Richard Linklater McConaughey. In 1995, Linklater won the Silver Bear for Best Director for the film "Before Sunrise" at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. His next feature, "subUrbia", had mixed reviews critically, and did very poorly at the box office. In 1996, Linklater lent his voice to the critically acclaimed animated feature "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America". In 1998, he took on his first Hollywood feature, "The Newton Boys", which received mixed reviews while tanking at the box office. With the rotoscope films "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly", and his mainstream comedies, "School of Rock" and the remake of "Bad
Richard Linklater 2017. 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 Linklater dropped out of directing when Lawrence dropped out of the project. Linklater is attached to direct an adaptation of Maria Semple's novel "Where'd You Go, Bernadette", produced by Annapurna Pictures. Despite the popularity of many of his films and having directed multiple high-paying Hollywood productions, Linklater remains in Austin, Texas and refuses to live or work in Hollywood for any extended period of time. Linklater is known for using the same actors in