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
Robert Yeoman films including Gus Van Sant's "Drugstore Cowboy" — for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography — Noah Baumbach's "The Squid and the Whale", and Roman Coppola's "CQ". He has worked on every live action film by Wes Anderson, including "Bottle Rocket" (1996), "Rushmore" (1998), and "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001) as cinematographer, as well as "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004), "The Darjeeling Limited" (2007), "Moonrise Kingdom" (2012) and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014), credited as director of photography. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on "The Grand Budapest