Wes Anderson

Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American filmmaker. His films are known for their eccentricity and distinctive visual and narrative styles,[1] and he is regarded by some critics as a modern-day example of the auteur. Three of his films—The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, and The Grand Budapest Hotel—appeared in BBC's 2016 poll of the greatest films since 2000.[2]

Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson at the 64th Berlin Film Festival (2014)
Born	Wesley Wales Anderson (1969-05-01) May 1, 1969 Houston, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin
Occupation	Director producer writer
Years active	1992–present
Partner(s)	Juman Malouf (2010–present)
Children	1
Relatives	Eric Chase Anderson (brother)

Anderson 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. Fox (2009) and Isle of Dogs (2018). 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. He currently runs the production company American Empirical Pictures, which he founded in 1998.[3] Anderson won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Isle of Dogs in 2018.[4]

Early life

Wesley Wales Anderson was born on May 1, 1969, in Houston, Texas. He is the son of Texas Ann Anderson (née Burroughs), a realtor and archaeologist,[5] and Melver Leonard Anderson, who worked in advertising and public relations.[6][7][8][9][10] He is the second of three boys; his parents divorced when he was eight.[10] 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.[11] Anderson is of English, Swedish and Norwegian ancestry.[12]

He graduated from St. John's School in Houston in 1987, which he later used as a prominent location throughout Rushmore.[13] As a child, Anderson made silent films on his father's Super 8 camera and starred his brothers and friends, although his first ambition was to be a writer.[10][11] Anderson worked part-time as a cinema projectionist while attending the University of Texas at Austin, where he met future collaborator Owen Wilson.[10][14] He graduated in 1990 with a degree in philosophy.[11]

Film career

1996–2012

Anderson's first film was Bottle Rocket (1996), based on a short film of the same name that he made with Luke and Owen Wilson. It was a crime caper about a group of young Texans aspiring to achieve major heists. It was well reviewed but performed poorly at the box office.[15][16][17]

His next film was Rushmore (1998), a quirky comedy about a high school student's crush on an elementary school teacher starring Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman. It was a critical success.[18] Murray has since appeared in every Anderson film to date. In 2000, filmmaker Martin Scorsese praised Bottle Rocket and Rushmore.[19]

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) was Anderson's next comedy-drama film, about a successful artistic New York City family and its ostracized patriarch. It represented his greatest success until Moonrise Kingdom in 2012, earning more than $50 million in domestic box office receipts. The Royal Tenenbaums was nominated for an Academy Award and ranked by an Empire poll as the 159th greatest film ever made.[20]

Anderson in 2005

Anderson's next feature was The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) about a Jacques Cousteau-esque documentary filmmaker played by Bill Murray. It serves as a classic example of Anderson's style, but its critical reception was less favorable than his previous films, and its box office did not match the heights of The Royal Tenenbaums.[21] In September 2006, Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen released a tongue-in-cheek "letter of intervention" for Anderson's artistic "malaise" following the disappointing commercial and critical reception of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, proclaiming themselves to be fans of World Cinema and of Anderson in particular. They offered Anderson their soundtrack services for his The Darjeeling Limited, including lyrics for a title track.[22]

The Darjeeling Limited (2007) was about three emotionally distant brothers traveling together on a train in India. It reflected the more dramatic tone of The Royal Tenenbaums but faced criticisms similar to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Anderson has acknowledged that he went to India to film the movie partly as a tribute to Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, whose "films have also inspired all my other movies in different ways" (the film is dedicated to him).[23] The film starred Anderson staples Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson in addition to Adrien Brody, and the script was co-written by Anderson, Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola.[24]

In 2008, Anderson was hired to write the screenplay of the American adaptation of My Best Friend, a French film, for producer Brian Grazer; Anderson's first draft was titled "The Rosenthaler Suite".

Anderson's stop motion animation adaptation of the Roald Dahl book Fantastic Mr Fox was released in 2009. The film was highly praised and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, although not earning much more than its production budget.

2012–present

Anderson, Koyu Rankin, Liev Schreiber, Jeff Goldblum, and Kunichi Nomura at the Isle of Dogs press conference at Berlinale 2018

Following the critical success of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson made Moonrise Kingdom which opened at the Cannes Film Festival 2012.[25] The film was emblematic of Anderson's style, was a financial success, and earned Anderson another Academy Award nomination for his screenplay.

