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 Richard Linklater Richard Stuart Linklater (; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker and actor. Linklater is mostly known for his realistic and natural humanist films which revolve mainly around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. Some notable films of his include the observational comedy film "Slacker" (1990); the coming-of-age comedy "Dazed and Confused" (1993); the romantic drama film trilogy "Before Sunrise" (1995), "Before Sunset" (2004), and "Before Midnight" (2013); the music-themed comedy "School of Rock" (2003); and the rotoscope animated films "Waking Life" (2001) and "A Scanner Darkly" (2006). In 2002, he began filming