Richard Stuart Linklater Wiki Biography
Richard Stuart Linklater was born on 30 July 1960, in Houston, Texas USA, and is a filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter, best known for his film work including “Slacker”, “Dazed and Confused” and the “Before Sunrise” Trilogy. He also created “School of Rock”, and all of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Richard Linklater? As of late-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $12 million, mostly earned through a successful career as a filmmaker. He created “Boyhood” which received critical acclaim and would win him numerous awards. He’s also known for loyalty to his actors; As he continues his career it is expected that his wealth will increase.
Richard Linklater Net Worth $12 million
Linklater attended Huntsville High School, then transferred to Bellaire High School during his senior year. After matriculating, he attended Sam Houston State University, playing baseball in the school before dropping out to work on an oil rig, during which time he developed a habit of reading novels and later films when he returned. He then realized he wanted to be a filmmaker, buying equipment and moving to Austin, Texas. In 1984, he attended Austin Community College to study film.
The following year, Richard created the Austin film society, and would work on several short films using various techniques. He eventually made his first feature film entitled “It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books” which took two years to complete. Afterwards, he would create Detour Film production, and would make “Slacker” with a budget of only $23,000, which became highly successful and grossed $1.25 million. He became an independent film star, and would create his second film “Dazed and Confused” which was based on his years at high school, again becoming successful, and grossing $8 million which considerably helped his career and that of actor Matthew McConaughey. In 1995, he would create the film “Before Sunrise”, which would win him a Silver Bear for Best Director Award. The following year, he would lend his voice to the animated film “Beavis and Butt-Head Do America”, however, in 1998 his attempt to make his first Hollywood film “The Newton Boys” which did not prove successful.
Later on he would make rotoscope films including “A Scanner Darkly” and “Waking Life”. He also created several mainstream comedies, including “Bad News Bears” and “School of Rock”, all of which would achieve a significant amount of success. He was later nominated for an Academy Award for his films “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight”. In 2006, he created the film “Fast Food Nation”, an adaptation of a book of the same name, which drew mixed reviews, and he would later create “Me and Orson Wells” which became successful. In 2014, he released the film “Boyhood” which would gain critical acclaim including a perfect 100 score from Metacritic; the film co-stars his daughter. Afterwards, he would create a spiritual successor to “Dazed and Confused” entitled “Everybody Wants Some!!”
For his personal life, it is known that Richard had a daughter – Lorelei Grace Linklater – with wife Christina Harrison, who would become an actress, starring in “Boyhood”.
| Full Name | Richard Linklater |
| Net Worth | $12 Million |
| Date Of Birth | July 30, 1960 |
| Place Of Birth | Houston, Texas, USA |
| Height | 5′ 9″ (1.75 m) |
| Profession | Filmmaker |
| Education | Sam Houston State University, Austin Community College, District University of Texas at Austin |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Christina Harrison |
| Children | Lorelei Linklater |
| Parents | Diane Margaret, Charles W. Linklater, III |
| IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000500/ |
| Awards | Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Director, Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, Gotham Independent Film Audience Award, Satellite Award for Best Director, National Society of … |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture, Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature, Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Scr… |
| Movies | Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!, Before Sunrise, Slacker, Before Midnight, Waking Life, Before Sunset, Bernie, School of Rock, A Scanner Darkly, Bad News Bears, The Newton Boys, SubUrbia, Fast Food Nation, Me and Orson Welles, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, Ta… |
| Trademark | |
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| 1 | Frequently writes and/or directs movies starring children or teens, e.g., Dazed and Confused (1993), School of Rock (2003), Bad News Bears (2005), _Boyhood (2014)_, and Everybody Wants Some!! (2016). |
| 2 | Frequently casts Ethan Hawke |
| 3 | His movies often reference Little League baseball |
| 4 | His movies often take place in Texas |
| 5 | His films often take place within a single day |
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| 1 | [2013 interview, on Before Sunrise (1995)] Julie, Ethan and I all knew we had had a special experience, but you don’t expect anything more than that. I think we all like the film and were happy with what it became and everything, but we never talked of it at that time as anything more. It was actually a small studio release – it got released by Columbia – but it was 2.7 million dollars, it was less than half the budget of the film I had made before, Dazed and Confused (1993), so to me it was a little European art film, but I think for a second there was some expectation that this could be the next Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), and I’m like, ” I could guarantee you it won’t be, for all these reasons!”, but I can’t blame anyone for having hope – I love that about our business, people want to be optimistic about stuff. But it did about….what the other two have done! You know, there’s an audience but it was never going to be a mainstream success. But it got generally well-reviewed I felt, people got it. That’s were it started – the people who liked it, liked it. Most people….didn’t notice it! |
