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
Jeff Goldblum (1992), "Powder" (1995), "The Prince of Egypt" (1998), "Cats & Dogs" (2001), "Igby Goes Down" (2002), "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004), "Adam Resurrected" (2008), "Le Week-End" (2013), "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014), and "" (2017). He also starred in several TV series including the eighth and ninth seasons of "" as Zack Nichols. For directing the short film "Little Surprises", he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Goldblum was born and raised in West Homestead, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. His mother, Shirley Jane Goldblum ("née" Temeles; 30 October 1926 - 9