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 News Bears", he gained wider recognition. In 2003, he wrote and directed a pilot for HBO with Rodney Rothman called "$5.15/hr", about several minimum wage restaurant workers. The pilot deals with themes later examined in "Fast Food Nation". In 2004, the British television network Channel 4 produced a major documentary about Linklater, in which the filmmaker frankly discussed the personal and philosophical ideas behind his films. "St Richard of Austin" was presented by Ben Lewis and directed by Irshad Ashraf and broadcast on Channel 4 in December 2004 in the UK. In 2005, Linklater was nominated for an Academy Award