
      Cinematographer,
      Film Editing
      - 1988

      TV

      Credit
      100% No Score Yet God Save Texas Executive Producer,
      Director
      2024
      No Score Yet No Score Yet That Animal Rescue Show Executive Producer 2020
      No Score Yet No Score Yet School of Rock Executive Producer 2016-2018
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Call With Carson Daly Guest 2017
      No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2016
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2016
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Tavis Smiley Guest 2015
      No Score Yet 9% The View Guest 2015
      No Score Yet 36% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2014
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Daily Show Guest 2014
      80% No Score Yet Up to Speed Director,
      Producer
      2012
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Colbert Report Guest 2006