Director and writer Richard Linklater received six Oscar nominations for his 2014 film Boyhood, which chronicles the life of a boy named Mason, portrayed by Ellar Coltrane, from age 5 to age 18. Watch ‘Richard Linklater on Boyhood | Interview Special | Film4’, in which Director Richard Linklater talks about making his coming-of-age drama, filmed over the course of 12 years with the same actors.