During 2013, Hawke starred in three films of different genres. "Before Midnight", the third installment of the "Before" series, reunited Hawke with Delpy and Linklater. Like its predecessors, the film garnered a considerable degree of critical acclaim; "Variety" wrote that "one of the great movie romances of the modern era achieves its richest and fullest expression in "Before Midnight"," and called the scene in the hotel room "one for the actors' handbook." The film earned co-writers Hawke, Linklater, and Delpy another Academy Award nomination, for Best Adapted Screenplay.