Anderson's next film, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), starred Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, F. Murray Abraham, and Saoirse Ronan, along with several of his regular collaborators including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman.[26] It is set in the 1930s and follows the adventures of M. Gustave, the hotel's concierge, making "a marvelous mockery of history, turning its horrors into a series of graceful jokes and mischievous gestures", according to The New York Times.[27] The film represented one of Anderson's greatest critical and commercial successes, grossing nearly $175 million worldwide and earning dozens of award nominations, including nine Oscar nominations with four wins.[28] These nominations also included his first for Best Director.

Anderson returned to stop motion animation with Isle of Dogs.[29] Production on the film started in the United Kingdom in October 2016, and it was released in select theaters on March 23, 2018, and wide on April 6, 2018.[30][31][32] The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score.[33] In August 2018, it was reported that Anderson is working on his next film, set in post-war France, and was set to begin filming at Angoulême, beginning in November 2018. Named The French Dispatch, the film stars Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, and Timothée Chalamet, and was previously scheduled to be released in July 2020, before being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic to October 2020, before being pulled from the schedule.[34][35][36][37][38]

Anderson has also created several notable short films. In addition to the original Bottle Rocket short, he made the Paris-set Hotel Chevalier (2007), which was created as a prologue to The Darjeeling Limited and starred Jason Schwartzman alongside Natalie Portman, and the Italy-set Castello Cavalcanti (2013),[39] which was produced by Prada and starred Jason Schwartzman as an unsuccessful race-car driver. Additionally, he has directed a number of television commercials for companies such as Stella Artois and Prada, including an elaborate American Express ad, in which he starred as himself.[40]

Directing techniques

Anderson's cinematic influences include François Truffaut, Louis Malle, Pedro Almodóvar,[41] Satyajit Ray,[42] John Huston, Mike Nichols, Hal Ashby,[43] Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, and Roman Polanski.[44] Anderson has a unique directorial style that has led several critics to consider him an auteur.[45][46][47][48]

Themes and stories

Anderson has chosen to direct mostly fast-paced comedies marked by more serious or melancholic elements, with themes often centered on grief, loss of innocence, dysfunctional families, parental abandonment, adultery, sibling rivalry and unlikely friendships. His movies have been noted for being unusually character-driven, and by turns both derided and praised with terms like "literary geek chic".[49][50] The plots of his movies often feature thefts and unexpected disappearances, with a tendency to borrow liberally from the caper genre.[51]

Visual style

Anderson has been noted for his extensive use of flat space camera moves, obsessively symmetrical compositions, knolling, snap-zooms, slow-motion walking shots, a deliberately limited color palette, and hand-made art direction often utilizing miniatures.[52] These stylistic choices give his movies a highly distinctive quality that has provoked much discussion, critical study, supercuts, mash-ups, and even parody. Many writers, critics, and even Anderson himself, have commented that this gives his movies the feel of being "self-contained worlds", or a "scale model household".[53] According to Jesse Fox Mayshark, his films have "a baroque pop bent that is not realist, surrealist or magic realist", but rather might be described as "fabul[ist]".[54] In 2019, the company Murals Wallpaper from the UK launched a line of wallpapers inspired by the visual design of Anderson's films.[55]

From The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou on, Anderson has relied more heavily on stop motion animation and miniatures, even making entire features with stop motion animation with Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs.[56]

Soundtracks

Anderson frequently uses pop music from the 1960s and '70s on the soundtracks of his films, and one band or musician tends to dominate each soundtrack. In Rushmore, Cat Stevens and British Invasion groups featured prominently, The Royal Tenenbaums included songs recorded by Nico, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was replete with David Bowie including both originals and covers performed by Seu Jorge, The Kinks appeared on the soundtrack for The Darjeeling Limited and Rushmore, The Beach Boys in Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Hank Williams for Moonrise Kingdom. (Much of Moonrise Kingdom is filled with the music of Benjamin Britten, which is tied to a number of major plot points for that film.)[57] The Darjeeling Limited also borrowed music styles from Satyajit Ray's films. The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is mostly set in the 1930s, is notable for being the first Anderson film to eschew using any pop music, and instead used original music composed by Alexandre Desplat. Its soundtrack won Desplat the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Score of the Year. The soundtracks for his films have often brought renewed attention to the artists featured, most prominently in the case of "These Days", which was used in The Royal Tenenbaums.[58]

