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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Linklater is no stranger to animation, but “Apollo 10 1/2” is a world apart from “Waking Life.” The seminal Texas filmmaker’s new Netflix -produced project, set to make its world premiere at ...

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 ...