FrameThrower · Actors · Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater
2 films · 113 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1991–1995
Born 30 July 1960 · Houston, Texas, USA
Richard Linklater is an American filmmaker. He is known for making films that deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. In 2015, Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
His films include the comedies Slacker (1990) and Dazed and Confused (1993); the Before trilogy of romance films: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (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…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 113 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1991–1995
- Golden Globe Award for Best Director2015
- BAFTA Award for Best Direction2015
- Silver Bear for Best Director2014
- Berlinale Camera2013
- Silver Bear for Best Director1995
- César Award for Best Director2026
How their films are shot
Measured across 113 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Richard takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 57% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Richard takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 113 frames from Richard Linklater's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.