Personal life

Anderson is in a relationship with Lebanese writer, costume designer and voice actress Juman Malouf.[59][60] Malouf gave birth to the couple's daughter, Freya, in 2016. She is named after a character from the film The Mortal Storm.[61][62][63]

Anderson lives in Paris but has spent the majority of his adult life in New York.[64][65][66] He is the brother of artist Eric Chase Anderson, who illustrated the Criterion Collection releases of some of Anderson's films (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited) and provided the voice of Kristofferson Silverfox in Fantastic Mr. Fox.[67]

Filmography

Feature films

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer	Notes
1996	Bottle Rocket	Yes		Yes	Co-written with Owen Wilson
1998	Rushmore	Yes	Executive	Yes
2001	The Royal Tenenbaums	Yes	Yes	Yes
2004	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Yes	Yes	Yes	Co-written with Noah Baumbach
2005	The Squid and the Whale		Yes
2007	The Darjeeling Limited	Yes	Yes	Yes	Co-written with Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Co-written with Noah Baumbach
2012	Moonrise Kingdom	Yes	Yes	Yes	Co-written with Roman Coppola
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Yes	Yes	Yes	Story co-written with Hugo Guinness
	She's Funny That Way		Executive
2017	Escapes		Executive		Documentary
2018	Isle of Dogs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Story co-written with Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Kunichi Nomura
2020	The French Dispatch	Yes	Yes	Yes	Story co-written with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness and Jason Schwartzman

Acting credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Bottle Rocket	Passenger on bus	Uncredited cameo
1998	Rushmore	Student
2001	The Royal Tenenbaums	Tennis match commentator
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Stan Weasel	Voice role
2016	Sing	Daniel / additional voices

Reception

Critical, public and commercial reception to Anderson's directorial features as of 4 February 2019.

Year	Film	Rotten Tomatoes[68]	Metacritic[69]	Budget	Box office[70]
1996	Bottle Rocket	85% (6.8/10 average rating) (66 reviews)	66 (24 reviews)	$7 million	$560,000
1998	Rushmore	89% (8.1/10 average rating) (103 reviews)	86 (32 reviews)	$9 million	$17.1 million
2001	The Royal Tenenbaums	80% (7.5/10 average rating) (207 reviews)	76 (34 reviews)	$21 million	$71.4 million
2004	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	56% (6.1/10 average rating) (206 reviews)	62 (38 reviews)	$50 million	$34.8 million
2007	The Darjeeling Limited	69% (6.6/10 average rating) (189 reviews)	67 (35 reviews)	$16 million	$35 million
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	92% (7.9/10 average rating) (231 reviews)	83 (34 reviews)	$40 million	$46.5 million
2012	Moonrise Kingdom	93% (8.2/10 average rating) (244 reviews)	84 (43 reviews)	$16 million	$68.3 million
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	91% (8.4/10 average rating) (287 reviews)	88 (48 reviews)	$25 million	$174.8 million
2018	Isle of Dogs	90% (8/10 average rating) (315 reviews)	82 (55 reviews)	N/A	$64.2 million
2020	The French Dispatch

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
1994	Bottle Rocket	Yes	Yes	Co-written with Owen Wilson shot in 1992, released in 1994.
2007	Hotel Chevalier	Yes	Yes	Prologue to The Darjeeling Limited, Starring Natalie Portman & Jason Schwartzman.
2012	Do You Like to Read?	Yes	Yes	Promote Moonrise Kingdom Starring Bob Balaban.
	Cousin Ben Troop Screening with Jason Schwartzman	Yes	Yes	Promote Moonrise Kingdom Starring Jason Schwartzman.

Commercials

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Company	Notes
2004	American Express: My Life, My Card	Yes	Yes	American Express	Starring Wes Anderson as himself and Jason Schwartzman.[71]
2008	Softbank	Yes		Softbank	Starring Brad Pitt Japanese commercial filmed in France
2010	Stella Artois: Apartomatic	Yes		Stella Artois	co-directed with Roman Coppola.
2012	Made of Imagination	Yes		Sony Xperia	stop-motion animation
2013	Prada: Candy	Yes		Prada	Starring Léa Seydoux co-directed with Roman Coppola.
	Castello Cavalcanti	Yes	Yes	Prada	starring Jason Schwartzman.
2016	Come Together: A Fashion Picture in Motion	Yes	Yes	H&M	starring Adrien Brody.

