Rick Linklater

RICHARD LINKLATER (Writer/Director) is a 5-time Oscar nominee, two-time Golden Globe winner, two-time Bafta winner, and one of the most internationally acclaimed directors of the last 30 years, having won prizes from nearly every critics group and festival for writing, directing, and producing. Before Slacker, an experimental narrative revolving around twenty-four hours in the lives of one hundred characters, garnered acclaim in 1991, Linklater had made many shorts and completed the Super 8 feature It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988). Linklater's additional credits include Dazed and Confused (1993); Before Sunrise (1995), Suburbia (1997); The Newton Boys (1998), Waking Life (2001); Tape (2001); School of Rock (2003); Before Sunset (2004), 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 (2012); Before Midnight (2013); Boyhood (2014); Everybody Wants Some!! (2016); Last Flag Flying (2017); and Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (2019).

Linklater also founded the Austin Film Society in 1985 which has evolved into one of the nation’s top film organizations. The Austin Film Society shows hundreds of films a year at their 2-screen art cinema, runs Austin Studios, manages the Austin Public Access stations, provides artistic services and many educational programs, and has given out nearly two million dollars in grants to Texas filmmakers since 1996.