Richard Linklater Wins Best Director At The 2015 Golden Globes For 'Boyhood'

Oscar Front-Runner Richard Linklater Wins Best Director At Golden Globes
Richard Linklater poses in the press room with the award for best director for âBoyhoodâ at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Richard Linklater poses in the press room with the award for best director for âBoyhoodâ at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Richard Linklater took home Best Director at the Golden Globes on Sunday for his work on "Boyhood," topping Wes Anderson ("The Grand Budapest Hotel"), Ava DuVernay ("Selma"), David Fincher ("Gone Girl") and Alejandro González Iñárritu ("Birdman").

"Boyhood" led to Linklater's first Globe nominations. He was also up for Best Screenplay, but lost to the writers of "Birdman."

Linklater is widely considered a lock for the Oscars' Best Director shortlist. If his name is called out when the nominations are announced on Thursday, it will mark Linklater's third Academy Award nod. He was previously up for co-writing "Before Midnight" and "Before Sunset" with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke.

Recent Golden Globe winners for Best Director include Alfonso Cuarón ("Gravity"), Ben Affleck ("Argo"), Martin Scorsese ("Hugo") and James Cameron ("Avatar").

Full HuffPost Entertainment coverage of the Golden Globes can be found here. The full list of Golden Globes winners is here.

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