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
Hugo Guinness films "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001) and "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004), and providing the voice of Nathan Bunce in "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (2009). Most recently, Guinness worked with Anderson on the story for "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014), which garnered him a shared nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2015, Guinness created an animated short film for J Crew to raise awareness of ivory poaching. Guinness also contributed to the BBC "Storyville" documentary "Hi Society – The Wonderful World of Nicky Haslam". Guinness lives in Brooklyn, New York City with his wife, the artist