Recurring collaborators

Anderson's films feature many recurring actors, including the Wilson brothers (Owen, Luke, and Andrew), Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Wallace Wolodarsky, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Kumar Pallana, Bob Balaban, Adrien Brody and Tilda Swinton. Frequent co-writers include Roman Coppola (who has also served as a second unit director), Noah Baumbach (with Anderson also co-producing his own film The Squid and the Whale), Owen Wilson, Schwartzman and Hugo Guinness. Anderson has also worked frequently with producers Scott Rudin, Jeremy Dawson and Steven M. Rales. Robert Yeoman has served as director of photography for all of Anderson's live-action films, with Tristan Oliver handling cinematography for his two animated features. Mark Mothersbaugh composed Anderson's first four films, with Alexandre Desplat taking over for every film since Fantastic Mr. Fox. Randall Poster has served as music supervisor for all of Anderson's films since Rushmore.

Frequent actor collaborations (3 or more films)
Actor/actress	Bottle Rocket (1996)	Rushmore (1998)	The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)	The Darjeeling Limited (2007)	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	Moonrise Kingdom (2012)	The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)	Isle of Dogs (2018)	The French Dispatch (2020)	Total roles
Waris Ahluwalia											3
Bob Balaban											4
Adrien Brody											4
Seymour Cassel											3
Willem Dafoe											4
Jeff Goldblum											3
Anjelica Huston											5
Harvey Keitel											3
Frances McDormand											3
Bill Murray											9
Edward Norton											4
Kumar Pallana											4
Larry Pine											3
Jason Schwartzman											7
Fisher Stevens											3
Tilda Swinton											4
Andrew Wilson											3
Luke Wilson											3
Owen Wilson											8
Wally Wolodarsky											5

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

Year	Film	Category	Result	Ref.
2001	The Royal Tenenbaums	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated	[72]
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Best Animated Feature	Nominated	[73]
2012	Moonrise Kingdom	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated	[74]
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Best Picture	Nominated	[75]
		Best Director	Nominated	[75]
		Best Original Screenplay	Nominated	[75]
2018	Isle of Dogs	Best Animated Feature	Nominated	[76]

BAFTA Awards

Year	Film	Category	Result	Ref.
2001	The Royal Tenenbaums	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated	[77]
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Best Animated Film	Nominated	[78]
2012	Moonrise Kingdom	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Best Film	Nominated	[79]
		Best Direction	Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay	Won
2018	Isle of Dogs	Best Animated Film	Nominated	[80]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Film	Category	Result	Ref.
2005	The Squid and the Whale	Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Nominated	[81]
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Best Animated Feature	Nominated	[82]
2012	Moonrise Kingdom	Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Nominated	[83]
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel		Won	[84]
		Best Director	Nominated
		Best Screenplay	Nominated
2018	Isle of Dogs	Best Animated Feature Film	Nominated	[85]

