Richard Linklater
Richard Stuart Linklater (born July 30, 1960) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for 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 rotoscope animated drama film Waking Life (2001), the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003), the rotoscope animated science fiction thriller A Scanner Darkly (2006), and the coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014), for which he won the Golden Globe for Best Director and Best Motion Picture in 2014. Many of his films are noted for their loosely structured narrative; two of his projects – The Before... films and Boyhood – feature the same actors filmed over an extended period of years. He is known for teaming up with actor Ethan Hawke in many of his films.