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\n\tWe should really stop calling him a slacker. <\/p>\n

\nRichard Linklater, the director has defined independent filmmaking for more than 30 years, is getting his props from the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF), which will honor him this year with a lifetime achievement award. <\/p>\n

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\n\tLinklater will receive the 2026 Golden Eye award for career achievement at this year\u2019s ZFF (Sept. 24 \u2013 Oct. 4), Zurich announced Thursday. The Texan director will attend the festival and take part in a masterclass about his work. Zurich will also screen a retrospective of his films.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRichard Linklater is one of the most visionary and formative directors of American independent cinema,\u201d says Christian Jungen, CEO of the ZFF. \u201cThrough naturalistic dialogue and scenes that feel plucked straight from life, he holds up a mirror to our times and regularly brings out the very best in his actors. He is also the director of my absolute favourite film, Before Sunrise<\/em>, thanks to which I met my wife. I am therefore especially delighted to welcome him to Zurich and to share with our audiences the films that have moved me for so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRichard Linklater says: \u201cI am truly honored to receive the Career Achievement Award from the Zurich Film Festival. When Christian and I met at the Golden Globes, I mentioned I\u2019ve always wanted to attend one day and now seemed like the right time. I\u2019m delighted that this award is the occasion that brings me there, and I very much look forward to celebrating with the European audience that has meant so much to me throughout my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLinklater was a vanguard of the indie film movement of the 1990s. His sophomore feature Slacker<\/em> (1990), a no-budget, no-stars comedy shot on 16 mm, was picked up out by Orion out of Sundance and went on to gross $1 million. <\/p>\n

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\n\tHe has not stopped since. Over the past three decades, Linklater has moved seamlessly between arthouse and the mainstream movies, as at home with broad-appeal crowd pleasers \u2014\u00a0Dazed and Confused<\/em> (1993), School of Rock <\/em>(2003), Hit Man<\/em> (2023) \u2014 as with experimental drama, from the rotoscope animation of Waking Life <\/em>(2001) and A Scanner Darkly<\/em> (2006) to coming-of-age drama Boyhood<\/em> (2014), shot in segments over 11 years.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside Boyhood<\/em>, which was nominated for 6 Oscars, winning best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette, Linklater is arguable best-known for the Before<\/em> trilogy \u2014\u00a0Before Sunrise<\/em> (1995), Before Sunset <\/em>(2004), Before Midnight<\/em> (2013) \u2014 a trio of talky romantic dramas starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Each is set over the course of a single day (or night) and follows the same couple through a relationship of two decades. Both Before Sunset<\/em> and Before Midnight<\/em> were Oscar nominated for best adapted screenplay. <\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, Linklater released both Blue Moon<\/em> \u2014 a period chamber piece starring Hawke as musical legend Lorenz Hart \u2014\u00a0and Nouvelle Vague<\/em>, a French-language black-and-white drama about the making of Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s Breathless<\/em> (1960). As always, he has several projects on the go, including an adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along<\/em> starring Paul Mescal, which is set to shoot over 20 years, an announced biopics of 20th century con man John Brinkley and Texan stand-up legend Bill Hicks. <\/p>\n

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