Exclusive: Linklater is appealing the decision, which he sees as a bias against both rotoscope animation and independent productions. Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” revisits ...

Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” revisits the 1969 moon landing through the memories of a boy who imagines traveling there himself. It premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in ...

Having applied his signature indie aesthetic to the '70s, the '80s and — perhaps most memorably — the '90s, the director now revisits the warts-and-all '60s of his Texas youth. By Mia Galuppo Senior ...

Linklater leaned into 2D animation in fusing memory and fantasy in his Netflix film about growing up in Houston during the historic NASA moon landing. Growing up in the NASA hub of Houston, Richard ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10½ doesn’t meet the Academy’s “definition of animation,” despite relying exclusively on a 100-year-old hand-drawn 2-D animation technique. Photo: Netflix Linklater and ...

A version of this story about “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” first appeared in the Awards Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. The Academy made Richard Linklater play a waiting game with ...

WHAT we really seek in space is “not knowledge, but wonder, beauty, romance, novelty – and above all, adventure”, sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke told the American Aeronautical Society in 1967, as the ...

On the ability to get more complex, director Dean DeBlois said protagonist Hiccup's costume "would normally have been too complicated." The system will be discussed further at Siggraph. By Carolyn ...

On July 20, 1969, astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed Apollo 11 on the moon. It was one of the greatest technological and scientific achievements in American history — but Aldrin and ...