| 2 | If cinema was a painting, time would be the paint itself. |
| 3 | [on Boyhood (2014)] It was ultimately 12 scripts. Every year, I got to think about it. And as we got closer to shooting, I got to see how the film felt over the years. It’s rare that a film gives you that chance to edit and think about what it needs. There was this ever-growing film that I got to just contemplate that was pretty amazing. I never did a film that wanted to be itself so much. Just its own thing. So it was a very incremental adjustment every year with the actors. It’s a methodology that’s so unnatural, so different, but there was a real upside within that. |
| 4 | [on the power of time as a concept] I bet the whole farm on what I thought would work with every ounce of my cinematic being, the way we perceive time and cinema and the way we identify with people put before us in a certain way. I thought, “Oh, there will be this cumulative effect.” It’s an investment. Just the way the crew and the cast had invested, two years in, three years in, it just deepened and felt richer. |
| 5 | You see how life just accumulates. Our fundamental view of the world is measured by who we are today and who we’ve been, and that’s not going anywhere. It’s only expanding throughout our lives, it’s always profound and inescapable how we perceive the world through that viewpoint. |
| 6 | [on how he handled the passing of time on Boyhood (2014)] I think the tendency would be to draw attention to it, like, “Hey look how it’s a year later!” And your memory doesn’t work that way. I wanted the thing to feel like a memory, and it just kind of flows. So I wanted the audience to earn the transition by observation. Sometimes it’s a little more obvious. But I didn’t want like, a direct-cut close-up of Ellar with long hair, and then the next shot he has short hair. I actually cut a transition between years one and two and then again between years 11 and 12 because I wasn’t happy with it. It was a little too obvious. |
| 7 | The most unique property of cinema is how it lets you mold time, whether it’s over a long or a very brief period. |
| 8 | [on Greece as the setting for Before Midnight (2013)] To place Jesse and Celine’s issues of the day in a much bigger context, you realize there’s nothing new here, this is completely eternal. Issues go on between partners, men and women, families. I liked the macro thinking of all that with our specific little moment in time. |
| 9 | We get a lot of cautionary tales about the dangers of getting exactly what you want in life, you know, if you take out the striving and the incompleteness, then where are you? |
| 10 | [on the woman Linklater met in Philadelphia as a young man, who inspired the Before Trilogy] She kind of echoes through the film. I always felt I would see her, like she would show up at a screening. When you make a film, you’re in public quite a bit. You do screenings, festivals. I run into a lot of old friends, and I figured, just in my mind, ‘I have a screening in Philadelphia; maybe she’ll be in New York. … ‘ And she never showed up. Even in the second film, I think that, in a way, works into the idea of the novel [that Hawke’s character, Jesse, writes] and it’s sent out as a beacon, you know, in some way, what Jesse admits to, that was swirling around. And I don’t want to exaggerate: [My experience] wasn’t as intense of a relationship, obviously, as Celine and Jesse have; it was just something swirling around in my mind. The new film is dedicated to her.” [Linklater learned from a mutual friend that the woman died in a motorcycle accident shortly before Before Sunrise (1995) began filming.] |
| 11 | [on Before Midnight (2013)] The essence of you probably doesn’t change and that’s really one of the concerns of the movie. Have Celine and Jessie changed? They are still themselves; they seem very connected to the same person they were at 23 and yet life has this way of attaching things to them, whether it’s children or just life experience and responsibility certainly. It’s a very different life at 23 where you could just get off a train with no one waiting on you back home, no schedule. When we meet them the second time they are very scheduled. He has a plane to catch, he is at work and she is grounded in the city she lives in. So you see the reality closing in even though it’s still this romantic encounter. By the time of the third film they are in the real world, we see their social interactions and they are much more grounded. |
| 12 | [on the ‘Before’ films] Each film is like doing a thesis, and this is an ongoing doctoral dissertation. I feel I could go back and get another degree. I read books about it and articles, and all that stuff. I know a lot on an intellectual level, but how it applies to my own life, I don’t know…it’s my exploration of being an adult male. It’s a mystery how love redefines itself. There’s the white heat of attraction that we interpret as a deep connection and love. But it’s different from what makes a long-term partnership. |
| 13 | This whole notion of love being based on attraction is fairly recent in history and is not a very stable indicator. That’s why, throughout history, most marriages have been arranged and not in the hands of the people themselves because you’re not equipped to to make a good decision when you have the hots for someone. It feels good now, but where are you going to be in two years from now. You can’t entrust love to two kids. Look at Romeo and Juliet. Tying love an romance together is really just something we’ve done in the last two or three hundred years. |
| 14 | We get a lot of cautionary tales about the dangers of getting exactly what you want in life. You know, if you take out the striving and the incompleteness, then where are you? |
| 15 | [on Raging Bull (1980)] It made me see movies as a potential outlet for what I was thinking about and hoping to express. At that point, I was an unformed artist. At that moment, something was simmering in me, but “Raging Bull” brought it to a boil. |
