The film focuses on a successful and artistic New York City family and its ostracized patriarch played by Gene Hackman. 2000s Īnderson's next comedy-drama, The Royal Tenenbaums, was released in 2001. Since its release, Rushmore has gained cult status, and in 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2000, filmmaker Martin Scorsese praised Bottle Rocket and Rushmore. Murray also earned a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. At the 1999 Independent Spirit Awards, Anderson won the Best Director award and Murray won Best Supporting Male. Murray has since appeared in every Anderson film to date. The film launched Murray's second act as a respected actor within independent cinema. His next film was Rushmore (1998), a quirky comedy about a high school student's crush on an elementary school teacher starring Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, and Olivia Williams. It was well reviewed but performed poorly at the box office. It was a crime caper about a group of young Texans aspiring to achieve major heists. Film career 1990s Īnderson's first film was Bottle Rocket (1996), based on a short film of the same name that he made with Luke and Owen Wilson. Anderson worked part-time as a cinema projectionist while attending the University of Texas at Austin, where he met his roommate and future collaborator Owen Wilson in 1989. As a child, Anderson made silent films on his father's Super 8 camera which starred his brothers and friends, although his first ambition was to be a writer. John's School in Houston in 1987, which he later used as a prominent location throughout Rushmore. Anderson is of English, Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. His older brother, Mel, is a physician, and his younger brother, Eric Chase Anderson, is a writer and artist whose paintings and designs have appeared in several of Anderson's films, such as The Royal Tenenbaums. He is the second of three boys his parents divorced when he was eight. Wesley Wales Anderson was born on May 1, 1969, in Houston, Texas, to Texas Ann Anderson (née Burroughs), a realtor and archaeologist, and Melver Leonard Anderson, who worked in advertising and public relations. He won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Isle of Dogs in 2018. He currently runs the production company American Empirical Pictures, which he founded in 1998. With The Grand Budapest Hotel, he received his first Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Picture, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. Īnderson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), as well as the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the stop-motion films Fantastic Mr. Cited by some critics as a modern-day example of the work of an auteur, three of Anderson's films- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)-appeared in BBC Culture's 2016 poll of the greatest films since 2000. His films are known for their eccentricity and unique visual and narrative styles. Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American filmmaker.
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