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
Sigur Rós in the Cameron Crowe film "Vanilla Sky". The former two also subsequently appeared in the US version of the television series "Queer as Folk". Their music has also appeared in the TV series "24" with "Ný batterí", and "" with "Svefn-g-englar". In 2004, Wes Anderson used "Starálfur" in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" as did the Emmy-winning 2005 TV film "The Girl in the Café". In Enki Bilal's "Immortel (Ad Vitam)" the song "Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)" is used. The song "Svefn-g-englar" was also used on "V" on 24 November 2009, and features prominently in "Café de Flore"