Wes Anderson Royal Tenenbaums" was nominated for an Academy Award and ranked by an "Empire" poll as the 159th greatest film ever made. 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". 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
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars chart, and was his first number-one album. Described by Bowie as "Ziggy goes to America", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the US during the earlier part of the Ziggy tour. In 2004, Brazilian singer Seu Jorge contributed five cover versions of Bowie songs, three of them from "Ziggy Stardust", to the soundtrack for the film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou". Seu Jorge would later re-record the songs as a solo album called "The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions". On the album's liner notes, Bowie wrote "Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs in Portuguese I