| 16 | It’s tough, man. Unless it’s a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that’s all the studios are even doing. They’ve kind of admitted they’re not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you’re out of the league, you’re done. |
| 17 | My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot. |
| 18 | These days we can be sued for disparaging an industry. It’s like it’s a felony to say something bad. I think they should make it a felony to criticize a film product. Particularly my film product. It’s anti-American. I’d like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can’t say something nice you shouldn’t say anything at all. |
| 19 | We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people. |
| 20 | I would have loved to have been a ’40s studio director like Vincente Minnelli. You ended up with a real diverse career. Now you don’t get a call from [Darryl F. Zanuck] saying, “Come do this movie on Monday”. So you have to do it on your own. |
| 21 | But nothing is going to knock me off my game. Because I have some pretty low-budget films I want to do. |
| 22 | [Terrence Malick] is a guy who sees his movies and thinks, “I would have done that differently”. I see mine and say, “Given the circumstances, that’s what I did and that’s what I’d do again”. I don’t know how much of a free-will guy I am. |
| 23 | Most of us are losers most of the time, if you think about it. |
| Fact | |
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| 1 | Received Variety’s Creative Impact in Cinema Award for his film Boyhood during the Texas Film Awards gala held on March 12, 2015 in Austin, Texas. |
| 2 | He directed Ethan Hawke in eight films: Before Sunrise (1995), The Newton Boys (1998), Waking Life (2001), Tape (2001), Before Sunset (2004), Fast Food Nation (2006), Before Midnight (2013) and Boyhood (2014). |
| 3 | He is of German, Scottish, English, Irish, and Scots-Irish ancestry. His surname, “Linklater”, is Scottish. |
| 4 | Directed 2 actors in Oscar nominated performances: Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette. Arquette won for her role in Boyhood (2014). |
| 5 | Many of his movies feature characters having philosophical talks. |
| 6 | Was influenced by Robert Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. |
| 7 | Although the preference of dialogue over action in many of his movies, particularly the Before Trilogy, may lead some to believe that his movies are improvised by the actors, Linklater has often said that this is far from the truth: he rehearses his scenes constantly before filming, and does not allow any changes from the script while filming. He has said that he usually does not have the budget or the patience to allow for improvisation. |
| 8 | Sent a letter to Monte Hellman with a tape of his first film, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988). |
| 9 | His top 10 films are Andrei Rublev (1966), Au hasard Balthazar (1966), The Flowers of St. Francis (1950), Day of Wrath (1943), Tokyo Story (1953), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Unfaithfully Yours (1948), Fanny and Alexander (1982) -the television version-, Pickpocket (1959), I Know Where I’m Going! (1945). |
| 10 | Raging Bull (1980) was the catalyst for his approach towards cinema. |
| 11 | Founded the Austin Film Society. |
| 12 | First became passionate about film while working on an oil rig during college and realized he wanted to be a Director. |
| 13 | Profiled in “Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly”, E.M. Walker, D.T. Johnson, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. |
| 14 | Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999. |
| 15 | Kevin Smith said that it was Linklater’s Slacker (1991) that made him want to be a director. |
| 16 | Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 9, 2007 in Austin, Texas. |
| 17 | Has been a vegetarian since his early 20s. |
| 18 | 7 October 2004: Three former friends of Linklater-Bobby Wooderson, Andy Slater, and Richard “Pink” Floyd-sued him for the unauthorized use of their names and images in the film Dazed and Confused (1993) and for their representation as stoners, which they say has damaged their reputation. |
| 19 | Father of Lorelei Linklater. |
| 20 | Cut his directorial teeth on a $3,000 Super-8 feature. |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Untitled John Brinkley Biopic | producer announced | ||
| School of Rock | 2016-2017 | TV Series executive producer – 24 episodes | |
| I Dream Too Much | 2016 | executive producer | |
| Everybody Wants Some!! | 2016 | producer | |
| Boyhood | 2014/I | producer | |
| Before Midnight | 2013 | producer | |
| Up to Speed | 2012 | TV Series executive producer – 6 episodes | |
| Bernie | 2011 | producer | |
| Me and Orson Welles | 2008 | producer | |
| Bad News Bears | 2005 | producer | |
| $5.15/Hr. | 2004 | TV Movie producer | |
| Dazed and Confused | 1993 | producer | |
| Heads I Win/Tails You Lose | 1991 | Video producer | |
| Slacker | 1991 | producer | |
| It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books | 1988 | producer | |
| Last Night at the Alamo | 1983 | executive producer – restored version |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waking Life | 2001 | ||
| The Newton Boys | 1998 | ||
| SubUrbia | 1996 | ||
| Before Sunrise | 1995 | ||
| Dazed and Confused | 1993 | ||
| Heads I Win/Tails You Lose | 1991 | Video | |
| Slacker | 1991 | ||
| It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books | 1988 | ||
| Woodshock | 1985 | Documentary short | |
| Last Flag Flying | 2017 | completed | |
| Untitled John Brinkley Biopic | announced | ||
| Where’d You Go, Bernadette | pre-production | ||
| Everybody Wants Some!! | 2016 | ||
| Boyhood | 2014/I | ||
| Before Midnight | 2013 | ||
| Up to Speed | 2012 | TV Series 6 episodes | |
| Bernie | 2011 | ||
| Me and Orson Welles | 2008 | ||
| Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach | 2008 | Documentary | |
| A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | ||
