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) litigation." Zissou represented Denver Broncos player Travis Henry in the 2007 matter of NFL re-testing of Henry's urine. In 2010, he was an attorney for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa, and made the motion, on the third day of jury deliberations, for declaring a hung jury. 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