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
Anna Orso She was also cast in the 2004 film, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", directed by Wes Anderson. At the time of her death in 2012, Orso was filming "The Girl from Nagasaki", a film adaptation of Madame Butterfly, directed by Michel Comte. Anna Orso died in a Rome hospital of an illness on August 14, 2012, at the age of 74. She was survived by her son, Umberto. Her remains were cremated, and a memorial service was scheduled for the library of cinema in Trastevere in September 2012. Anna Orso Anna Maria Orso (December 11, 1938 – August 14,