| Fast Food Nation | 2006 | ||
| Bad News Bears | 2005 | ||
| $5.15/Hr. | 2004 | TV Movie | |
| Before Sunset | 2004 | ||
| School of Rock | 2003 | ||
| Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor | 2003 | Short | |
| Tape | 2001 |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Flag Flying | 2017 | screenplay completed | |
| Untitled John Brinkley Biopic | announced | ||
| Where’d You Go, Bernadette | screenwriter pre-production | ||
| Everybody Wants Some!! | 2016 | written by | |
| Boyhood | 2014/I | written by | |
| Making a Scene | 2013 | Short lines written by | |
| Before Midnight | 2013 | characters / written by | |
| Up to Speed | 2012 | TV Series creator | |
| Bernie | 2011 | screenplay | |
| A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | screenplay | |
| Fast Food Nation | 2006 | written by | |
| $5.15/Hr. | 2004 | TV Movie | |
| Before Sunset | 2004 | characters / screenplay / story | |
| Waking Life | 2001 | written by | |
| The Newton Boys | 1998 | screenplay | |
| Before Sunrise | 1995 | written by | |
| Dazed and Confused | 1993 | written by | |
| Slacker | 1991 | writer | |
| It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books | 1988 | concept |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blaze | 2018 | post-production | |
| After Before | 2016 | Short | |
| RSO [Registered Sex Offender] | 2008 | Principal Mallard | |
| The Hottest State | 2006 | John Wayne Enthusiast | |
| Chelsea Walls | 2001 | Crony 2 (as Rick Linklater) | |
| Spy Kids | 2001 | Cool Spy | |
| Waking Life | 2001 | Pinball Playing Man / Man on Back of Boat | |
| Scotch and Milk | 1998 | Cab Passenger | |
| Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | 1996 | Tour Bus Driver (voice) | |
| The Underneath | 1995 | Ember Doorman | |
| Slacker | 1991 | Should Have Stayed at Bus Station | |
| It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books | 1988 |
Cinematographer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waking Life | 2001 | camera | |
| It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books | 1988 | ||
| Woodshock | 1985 | Documentary short |
Editor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heads I Win/Tails You Lose | 1991 | Video | |
| It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books | 1988 |
Camera Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tape | 2001 | camera operator |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Room | 2005/I | additional funding |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lucky Man | 2016 | special thanks | |
| Row | 2016/I | Short | |
| Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk | 2014 | special thanks | |
| Synthesizers | 2013 | Video short very special thanks | |
| Computer Chess | 2013 | special thanks | |
| The Man Who Never Cried | 2011 | Short special thanks | |
| Ashes | 2010/I | very special thanks | |
| A Gang Land Love Story | 2010 | very special thanks | |
| Food, Inc. | 2008 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Death Proof | 2007 | special thanks – as Rick Linklater | |
| One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming ‘A Scanner Darkly’ | 2006 | Video documentary short thanks | |
| The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales | 2006 | Video documentary short thanks | |
| The Hottest State | 2006 | thanks | |
| Horrors of War | 2006 | thanks | |
| Tales of the Rat Fink | 2006 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Come Early Morning | 2006 | special thanks | |
| I Am a Sex Addict | 2005 | thank you – as Rick Linklater | |
| Tortured by Joy | 2004 | Short thanks | |
| Made Men: The ‘GoodFellas’ Legacy | 2004 | Video documentary short special thanks | |
| Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt | 2004 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | special thanks – as Rick Linklater | |
| Nightstand | 2002 | Short the producers wish to thank | |
| Chelsea Walls | 2001 | special thanks | |
| The Mecca | 2000 | Short special thanks | |
| Hamlet | 2000 | special thanks | |
| They Come at Night | 1998 | thanks | |
| Good Will Hunting | 1997 | thanks | |
| Full Tilt Boogie | 1997 | Documentary special thanks – as Rick Linklater | |
| The Doom Generation | 1995 | special thanks – as Rick Linklater | |
| Clerks | 1994 | special thanks: for leading the way | |
| Totally F***ed Up | 1993 | special thanks – as Rick Linklater |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Also Starring Austin | Documentary post-production | Himself | |
| 48 Hours on ID | 2017 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| 48 Hours | 2016 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| CBS This Morning | 2014-2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| Overheard | 2012-2016 | TV Series | Himself – Interviewee |
| Today | 2016 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| Off Camera with Sam Jones | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| Weekend Ticket | 2016 | TV Series short | Himself |
| Conan | 2016 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Sidewalks Entertainment | 2013-2016 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Back Bumper Confessions on Torio TV | 2016 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
| Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
| Hitchcock/Truffaut | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| Teens Wanna Know | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| E! Live from the Red Carpet | 2014-2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 87th Annual Academy Awards | 2015 | TV Special | Himself – Nominee: Best Original Screenplay / Best Director and Best Picture |
| Tavis Smiley | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| 20th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards | 2015 | TV Special | Himself |
| 72nd Golden Globe Awards | 2015 | TV Special | Himself – Winner |
| Boyhood: The 12 Year Project | 2015 | Video documentary short | Himself – Writer / Producer / Director |
