---
name: "Kim Krizan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kim-krizan"
fi1m_id: "kim-krizan"
imdb_id: "nm0471811"
tmdb_id: 568
wikidata_id: "Q6409036"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 November 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 90
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:52:12.315674+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kim Krizan

## Identity

Kim Krizan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kim-krizan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kim-krizan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0471811
- **TMDB ID:** 568
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6409036
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Krizan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6409036, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0471811/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/568

Writer. Born 1 November 1961 in Hawthorne, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 November 1961, Hawthorne, California, USA
- **Active:** 1993–2004
- **Also known as:** Kim Arnette Krizan
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 writing
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 90, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 88 (2), 2000s 91 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Krizan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6409036, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0471811/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/568

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Before Sunrise*](https://film.one/film/before-sunrise.md) (89)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kim Krizan is an American writer and actress. She co-wrote the screenplay for *Before Sunrise* (1995) with Richard Linklater.

Krizan received story credit on *Before Sunset* (2004), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America Award. She appeared as an actress in Linklater's *Slacker* (1990), *Dazed and Confused* (1993) and *Waking Life* (2001).

She holds a master's degree in English and psychology from Texas State University and teaches writing courses, including at UCLA.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Dazed and Confused* (1993), Fi1m 86, as Ms. Stroud — [page](https://film.one/film/dazed-and-confused.md)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *Before Sunset* (2004), Fi1m 91, Story, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/before-sunset.md)
- *Before Sunrise* (1995), Fi1m 89, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/before-sunrise.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Language is Dead* (2017), as Therapist
- *Before Midnight* (2013), Characters
- *Linklater: St. Richard of Austin* (2004), as (Footage from 'Dazed and Confused' and from 'Waking Life')
- *Before Sunset* (2004), Characters, Story — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/before-sunset.md)
- *Before Sunrise* (1995), Writer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/before-sunrise.md)
- *Dazed and Confused* (1993), as Ms. Stroud — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/dazed-and-confused.md)
- *Slacker* (1990), as Questions Happiness — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/slacker.md)

## Gallery

- ![Kim Krizan](https://film.one/media/person/86249/gallery-2a67b0efbccc.jpg) Kim Krizan — Chip Mosher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Kim-Krizan-Profile-Pic.jpeg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kim Krizan at "Double Indemnity" train station 2012](https://film.one/media/person/86249/gallery-ab696332f43b.jpg) Kim Krizan at "Double Indemnity" train station 2012 — Moshdaddy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Kim_Krizan_at_%22Double_Indemnity%22_train_station_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2005: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Before Sunset*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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