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Richard Linklater
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American director and screenwriter (born 1960)
OverviewAI-generated
Richard Linklater is an American male filmmaker and director, recognized by tags such as "indie" and "film-maker." Born on July 30, 1960, he began his work period in 1985. He has three children. His official website is detourfilm.com.
Linklater’s notable works include *A Scanner Darkly. Graphic Novel*, *Before sunrise*, *Last flag flying*, and *Dazed and confused*. Open Library lists seven works associated with him, while Crossref records five. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Firecrawl, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1960
- Works
- 7
Top works
- A Scanner Darkly. Graphic Novel
- Before sunrise
- Last flag flying
- Last flag flying
- Dazed and confused
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1960-07-30
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,235
- Total plays
- 6,186
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Linklater">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,349x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,236x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,650x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,252x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Richard Linklater , ( 1960-07-30 ) July 30, 1960 (age 65) , Houston , Texas, U.S.
- Occupations
- Film director producer screenwriter
- Years active
- 1985–present
- Spouse
- Christina Harrison
- Children
- 3, including Lorelei
- Awards
- Full list
- Website
- detourfilm .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Il valore del tempo nel cinema di Linklater -
Nelle scene dei suoi film, il regista Richard Linklater imprigiona la poeticità del quotidiano grazie a un utilizzo sapiente del tempo.
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Linklater (/ˈlɪnkleɪtər/; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker. He is known for making films which deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award, a Silver Bear, a César Award, and five Academy Award nominations.
His films include the comedies Slacker (1990) and Dazed and Confused (1993); the romance films Before trilogy (1995–2013); the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003); the adult animated films Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022); the coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014); the comedy film Everybody Wants Some!! (2016); the action romantic comedy Hit Man (2023); and the biographical films Blue Moon (2025) and Nouvelle Vague (2025).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Linklater” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.