| Boyhood: The 12 Year Project, The Making of ‘Boyhood’ | 2015 | Video short | Himself |
| The View | 2015 | TV Series | Himself – Director, Boyhood |
| Hollywood Sessions | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| KCAL 9 News Weekend Report | 2014 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| 24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Janela Indiscreta | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Side by Side Extra: Volume Two | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Festival de cine de San Sebastián 2014: Gala de inauguración | 2014 | TV Movie | Himself – Winner: FIPRESCI Award |
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2014 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| CBS News Sunday Morning | 2014 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| The Daily Show | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| HuffPost Live Conversations | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| IMDb: What to Watch | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Entertainment Tonight | 2014 | TV Series | Himself – Director, Boyhood |
| La noche de los Oscar | 2014 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The 86th Annual Academy Awards | 2014 | TV Special | Himself – Nominee: Best Adapted Screenplay |
| The 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards | 2014 | TV Special | Himself – Nominee (credit only) |
| 19th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards | 2014 | TV Special | Himself – Louis XIII Genius Award |
| Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater | 2013 | Documentary | |
| Made in Hollywood | 2009-2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| Charlie Rose | 2001-2013 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Arts in Context | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Side by Side | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| Ebert Presents: At the Movies | 2011 | TV Series | Himself – ‘Me and Orson Welles’ |
| Texas Monthly Talks | 2003-2009 | TV Series | Himself – Interviewee |
| Great Directors | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| American Prince | 2009 | Documentary | Himself – Interviewer |
| Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Münchner (Filmfest-)Geschichten – 25 Jahre Filmfest München | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | |
| The Manufacturing of ‘Fast Food Nation’ | 2007 | Video documentary | Himself |
| One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming ‘A Scanner Darkly’ | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself – Director & Screenplay |
| The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself – Director & Screenwriter |
| The Colbert Report | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| Austin Movie Show | 2006 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Imagine | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| HypaSpace | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Filmography | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself – Director |
| The Art Show | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Made Men: The ‘GoodFellas’ Legacy | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself – Director |
| On the Set of ‘Before Sunset’ | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself – Director |
| Festival Pass with Chris Gore | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Anatomy of a Scene | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| University, Inc. | 1999 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Directors | 1997 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Split Screen | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
| At Sundance | 1995 | Documentary | Himself |
| Siskel & Ebert | 1995 | TV Series | Himself |
| Janis Joplin Slept Here | 1994 | Documentary | Himself |
| Late Night with Conan O’Brien | 1993 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ebert Presents: At the Movies | 2011 | TV Series | Himself – ‘Me and Orson Welles’ |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | IOFCP Award | International Online Film Critics’ Poll | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | IFC Award | Iowa Film Critics Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Director of the Year | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | NCFCA Award | North Carolina Film Critics Association | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | NTFCA Award | North Texas Film Critics Association, US | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | OFCC Award | Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Sonny Bono Visionary Award | Palm Springs International Film Festival | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2015 | Robert | Robert Festival | Best American Film (Årets amerikanske film) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Outstanding Director of the Year Award | Santa Barbara International Film Festival | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2015 | Critics Award | SESC Film Festival, Brazil | Best Foreign Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Critics Award | SESC Film Festival, Brazil | Best Foreign Director (Melhor Diretor Estrangeiro) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Audience Award | SESC Film Festival, Brazil | Best Foreign Director (Melhor Diretor Estrangeiro) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director – Motion Picture | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | David Lean Award for Direction | BAFTA Awards | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2015 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Film | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | AFI Award | AFI Awards, USA | Movie of the Year | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Picture | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Bodil | Bodil Awards | Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Career Achievement Award | Casting Society of America, USA | ||
