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
Ennio Morricone song became a hit in several countries, selling over 790,000 copies in France only. The song was later included in movies such as "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" and in the video game "" as the closing theme as well as . In the same year, Morricone composed the score for the less-known drama "Maddalena" (1971) by the Polish film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz which included its composition 'Chi Mai'. The theme appeared on the million-selling score for Georges Lautner's "Le Professionnel" (1981), as well as the TV series, "An Englishman's Castle" (1978) and "The Life and Times of David