Yahoo: Richard Linklater Is Fulfilling More Baseball Dreams by Casting Glen Powell as Lou Gehrig
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Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater is an American filmmaker. He is known for making films which deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award, a Silver Bear, a César Award, and five Academy Award nominations.
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entertainment · American filmmaker (born 1960) · screenwriter · film director · actor · film producer · director · animator · also Richard Linklater, Richard Stuart Linklater, Linklater
Born 30 July 1960 · Q40035
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2026· 5 entries
The A.V. Club: Glen Powell and Richard Linklater are taking a swing at a Lou Gehrig movie
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Variety: Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood,’ Epic Drama That Took 12 Years to Make, Returning to Theaters for 12th Anniversary (EXCLUSIVE)
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Awarded César Award for Best Director for Nouvelle Vague (2026).
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The Guardian: Nouvelle Vague review – Richard Linklater bends the knee to Breathless and Jean-Luc Godard
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2025· 11 entries
The Guardian: Sydney Sweeney, Richard Linklater and Emma Thompson are up for most egregious snub in the 2026 Golden Globe nominations
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The Guardian: ‘It felt dangerous. You got naggy’: Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater on power, combovers and Blue Moon
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collider: Richard Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague' Defies What He "Hates" Most About Period Films: "This Movie Is Just Us Dropping a Camera Down in 1959"
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collider: Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Fixes All the Usual Biopic Problems
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The Guardian: Blue Moon review – Ethan Hawke is terrific in Richard Linklater’s bitter Broadway breakup drama
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The Guardian: Tape review – reverential Hong Kong remake of Richard Linklater drama of toxic masculinity
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IndieWire: Richard Linklater on ‘Nouvelle Vague’ and Playfully Recreating the Making of ‘Breathless’: ‘I Don’t Have an Oedipal Complex with the French New Wave’
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Deadline.com: ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Director Richard Linklater On Trump Film Tariffs: “That’s Not Gonna Happen” – Cannes
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Deadline.com: Richard Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Rolls Into Cannes With 11-Minute Ovation As Quentin Tarantino Sees Pic For Second Time On Same Day
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The Guardian: Before Sunrise review – Richard Linklater’s brief encounter defies romantic convention
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Directed the biographical film Blue Moon revolving around Lorenz Hart and the opening night of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: Richard Linklater: ‘I’ve always had that French new wave notion – that a film should be an extension of your life’
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Linklater directed an episode of God Save Texas for HBO, focusing on the prison industrial complex in Huntsville, Texas
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2023· 1 entry
Where it received critical acclaim and was picked up for distribution by Netflix and released in 2024
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2019· 2 entries
It was announced that Linklater would be filming an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along
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That films its cast periodically through 2040 to capture their natural aging
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2015· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Boyhood (2015).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Boyhood (2015).
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Linklater was named to the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world
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Explained the dietary lifestyle in a Boyhood-style documentary for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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2014· 2 entries
Earned Silver Bear for Best Director for Boyhood (2014).
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Released the film Boyhood, which had been 12 years in the making
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Berlinale Camera (2013).
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2003· 1 entry
Wrote and directed a pilot for HBO with Rodney Rothman called $5
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1998· 1 entry
Took on his first Hollywood feature, The Newton Boys, which received mixed reviews while tanking at the box office
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1995· 2 entries
Earned Silver Bear for Best Director for Before Sunrise (1995).
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Linklater won the Silver Bear for Best Director for the film Before Sunrise at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival
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1994· 1 entry
Had a daughter, and twin girls in 2004
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1985· 1 entry
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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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-07-30.
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