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Wes Anderson won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar at the 96th Academy Awards. It was his first Oscar win. He did not appear in person to accept the award due to his filming schedule.
Wes Anderson made silent films as a child using his father's Super 8 camera, with his brothers and friends as actors. His first feature, Bottle Rocket, was released in 1996 and was based on a short film he made with Luke and Owen Wilson, whom he met while attending the University of Texas at Austin.
The Grand Budapest Hotel, released in 2014, grossed nearly $175 million worldwide. It is also his most decorated film, earning nine Academy Award nominations and winning four Oscars, including Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, and Best Original Score.
Anderson's films frequently explore grief, loss of innocence, dysfunctional families, parental abandonment, adultery, sibling rivalry, and unlikely friendships. His plots often feature thefts and unexpected disappearances, drawing from the caper genre, and his work has been classified as postmodern due to its nostalgic detail and subversion of mainstream narrative conventions.
Anderson's recurring cast includes Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, and Jeff Goldblum. Robert Yeoman has served as director of photography on all of Anderson's live-action features, and Alexandre Desplat has composed music for six of his films. Anderson has co-written scripts with Noah Baumbach, Roman Coppola, and Hugo Guinness.
Rushmore and The Grand Budapest Hotel have both been inducted into the United States National Film Registry. Rushmore was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress in 2016.