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 (where he also played baseball), until dropping out to work on an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He frequently read novels on the rig and, upon returning to land, developed a love of film through repeated visits to a repertory theater in Houston. At this point, Linklater realized he wanted to be a filmmaker. He used his savings to buy a Super-8 camera, a projector, and editing equipment, and moved to Austin, Texas. He was influenced by Martin Scorsese, Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. He enrolled in Austin