Wes Anderson (original) (raw)

| | Movie finder Release calendar New releases Coming soon Reviews User reviews Search DIRECTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER, ACTOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Show more » 30 movies | 409 Blu-ray releases | 157 DVD releases Wes Anderson is the son of Melver, an advertising and PR executive, and Anne, an archaeologist turned real estate agent. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an event that he described as the most crucial event of his brothers and his growing up. During childhood, Anderson also began writing plays and making super-8 movies. He was educated at Westchester High School and then St. John's, a private prep school in Houston, Texas, which was later to prove an inspiration for the film Rushmore (1998). Anderson attended the University of Texas in Austin, where he majored in philosophy. It was there that he met Owen Wilson. They became friends and began making short films, some of which aired on a local cable-access station. One of their shorts was Bottle Rocket (1994), which starred Owen and his brother Luke Wilson. The short was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was successfully received, so much so that they received funding to make a feature-length version. Bottle Rocket (1996) was not a commercial hit, but it gained a cult audience and high-profile fans, which included Martin Scorsese. AwardsNomineeAcademy AwardsBest Original ScreenplayThe Royal Tenenbaums2001Academy AwardsBest Original ScreenplayMoonrise Kingdom2012Academy AwardsBest DirectorThe Grand Budapest Hotel2014Academy AwardsBest Original ScreenplayThe Grand Budapest Hotel2014 Average movie rating Based on 30 movies and 9675 ratingsHighest rated: 8.4 / 10 The Grand Bud... (2014) Lowest rated: 6.0 / 10 Bottle Rocket (1994) Filmography 6.8 551The Phoenician Scheme2025 6.8 9Squirrels to the Nuts2024 7.1 25 6.9 992 7.2 24 6.6 28 7.2 1 7.6 54The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar2023 7 575 7.1 1,102 7.9 1,729 6.5 2Always at the Carlyle2018 7.2 16 6.7 1,474 1 7.2 133 6.1 98 8.4 4,326The Grand Budapest Hotel2014 7.2 13One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film2014 6.5 4 8 3,279 8.2 4,594 7.3 2,304The Darjeeling Limited2007 7.1 29 7.5 644The Squid and the Whale2005 7.7 2,276The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou2004 8 3,218 8 2,838 7.3 2,450 6 14 | | | 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