Family Of the Year | Hero (Boyhood Music Video) | IFC Films

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Boyhood is nominated for a total of 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ethan Hawke), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Patricia Arquette), Best Director (Richard Linklater), Best Film Editing (Sandra Adair) and Best Original Screenplay (Richard Linklater).

Boyhood is the Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Picture, Drama and Patricia Arquette is the Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture and Richard Linklater is the Golden Globe Award Winner for Best Director.

This 10-minute featurette, spanning 12 years, gives an extensive look at the process of creating what The New York Times calls "one of the most extraordinary movies of the 21st century." Go behind-the-scenes with Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater as they delve into how they created this groundbreaking epic.

Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent, set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay's Yellow to Arcade Fire's Deep Blue. BOYHOOD is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting. It's impossible to watch Mason and his family without thinking about our own journey.

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[Douglas_Rain-]

This is one of the most unique movie of the

[josepgabarrosperez]

A really heartbreaking song. Boyhood, what a must-see movie.

[MrStreetballerOfficial]

I really love this movie. Being around the same age as Mason in the film really made me feel nostalgic as the life he portrayed on the screen really was similar to the life I've lived so far minus some things here and there. Great film, can't seem to emphasis this enough its just so great. Love it, probably my favorite movie. Seen it almost 12-13 times and still never gets old.

[brasileirosim]

When I talk to people about movies and they say they don’t know it, I say “Listen carefully to what I will tell you: don’t even think of dying before watching Boyhood. The movie is unique, absolutely beautiful. You will not be disappointed”.

[ronaldjesudass]

You can’t just watch this movie. You live through it.

[iBigYeti]

Anyone else notice when watching the movie, when the girl in elementary wrote the note saying she liked his hair, and the girl at the end of the movie her name was Nicole too. Hmmm. wonder if they meant for that?

[MeBeTheDB]

"HERO" by Family of the Year is one of the best songs ever written for a film. I think we can all relate to that moment we drove down that big highway to an elsewhere bigger than our dreams.

Listen. Groove. Share.

D.A.

[michaelmolina]

I love the movie and this song . I don't get tired of listening to it when i can

[jg]

A wonderful film filled with unexpectedly honest moments of light and life wrapped in truth and simplicity. Just wonderful.

[brasileirosim]

Movie great, actors great, songs great.

[NoName-msjb]

They actually filmed this over 12 years with the same actors throughout. You get to watch a child grow up on screen before your eyes.

[bunnyfish]

I just loved Zoe Graham, "Sheena"...one amazing film...a must see...brilliant film making

[gamerintelligence]

Beautiful movie which I keep going back when I feel down and depressed to lift my spirits

[i.diana-alexandramybirds]

How nice. I like this song.And the movie.

[pramodkatwal]

It's awesome... One of my fav song...

[suzannegougeon]

Favorite song from my favorite movie..it totally moves me like no other song.

[brasileirosim]

When the young couple was driving in the highway I thought “ok, now a huge accident will happen, of course” but no, nothing drastic, just a wonderful, warm, sensible movie, done for the eternity. One of my favorites movies (ok, High Fidelity is from the same level).

[baqerabbas]

Really amazing, gorgeous acoustic, inspired me

[ramirosotto]

Guys, sorry if this a spoiler for the folks who didn't seen the movie, but I have one question: is the girl at 0:57 the same character and the same actrees in the end of the movie? Probably i'm an idiot, but i'm not sure at all, and I HAVE TO know it.

[IanTaylor]

IF YOU COULDNT SEE YOUR SON THIS IS A GOOD SONG. AND FILM