| 2015 | Filmmaker Award | Cinema Audio Society, USA | ||
| 2015 | Cinema Bloggers Award | Cinema Bloggers Awards, Portugal | Best Director – International Competition | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Audience Award | Cinema Brazil Grand Prize | Best Foreign-Language Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Heterodox Award | Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2015 | CinEuphoria | CinEuphoria Awards | Top Ten of the Year – International Competition | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Distinguished Collaborator Award | Costume Designers Guild Awards | ||
| 2015 | DFCS Award | Denver Film Critics Society | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Fotogramas de Plata | Fotogramas de Plata | Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | GFCA Award | Georgia Film Critics Association (GFCA) | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Motion Picture | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | HFCS Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | HFCS Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | IFJA Award | Indiana Film Journalists Association, US | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | INOCA | International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | KCFCC Award | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | LAFCA Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | People’s Choice Award | Melbourne International Film Festival | Best Narrative Feature | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Writer/Director Award | Nantucket Film Festival | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2014 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | NYFCO Award | New York Film Critics, Online | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Norwegian Film Critics Award | Norwegian International Film Festival | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2014 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | SFFCC Award | San Francisco Film Critics Circle | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Founder’s Directing Award | San Francisco International Film Festival | ||
| 2014 | FIPRESCI Film of the Year | San Sebastián International Film Festival | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2014 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Golden Space Needle Award | Seattle International Film Festival | Best Film | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Golden Space Needle Award | Seattle International Film Festival | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | SEFCA Award | Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Louis Black/Lone Star Award | SXSW Film Festival | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2014 | TFCA Award | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | VVFP Award | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Screenwriter | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | Austin Film Critics Award | Austin Film Critics Association | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Austin Film Award | Austin Film Critics Association | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2014 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Silver Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas | Berlin International Film Festival | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2014 | Reader Jury of the “Berliner Morgenpost” | Berlin International Film Festival | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2014 | BSFC Award | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | BSFC Award | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Critics’ Choice Louis XIII Genius Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | ||
| 2014 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | DFCS Award | Detroit Film Critic Society, US | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | DFCS Award | Detroit Film Critic Society, US | Best Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | DFCC | Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Lost Weekend Award | Film Club’s The Lost Weekend | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | FFCC Award | Florida Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Audience Award | Gotham Awards | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2013 | IFJA Award | Indiana Film Journalists Association, US | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | LAFCA Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | UFCA Award | Utah Film Critics Association Awards | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | VVFP Award | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | Austin Film Award | Austin Film Critics Association | Before Midnight (2013) | |
| 2013 | Berlinale Camera | Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| 2013 | BOFCA Award | Boston Online Film Critics Association | Best Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | DFCC | Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | Tribute Award | Gotham Awards | ||
| 2013 | Hollywood Film Award | Hollywood Film Awards | Screenwriter of the Year | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2012 | Lone Star States | SXSW Film Festival | Louis Black Lone Star Award | Bernie (2011) |
| 2012 | Austin Film Award | Austin Film Critics Association | Bernie (2011) | |
| 2009 | Austin Film Award | Austin Film Critics Association | Me and Orson Welles (2008) | |
| 2007 | Austin Film Award | Austin Film Critics Association | A Scanner Darkly (2006) | |
| 2004 | VVFP Award | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Director | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2003 | Special Mention | Tribeca Film Festival | Documentary Short | Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor (2003) |
| 2002 | OIAF Award | Ottawa International Animation Festival | Best Animated Feature Film | Waking Life (2001) |
| 2001 | ‘CinemAvvenire’ Award | Venice Film Festival | Best Film | Waking Life (2001) |
