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
Steve Zissou (jurist) Steve Zissou (jurist) Steve Zissou (born 1955) is an American attorney, with a practice in Federal criminal law in the Bayside, Queens district of New York City. He was admitted to legal practice in New York State in 1983. Buena Vista Pictures contacted Zissou in the process of script clearance because of the match between the names. The two parties negotiated an agreement that includes confidential terms, and the closing titles of the film are said to include the wording "The filmmakers acknowledge that the real Steve Zissou is a prominent attorney in New York City specializing in complex federal