Other awards

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
1996	MTV Movie Award	Best New Filmmaker	Bottle Rocket	Won
	Lone Star Film & Television Award	Debut of the Year		Won
1998	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	New Generation Award	Bottle Rocket & Rushmore	Won
1999	Lone Star Film & Television Award	Best Director	Rushmore	Won
		Best Writer		Won
	National Society of Film Critics	Best Screenplay		Won
	Independent Spirit Award	Best Director		Won
2001	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Screenplay[86]	The Royal Tenenbaums	Won
2002	Chicago Film Critics Association Award	Best Screenplay[87]		Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society	Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Phoenix Film Critics Society	Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Toronto Film Critics Association	Best Screenplay[88]		Nominated
	Writers Guild of America Award	Best Screenplay[89]		Nominated
2003	Bodil Award	Best American Film		Nominated
	DVD Premiere Award	Best Audio Commentary		Nominated
2005	Berlin International Film Festival	Golden Bear	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Nominated
	Golden Satellite Award	Best Screenplay		Nominated
2006	Independent Spirit Award	Best Feature	The Squid and the Whale	Nominated
2007	Gijón International Film Festival	Best Feature	The Darjeeling Limited	Nominated
	Venice International Film Festival	Golden Lion		Nominated
		Little Golden Lion		Won
2008	Bodil Award	Best American Film		Nominated
2009	National Society of Film Critics	Special Achievement Award	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Won
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Director		Nominated
	San Diego Film Critics Society	Best Screenplay		Won
	San Francisco Film Critics Circle	Best Screenplay		Won
	Southeastern Film Critics Association	Best Screenplay		Won
2010	Annie Award	Best Writing in a Feature Production		Won
		Directing in a Feature Production		Nominated
	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Central Ohio Film Critics Association	Best Screenplay		Nominated
	National Board of Review	Special Achievement Award		Nominated
	National Society of Film Critics	Best Director		Nominated
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Director		Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society	Best Screenplay		Won
	Producers Guild of America Award	Best Animated Feature Film		Nominated
	San Diego Film Critics Society	Best Screenplay		Won
	San Francisco Film Critics Circle	Best Original Screenplay		Won
2012	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or	Moonrise Kingdom	Nominated
	San Diego Film Critics Society	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
2013	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Best Original Screenplay[90]		Nominated
	Independent Spirit Award	Best Director[91]		Nominated
		Best Screenplay[91]		Nominated
2014	Berlin International Film Festival	Golden Bear	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Nominated
		Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear)[92]		Won
	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Director[93]		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Won
	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association	Best Director		Nominated
	David di Donatello	Best Foreign Film		Won
	Detroit Film Critics Society	Best Director[94]		Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Dublin Film Critics' Circle	Best Director[95]		Nominated
	Florida Film Critics Circle	Best Director[96]		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Won
	Indiana Film Journalists Association	Best Original Screenplay		Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Director[97]		Runner-up
		Best Screenplay		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Screenplay[98]		Won
	Phoenix Film Critics Society	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Won
	San Diego Film Critics Society	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	San Francisco Film Critics Circle	Best Original Screenplay[99]		Nominated
	Southeastern Film Critics Association	Best Director		2nd Place
		Best Original Screenplay		Won
	Washington D.C. Film Critics Association	Best Original Screenplay[100]		Nominated
	San Francisco Film Critics Circle[101]	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Won
	St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association	Best Director		Nominated
	Toronto Film Critics Association	Best Director[102]		Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Won
2015	Central Ohio Film Critics Association	Best Director		Runner-up
		Best Original Screenplay		Runner-up
	Alliance of Women Film Journalists	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Critics' Choice Movie Awards	Best Picture		Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
		Best Comedy		Won
	4th AACTA International Awards	Best Direction		Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Denver Film Critics Society	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Directors Guild of America Award	Outstanding Directing – Feature Film		Nominated
	Georgia Film Critics Association	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Houston Film Critics Society	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	London Film Critics' Awards	Director of the Year		Nominated
		Screenwriter of the Year		Won
	Location Managers Guild Awards	Outstanding Locations in Period Film		Won
	National Society of Film Critics	Best Screenplay		Won
	Oklahoma Film Critics Circle	Best Original Screenplay		Won
	Vancouver Film Critics Circle	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Won
	Writers Guild of America Award	Best Original Screenplay		Won
2016	Location Managers Guild Awards	Eva Monley Award	Self	Won
2018	Berlin International Film Festival	Silver Bear for Best Director	Isle of Dogs	Won
	SXSW Film Festival Audience Awards	Headliners		Won

Further reading

• "Special Issue: Wes Anderson, Austin Auteur". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 60 (2). 2018. ISSN 1534-7303.
• Seitz, Matt Zoller (2013). The Wes Anderson Collection. New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-9741-7.
• Browning, Mark (2011). Wes Anderson: why his movies matter. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger. ISBN 978-1-59884-352-1.
• "Special Issue: Wes Anderson & Co". New Review of Film and Television Studies. 10 (1). 2012. ISSN 1740-0309.
• MacDowell, James (2010). "Notes on Quirky" (PDF). Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism. Warwick University (1).
• Kunze, Peter C., ed. (2014). The films of Wes Anderson: Critical essays on an Indiewood icon. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-48692-2.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

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• Browning, Mark (2011). Wes Anderson: why his movies matter. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger. ISBN 978-1-59884-352-1.
• "Special Issue: Wes Anderson & Co". New Review of Film and Television Studies. 10 (1). 2012. ISSN 1740-0309.
• Seitz, Matt Zoller (2013). The Wes Anderson Collection. New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-9741-7.

External links

• Wes Anderson on IMDb
• Wes Anderson at AllMovie
• Wes Anderson at Unsung Films
• "Into The Deep", in-depth Anderson profile at The Guardian February 12, 2005
• "Wes Anderson", a brief profile by Martin Scorsese in Esquire.