| 2001 | Laterna Magica Prize – Special Mention | Venice Film Festival | Waking Life (2001) | |
| 2001 | John Cassavetes Award | Denver International Film Festival | ||
| 1995 | Silver Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | Best Director | Before Sunrise (1995) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Audience Award | Gotham Awards | Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) | |
| 2016 | Gotham Independent Film Award | Gotham Awards | Best Feature | Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) |
| 2015 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | IOFCP Award | International Online Film Critics’ Poll | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | IOMA | Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA) | Best Original Screenplay (Miglior sceneggiatura originale) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | ALFS Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | Screenwriter of the Year | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | NCFCA Award | North Carolina Film Critics Association | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Picture | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | PGA Award | PGA Awards | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | VFCC Award | Vancouver Film Critics Circle | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | VFCC Award | Vancouver Film Critics Circle | Best Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Motion Picture of the Year | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Achievement in Directing | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | AACTA International Award | AACTA International Awards | Best Film | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | AACTA International Award | AACTA International Awards | Best Direction | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | AACTA International Award | AACTA International Awards | Best Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | EDA Award | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Silver Condor | Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards | Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | AACTA International Award | Australian Film Institute | Best Direction | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | AACTA International Award | Australian Film Institute | Best Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | COFCA Award | Central Ohio Film Critics Association | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Chlotrudis Award | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Cinema Bloggers Award | Cinema Bloggers Awards, Portugal | Best North American Film | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Cinema Bloggers Award | Cinema Bloggers Awards, Portugal | Best Screenplay – International Competition | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Cinema Brazil Grand Prize | Cinema Brazil Grand Prize | Best Foreign-Language Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | CEC Award | Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain | Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | CinEuphoria | CinEuphoria Awards | Best Director – International Competition | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | CinEuphoria | CinEuphoria Awards | Best Film – International Competition | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | CCOP | Críticos de Cinema Online Portugueses Awards | Best Film (Melhor Filme) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | CCOP | Críticos de Cinema Online Portugueses Awards | Best Director (Melhor Realizador) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | CCOP | Críticos de Cinema Online Portugueses Awards | Best Original Screenplay (Melhor Argumento Original) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | César | César Awards, France | Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | DFCS Award | Denver Film Critics Society | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Empire Award | Empire Awards, UK | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Dorian Award | Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA) | Film Director of the Year | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Wilde Artist of the Year | Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA) | ||
| 2015 | GFCA Award | Georgia Film Critics Association (GFCA) | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Guldbagge | Guldbagge Awards | Best Foreign Film (Bästa utländska film) | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2015 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Feature | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | NCFCA Award | North Carolina Film Critics Association | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Picture | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | PCC Award | Phoenix Critics Circle | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | PCC Award | Phoenix Critics Circle | Best Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | PFCS Award | Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Robert | Robert Festival | Best American Film (Årets amerikanske film) | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | SFFCC Award | San Francisco Film Critics Circle | Best Screenplay, Original | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Original | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Screenplay Competition | Screenwriters Choice Awards, Online | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | SLFCA Award | St. Louis Film Critics Association, US | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | SLFCA Award | St. Louis Film Critics Association, US | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Audience Award | SXSW Film Festival | Festival Favorites | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Sydney Film Prize | Sydney Film Festival | Best Film | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | Silver Condor | Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards | Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera) | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Golden Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | Boyhood (2014) | |
| 2014 | Bodil | Bodil Awards | Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | Critics Choice Award | Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | COFCA Award | Central Ohio Film Critics Association | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | DFCS Award | Denver Film Critics Society | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | Golden Schmoes | Golden Schmoes Awards | Best Director of the Year | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Gotham Independent Film Award | Gotham Awards | Best Feature | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Director | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | Halfway Award | International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | Best Director | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | Halfway Award | International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | SFFCC Award | San Francisco Film Critics Circle | Best Screenplay, Adapted | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | Screenplay Competition | Screenwriters Choice Awards, Online | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | SLFCA Award | St. Louis Film Critics Association, US | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | Audience Award | SXSW Film Festival | Festival Favorites | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | TFCA Award | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | WAFCA Award | Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | DFCS Award | Detroit Film Critic Society, US | Best Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | DFCC | Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | Gotham Independent Film Award | Gotham Awards | Best Feature | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | HFCS Award | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Feature | Bernie (2011) |
| 2012 | Gotham Independent Film Award | Gotham Awards | Best Feature | Bernie (2011) |
| 2007 | Chlotrudis Award | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
| 2007 | Hugo | Hugo Awards | Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form | A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
| 2006 | Palme d’Or | Cannes Film Festival | Fast Food Nation (2006) | |
| 2005 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Picture | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2005 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2005 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2005 | WGA Award (Screen) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2005 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2005 | Silver Condor | Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards | Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera en Idioma no Español) | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2005 | Bodil | Bodil Awards | Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2005 | Gold Derby Award | Gold Derby Awards | Adapted Screenplay | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2005 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Screenplay | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2004 | Golden Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | Before Sunset (2004) | |
| 2004 | Gotham Independent Film Award | Gotham Awards | Best Feature | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2002 | Daring Digital Award | Jeonju Film Festival | Digital Spectrum | Waking Life (2001) |
| 2002 | Chlotrudis Award | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Director | Waking Life (2001) |
| 2002 | Chlotrudis Award | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Waking Life (2001) |
| 2002 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Director | Waking Life (2001) |
| 2002 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Screenplay | Waking Life (2001) |
| 2001 | Golden Lion | Venice Film Festival | Waking Life (2001) | |
| 1996 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Before Sunrise (1995) |
| 1995 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Director | Before Sunrise (1995) |
| 1995 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Before Sunrise (1995) |
| 1995 | Golden Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | Before Sunrise (1995) | |
| 1993 | Golden Leopard | Locarno International Film Festival | Dazed and Confused (1993) | |
| 1992 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best First Feature | Slacker (1991) |
| 1992 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Director | Slacker (1991) |
| 1991 | Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | Dramatic | Slacker (1991) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | INOCA | International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | IFJA Award | Indiana Film Journalists Association, US | Best Original Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2014 | TFCA Award | Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Motion Picture | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | DFWFCA Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Director | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2014 | DFWFCA Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Boyhood (2014) |
| 2013 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2013 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Before Midnight (2013) |
| 2005 | ICS Award | International Cinephile Society Awards | Best Screenplay | Before Sunset (2004) |
| 2004 | VVFP Award | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Screenplay | Before Sunset (2004) |
3rd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | ICP Award | Indiewire Critics’ Poll | Best Screenplay | A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
| 2005 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Screenplay | Before Sunset (2004) |